cups woes

qanopus · 04-28-2003, 06:42 AM

Hi there.
I have a epson stylus c62 I want to get working under linux. Bt there are problems
I installed cups 1.1.18 from soucre. I also installed gimp-print 4.2.5. I can print images from the gimp, but I can't print any thing else.
In the file :/var/log/cups/error_log i can read :

Code:

E [28/Apr/2003:15:20:05 +0200] Unable to convert file 0 to printable format for job 34!
I [28/Apr/2003:15:20:05 +0200] Hint: Do you have ESP Ghostscript installed?

I do have EPS ghost script installed. This is the output of "gs -v"

Code:

ESP Ghostscript 7.05.5 (2002-09-02)
Copyright (C) 2002 artofcode LLC, Benicia, CA.  All rights reserved.

What's going on? I set the log level of cups to debug, but I don't get eny wiser from the error_log file. I can connect to the cups server fine. Browsing to "http://localhost:631" works as expected.
Maby EPS gs can't, for some reason convert file to printeble formats. How can I check if it is able to do some my self? I installed xpdf and it can display pdf files. How ever, when I do :

Code:

bash-2.05a# gs -q -dSAFER -sDEVICE=epsonc /home/sohail/scriptie.pdf 
Error: /invalidfileaccess in --.outputpage--
Operand stack:
   1   true
Execution stack:
   %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   false   1   %stopped_push   1   3   %oparray_pop   1   3   %oparray_pop   --nostringval--   2   1   22   --nostringval--   %for_pos_int_continue   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   0   9   %oparray_pop   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--
Dictionary stack:
   --dict:1047/1123(ro)(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:72/200(L)--   --dict:72/200(L)--   --dict:97/127(ro)(G)--   --dict:229/230(ro)(G)--   --dict:19/24(L)--   --dict:4/6(L)--   --dict:22/31(L)--
Current allocation mode is local
ESP Ghostscript 7.05.5: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1

I don't know if this has any thing to do with it
ANY help would be apreciated.

jharris · 04-28-2003, 07:04 AM

Did you install ESP Ghostscript yourself? If so did you includes the --with-drivers=ALL option so you definately got the necessary drivers?

cheers

Jamie...

qanopus · 04-28-2003, 07:43 AM

Hello. Yes, I installed EPS gs my self. I configured like this :

./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-gimp-print

I'l recompile with the " --with-drivers=ALL" option and see what hapens.

jharris · 04-28-2003, 08:00 AM

The default location for EPS gs is /usr/local - I'm not sure if you'll need to tell CUPS where to find it if its not in this location.

cheers

Jamie...

qanopus · 04-28-2003, 08:31 AM

Well, it worked partially. I can print a text file by doing

"lp -s -d printer -o raw some.txt"

And I don't have that "Do you have ESP Ghostscript installed? " thing in my error_log file any more. But going to "localhost:631" I see the jobs it tell it to do, are abored immediatly. This means I can't print any thing other than pictures (from the gimp) and raw text file. But things like pdf don't work.
Looking at the error_log file, I see things like :

Code:

D [28/Apr/2003:17:26:30 +0200] [Job 51] pw = 594.0, pl = 783.0
D [28/Apr/2003:17:26:30 +0200] [Job 51] PageLeft = 9.0, PageRight = 603.0
D [28/Apr/2003:17:26:30 +0200] [Job 51] PageTop = 792.0, PageBottom = 9.0
D [28/Apr/2003:17:26:30 +0200] [Job 51] PageWidth = 612.0, PageLength = 792.0
d [28/Apr/2003:17:26:30 +0200] PID 11546 exited with no errors.

So it did do something, but effectifly, I still can't print the way I should be.

jharris · 04-28-2003, 08:55 AM

And there nothing before that text in the log to indicate any problems?

Jamie...

qanopus · 04-28-2003, 09:02 AM

Yes, succes!!!
This is what happend. Somehow there was a nother error log file called error_log.0.
I really don't know how that happend, but, looking at that I saw it coulden't load the gimp-print library. So i did "ldconfig", deleted the printer and reinstalled it again. And, succes. It printed a test page.
Thanks a million jharris

jharris · 04-28-2003, 09:20 AM

No probs. I've banged my head against a few walls in the part sorting out off CUPS errors. Once its going though its really worth it.

Jamie...