Is somebody perhaps working on that ?
I think Grant's idea is very good of maintaining a ghostscript
printer database and his idea to make apsfilter aware of
connected printer type. In FreeBSD possibly some infrastructure
is missing. Please look his comments about how Linux folks implemented
this.
I think it would be fine, if we could be compatible with Linux
to do the printer auto recognition via IEEE parport probe strings.
Is there some work in the pipeline or has somebody interest to
implement it. Perhaps some code from Linux can be used ?
See http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/#2
for general information about the printer database.
Cc'd to Marcel since he does Linux Emulation.
Cc'd to Grant, that he can perhaps exchange infos with Marcel.
Thanks
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Hi there. I maintain the Linux Printing HOWTO and an associated
printer compatibility database, and I'd like to add a feature to
apsfilter.
The database contains IEEE parport probe strings, and driver
information, for many printers. It seems like it should be possible
to have apsfilter automatically identify connected printers and
drivers by connecting the autoprobe info and the compatibility list.
I want to mangle this feature in.
For a little background, see the database, notes and example_script at
http://gatekeeper.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/#2
So my questions are:
- What version of apsfilter should I sit down and play with? 5.1.2?
A development snapshot from somewhere?
- Does FreeBSD report the parport probe info for attached printers,
and how? In Linux 2.2, for example, the ID strings appear in the
file /proc/parport/<n>/autoprobe.
- Any opinions on how this should be implemented?
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