Re: old story ... debian on a beige G3
> I have it running on a G3/300, booting with quik from an Apple UW SCSI > card. But I do seem to be the only one > > Anybody knows? I tried to get quik to boot a G3/266 with no luck. Eventually, I went the BootX route and put my battle with quik on hold. I'd love to hear someone's method for successfully making the G3 a debian only machine. wasting space with os9, Matt -- Matt Richardson Instructional Support Technician Department of Art California State University San Bernardino [EMAIL PROTECTED] (909)880-7727
Re: Canon i950 printer ppd file
- Original Message - From: Kim Cascone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Friday, March 18, 2005 5:48 pm Subject: Canon i950 printer ppd file > I'm trying to get my DebianPPC iBook hooked up to a Canon i950 (via > a > USB connection; not over a network - yet) > I ran the Gnome CUPS manager and it's looking for a ppd file for > the > printer...none are to be found in either the foomatic db or the > library > for CUPS > I looked on the canon ftp site and only found drivers for i386 > availableq: do the .exe's in the canon ftp downloads contain ppd > files?if so, and these are text files is there any modification > that needs to > be done to get them to work on a ppc? > if the canon ftp exe's do not contain ppd files then can someone > point > me to where I might find one for the Canon i950 printer? > or is there a ppd for another Canon model that would work with some > mods? > btw: I've already trawled the linuxprinting.org site for info... > thanks in advance > KIM > Check out http://linuxprinting.org/kpfeifle/LinuxKongress2002/Tutorial/III.PostScript-and-PPDs/III.PostScript-and-PPDs.html and http://linuxprinting.org/ppd-doc.html The short version is that you can use a Windows ppd. The second link says that a ppd for Win NT is preferable, but other sources just said Windows in general. Put the file in /usr/share/cups/model/ and give it a whirl. Matt also having issues with Canon printers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Canon i950 printer ppd file
- Original Message - From: Kim Cascone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Saturday, March 19, 2005 12:01 pm Subject: Re: Canon i950 printer ppd file > > On Mar 19, 2005, at 10:53 AM, MATT RICHARDSON wrote: > > > The short version is that you can use a Windows ppd. > great! so you can use a WindowsNT ppd on a PPC machine? > > > The second link > > says that a ppd for Win NT is preferable, but other sources just > said> Windows in general. Put the file in /usr/share/cups/model/ > and give it > > a whirl. > OK so now where do I get a Windows ppd for a Canon i950? nothing > available thru linuxprinting.org... > Use the Canon install media, there's probably a ppd file in the folder created by the .exe, so you'd have to run it and check. Canon has the driver for windows available for download on their site. This thread has some relevant info as well: http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/topic-23872.html Google is your friend :) Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Canon i950 printer ppd file
- Original Message - From: Tommy Trussell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sunday, March 20, 2005 4:51 am Subject: Re: Canon i950 printer ppd file > > On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 21:29:46 -0800, MATT RICHARDSON > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mar 19, 2005, at 10:53 AM, MATT RICHARDSON wrote: > > > > > > > The short version is that you can use a Windows ppd. > > > great! so you can use a WindowsNT ppd on a PPC machine? > ... > > This thread has some relevant info as well: > > > > http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/topic-23872.html > > There's apparently some (Japanese?) CUPS software involved here... > > ftp://download.canon.jp/pub/driver/bj/linux/ > > Remember, with CUPS you not only need the PPD, but you need the right > "Back End" driver that converts from Postscript to the raster format > of the printer. > > So apparently somebody at Canon is developing "linux-friendly" > drivers. Thanks for the pick-up on the back end driver. I've been lucky enough to have post script laser printers to deal with and forget that the inkjets need a bit more to get going. Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
