[NTLUG:Discuss] success storyr

[Kevin Brannen]

Charles Cashion wrote:

>
> Bruce,
> I do not know if this would be any help, but I found one ftp archive for
> Canon printers. It is
>
>     ftp://download.canon.jp/pub/driver/bj/linux/
>
> I found this at the suggestion of Kevin Brannen (11/25). I just went 
> back and searched for "3000" and there is nothing there.
>
> I might have got carried away with the downloads. I probably got more
> than I can use.
> 12/01/2005  02:54 PM            58,762 bjfilter-2.4-0.tar.gz
> 12/01/2005  02:56 PM            48,618 bjfiltercups-2.2-1.i386.rpm
> 12/01/2005  02:55 PM           847,218 bjfilterpixus550i-2.2-1.i386.rpm
> 12/01/2005  02:57 PM         1,070,181 guidepixus550i-2.2-1.tar.gz
> 12/01/2005  02:59 PM         1,070,181 guidepixus550i-3.2-1.tar.gz
> 12/01/2005  02:57 PM           193,598 guidepixus550icups-2.2-1.tar.gz
> 12/01/2005  02:58 PM           193,598 guidepixus550icups-3.2-1.tar.gz
> 12/01/2005  02:58 PM             2,745 readme-1.3-1.tar.gz
> In particular, the readme file is probably in Japanese.


Yes, those are the files I was steering you towards.  I'm glad you found 
them.  You need to install the 2 .rpm files.

> ...
> Leroy,
> How do you query the system to determine your video chipset?
> Charles


If you already have X running, look in either /var/log/XFree86.0.log or 
/var/log/Xorg.0.log (whichever you have on your system, unless yours is 
like mine in that I have both but one is a symlink to the other); it 
will tell in there.  If you don't have X running, try "X -probeonly" and 
look thru the output.  If you don't have any X server installed at all, 
you'll probably need some sort of probing software to find out.  Most of 
the install programs have one, or have a utility that does it for them.  
For example, on Suse you'd use /usr/X11R6/bin/sax2.  For other distros 
it will be different, others will have to give you pointers for them.

> PS When I worked for DSC Communications, all company printers were
> "PostScript" printers. Does anybody still make a "PostScript" printer?
> Is that one of those things that is prohibitively expensive?


"Prohibitively" is relative, :-) but see my other reply in this thread.

HTH,
Kevin