Re: firewire, printing, and sound on iBook DV 2K
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 09:00:05AM -0500, thus said Phil Fraering:
> Using printtool, the Epson 1520 I have will finally print an
> ASCII test page. Although it doesn't seem to want to print a
> postscript test page or anything else other than straight to
> the port. Still, I can print something by cat'ing to
> /dev/usb/lp0, which is more than I could do before.
Check out http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/, it's the Gimp print plugin
project, but it also includes a Ghostscript and CUPS driver using the same
backend. This will give you print quality that is in the same class as the
native Epson drivers for Windows and Mac. In other words, it rocks.
It is a bit tricky to setup, but there are instructions how to make it work
with LPR, then you can just print postscript and the quality is _awesome_.
To do it in a smart way, you want to setup many printer aliases, all with
the same printer device, but with different options, so you can print to
glossy paper, inkjet paper, plain paper, with different DPI etc.
There is a debian package of it; it is called gs-stp. Good luck. I had it
setup once, but I dont think it works for me anymore (been updating stuff
since) - I mostly print from Gimp and it doesnt need the GS driver so it is not
that important for me at the moment. But I remember the printout was just
stunning quality.
> Finally, is anyone else using firewire on the mac? I had
> video1394.o compiled as a module, but it won't insert into
> the kernel.
I dont have any firewire devices, but using Ben's kernel tree
(linux-2.4-benh) from 2 weeks ago, version being 2.4.5-pre3, I get the
module inserted ok, and it seems to recognize the thing. However I dont
currently have any firewire devices. I am planning to buy a FW harddisk
though, so I can volunteer as a guinea pig in the near future. Any
recommendations on which ones should work on Linux?
This is my kernel.log when I modprobe video1394:
Jun 15 22:50:07 localhost kernel: ieee1394: registered ohci1394 driver,
initializing now
Jun 15 22:50:07 localhost kernel: ohci1394: looking for Ohci1394 cards
Jun 15 22:50:07 localhost kernel: PCI: Enabling device 06:0e.0 (0010 ->
0012)
Jun 15 22:50:07 localhost kernel: ohci1394_0: remapped memory spaces reg
0xd1844000
Jun 15 22:50:07 localhost kernel: ohci1394_0: allocated interrupt 40
Jun 15 22:50:07 localhost kernel: ohci1394_0: soft reset finished
Jun 15 22:50:07 localhost kernel: ohci1394_0: max packet size = 2048 bytes
Jun 15 22:50:07 localhost kernel: ohci1394_0: 4 iso receive contexts
available
Jun 15 22:50:07 localhost kernel: ohci1394_0: 4 iso transmit contexts
available
Jun 15 22:50:07 localhost kernel: ohci1394_0: Receive DMA ctx=0 initialized
Jun 15 22:50:07 localhost kernel: ohci1394_0: Receive DMA ctx=1 initialized
Jun 15 22:50:07 localhost kernel: ohci1394_0: AT dma ctx=0 initialized
Jun 15 22:50:07 localhost kernel: ohci1394_0: AT dma ctx=1 initialized
Jun 15 22:50:07 localhost kernel: ohci1394_0: Receive DMA ctx=2 initialized
Jun 15 22:50:07 localhost kernel: ohci1394_0: resetting bus on request
Jun 15 22:50:07 localhost kernel: ieee1394: detected 1 ohci1394 adapter
Jun 15 22:50:07 localhost kernel: ohci1394_0: irq_handler timeout
event=0x00020000
Jun 15 22:50:07 localhost kernel: ohci1394_0: PhyControl: 8003017F
Jun 15 22:50:07 localhost kernel: ohci1394_0: SelfID process finished (phyid
0, root)
Jun 15 22:50:07 localhost kernel: ohci1394_0: selfid packet 0x807f8452 rcvd
Jun 15 22:50:07 localhost kernel: ieee1394: including selfid 0x807f8452
Jun 15 22:50:07 localhost kernel: ohci1394_0: This node self-id is
0x807f8452
Jun 15 22:50:07 localhost kernel: ohci1394_0: calling self-id complete
Jun 15 22:50:07 localhost kernel: video1394: initialized with 1 ohci cards
Best wishes,
Tuomas
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