cups with foomatic
Tony Allen
Soulsurfer at SoulsurfersRealm.com
Wed Dec 31 20:54:14 PST 2003
Hi,
I'm trying to get my USB hp psc 2110 to work with freebsd and I've run into a
wall. At first I thought it was a matter of installing the newest cups and
cups-base but then I found out that most drivers weren't in the
administration for cups through http://localhost:631. Then I read about
foomatic-db and foomatic-db-engine ports. I installed both of those but the
correct printer still didn't show up in the cups setup.
After being unable to find the answer to the foomatics riddle, I downloaded
the ppd file from linuxprinting.org for my printer and copied it to
/usr/local/share/cups/model/.
I read that I needed foomatic-filters, i.e. - foomatic-rip and
foomatic-gswrapper, so i built from source that i downloaded from
linuxprinting.org. I copied foomatic-rip and foomatic-gswrapper to
/usr/local/bin like the directions i read said to do.
(by the way, if you're curious about the directions i read, here's the link:
http://webs.tconline.net/softedges/linux/cugbsd4.html )
At any rate, after copying the ppd file, i did see my printer model in the
cups setup, but when i try to send a job to it, nothing happens. I set the
cupsd.conf to debug and looked at the error_log but couldn't find what was
happening wrong. the only thing I saw was that the locale LC_ALL isn't set,
so it went to standard locale "C". and the printing ended D
[31/Dec/2003:18:26:08 -0800] StopJob: printer state is 3
I'm not sure if 3 is a good state or bad state.
I dont want to make the message too long by including my error log, but you
can look at part of it at www.soulsurfersrealm.com/error_log
I'm not very good at undersatnding everything so I only cut as much out as i
thought could be disregarded.
One last thing, I'm not sure if i have to do something else to make it work
but does the ppd file automatically call for the program it needs, in this
case hpijs?
Thanks for your help!
Tony
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