even though it's been supposedly added, it seems there's something missing. i've once edited the necessary files by hand, but you could easily make a patch against the those files as described here: http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_driver.cgi?driver=hl1250 i thought this was already fixed in bug #83279. whatever was fixed in that release, it's sadly not working for me: D [23/Jan/2006:11:16:12 +0100] [Job 3] AFPL Ghostscript 8.53 (2005-10-20) D [23/Jan/2006:11:16:12 +0100] [Job 3] Copyright (C) 2005 artofcode LLC, Benicia , CA. All rights reserved. D [23/Jan/2006:11:16:12 +0100] [Job 3] This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details. D [23/Jan/2006:11:16:12 +0100] [Job 3] Unknown device: hl1250 D [23/Jan/2006:11:16:12 +0100] [Job 3] Unrecoverable error: undefined in .uninst allpagedevice D [23/Jan/2006:11:16:12 +0100] [Job 3] Operand stack: D [23/Jan/2006:11:16:12 +0100] [Job 3] defaultdevice D [23/Jan/2006:11:16:12 +0100] [Job 3] renderer return value: 1 D [23/Jan/2006:11:16:12 +0100] [Job 3] renderer received signal: 1 D [23/Jan/2006:11:16:12 +0100] [Job 3] tail process done writing data to STDOUT D [23/Jan/2006:11:16:12 +0100] [Job 3] KID4 finished D [23/Jan/2006:11:16:12 +0100] [Job 3] Process dying with "Possible error on ren derer command line or PostScript error. Check options.", exit stat: 3 D [23/Jan/2006:11:16:12 +0100] [Job 3] Possible error on renderer command line o r PostScript error. Check options. D [23/Jan/2006:11:16:12 +0100] [Job 3] KID4 exited with status 0 D [23/Jan/2006:11:16:12 +0100] [Job 3] KID3 exited with status 3 D [23/Jan/2006:11:16:12 +0100] [Job 3] Renderer exit stat: 3 D [23/Jan/2006:11:16:12 +0100] [Job 3] Renderer process finished D [23/Jan/2006:11:16:12 +0100] [Job 3] Killing process 19025 (KID3) D [23/Jan/2006:11:16:12 +0100] [Job 3] Process dying with "Error closing rendere r", exit stat: 3 D [23/Jan/2006:11:16:12 +0100] [Job 3] Error closing renderer E [23/Jan/2006:11:16:12 +0100] PID 19023 stopped with status 3! D [23/Jan/2006:11:16:12 +0100] UpdateJob: job 3, file 0 is complete. i'd really appreciate it if you could fix this once and for all. this "bug" haunted me over a 1 1/2 years now and it took me ages to find out, why my printer won't do anything at all.
Can you please attach a patch for the ebuild?
what exactly should i do? i'm not familiar with ebuilds? or do you need a patch for the sources that need to be changed?
yes a source patch, please Do it like cp ghostscript-sources ghostscript-sources.orig -R cd ghostscript-sources.orig (do the magic that is needed) cd .. than create the patch: diff -ur ghostscript-sources.orig ghostscript-sources > patch
Created attachment 78054 [details, diff] needed to use hl1250 based printers this is my first patch, so please don't expect too much :D.
Created attachment 78211 [details] log output showing the error It does not compile for me that way :( Can you please have a look at the output? It is in german but judging by your email that should be no problem for you.
Created attachment 78228 [details, diff] the file is located in ghostscript-afpl/files i don't know if this is really a good idea, but the message on this position in the file clearly states to change it from 1 to 0. i think this might also be the problem, why printing with 1200x600 isn't really working here on my printer. then again, it gives me a headache anyways. again, only printing empty pages from firefox and doing nothing at all from within openoffice 2.0 even though i can print test testpage from the webinterface and the alignmargins script prints the file. windows->samba->cups->printer works too, but then again, this uses the windows drivers.
You could also just use ghostscript-esp. Why do you need -afpl?
i tried serveral ghostscript packages. afpl seemed to be the most advanced and still under development, so i ended up here. what does it matter anyways and why are there drivers thrown out of ghostscript?
I guess because of the license - afpl is commercial or rather anti-commercial. Maybe hl1250 code is not compatible with that. And I think -esp-8.15.1 is the most advanced, because that is the most recent opensource-developed ghostscript.
http://genstef.homelinux.org/ghostscript-afpl-8.53-r3.ebuild please try
ok, I added the ebuild - I hope it works.
