Re: Print trouble
On Thursday 30 June 2005 20:13, antongiulio05 wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a epson stylus c86 with KOWA driver installed. When I try to print
> with KILE or KDVI print doesn't start: job error in localhost:631. If I use
> Kprinter sometime works other not.
I believe you may have run afoul of Epson's filthy little secret -- the one
they are so ashamed of that they feel the need to disguise it.
The Epson-KOWA printer drivers contain a closed-source portion written for
80486-type, 32-bit processors -- a .so file, to be specific. I'm sure there
are other, better {i.e. open source} drivers that you could use with this
printer. {There is a school of thought that says an open source driver which
supported only a single, slow text mode would be better than a closed source
driver ..... } Or better printers {i.e. ones that come with open source
drivers}.
Alternatively, it may be considered "reasonable force" to take a disassembler
to the closed-source binary portion and rewrite it for 64-bit {and maybe
PowerPC as well}. It would be hard work, though. Make sure you set up some
Plausible Deniability if you plan to do this.
--
AJS -- Microsoft free and proud of it since 2002
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