wetterau
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Posted: Mar. 09 2005,00:30 |
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Hi, just to finish the story--tried many combinations of drivers as su with no success. Downloaded SimplyMEPIS 3.3. which failed to find my wireless card (which works perfectly with DSL) but did have a Brother HL1430 driver to use in configuring the printer. Printing didn't work with that either, using the parallel port in the ThinkPad. But it DID work using a usb cable to the printer. I thought I was on to something and reloaded DSL to reconfigure for printing over the usb cable. I got the same results as using the parallel port--blinking data light and write error messages. Conclusion: DSL is fantastic and getting better with each release, but printing is still not possible unless your printer will work with one of the drivers listed in apsfilter choice 4 (the stp drivers for gimpprint (apsfilter relies on ghostscript for its drivers)). Fortunately, many printers will work, but this is an area which might be improved in a future release. For instance, the driver that would have solved everything for me was in the "IBM omni" choice listed in apsfilter but not compiled in ghostscript.
Would it be possible to have a mydsl download choice for a ghostscript binary that contains all the drivers listed in apsfilter? If so, one download could save a lot of trouble for those who need drivers not in choice 4. Thanks for your help.
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