Bug 359823 – net-print/splix: please update to current snapshot

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Thomas 2011-03-21 18:06:58 UTC]

Quite a few new (and not-so-new) printers have been added to splix recently.  Ubuntu also offers a package for the 20110219 snapshot.  The svn repository hasn't changed since.  I compiled these snapshot sources and installed them.  Apart from a few compiler warnings everything worked smooth and cups seems to cooperate with a Samsung ML 1910 monochrome laser printer now.

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Bernard Cafarelli 2011-03-29 10:04:32 UTC]

Thanks for the bugreport and reminder! After the new patches in june, I thought a new version would be released soon, but some time has passed since then

I have added splix-2.0.0_p20110219 to tree, can you test and confirm it works with your printer?

[Comment 2 Thomas 2011-03-29 15:41:54 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> I have added splix-2.0.0_p20110219 to tree, can you test and confirm it works
> with your printer?

Thanks a lot!  It compiled fine, i will check it out later.  But i suspect, there is a '+' missing in the module.mk sed statement:

        sed -e "/[a-z]_LDFLAGS/s/:=.*/:= $\{LDFLAGS\}/" -i module.mk \

should probably read

        sed -e "/[a-z]\+_LDFLAGS/s/:=.*/:= $\{LDFLAGS\}/" -i module.mk \

(and i am not sure, if it is wise to remove the cups-LDFLAGS this way).

[Comment 3 Thomas 2011-04-25 20:36:25 UTC]

Please ignore the remark about the sed script abv, i will read your regex more carefully next time. ;-)

I tried your new driver with the abv. mentioned Samsung ML 1910, it seems to work perfectly well.

There is one wish left: the number of threads are set to two, it would be nice, if this could be configure or would be read e. g. from kernel configuration.

Thanks a lot for providing us with the new driver.

[Comment 4 Bernard Cafarelli 2011-04-26 14:15:44 UTC]

Thanks for confirmation!

Even better, a configuration/runtime option for threads would be nice... Either way it's in my todo list for splix

[Comment 5 Thomas 2011-06-10 21:47:22 UTC]

splix-2.0.0_p20110219-r1 does not work.  I don't know exactly if this is because of the newer ghostscript version or if it is a problem with the PPDs: trying to print the test page yields an "invalid type application/postscript" error.

This happens for printers working fine with splix-2.0.0 (like Dell Laser Printer 1100) as well as with newer printers like Samsung ML 2580N, which works fine with splix-2.0.0_p20110219.

Should we open a new bug for this?