[ale] PSC 1350 and ptal

[Dow Hurst]

Cor,
Additional info on ptal:

Under suse90 I have these processes running upon finishing bootup and 
running ps auwx | grep ptal (watch out for line wrap here):

ptal-mlcd mlc:usb:officejet_d_series -devidmatch MDL:officejet d series; 
-devidmatch SN:SG21A210Y0RS; -device /dev/usb/lp0 /dev/usb/lp1 
/dev/usb/lp2 /dev/usb/lp3 /dev/usb/lp4 /dev/usb/lp5 /dev/usb/lp6 
/dev/usb/lp7

ptal-printd mlc:usb:officejet_d_series -morepipes 9 -like /dev/lp0

/sbin/startpar -f -- /etc/init.d/rc5.d/S13ptal


I also have these commands available in /usr/sbin to play with:
dhurst at sword:~> ls -l /usr/sbin/ptal*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         5083 2003-09-23 19:01 
/usr/sbin/ptal-cups
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        33936 2003-09-23 19:01 
/usr/sbin/ptal-init
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       188981 2003-09-23 19:02 
/usr/sbin/ptal-mlcd
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        21318 2003-09-23 19:02 
/usr/sbin/ptal-photod
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        16471 2003-09-23 19:02 
/usr/sbin/ptal-printd

A whole set of documentation is under:
/usr/share/doc/packages/hp-officeJet/

so maybe this will help you figure it out!
Dow


Cor van Dijk wrote:

>I have been halfway succesful in getting the hp psc1350 to work on
>redhat and suse ( kernel 2.40.20) with
>hpoj-0.91. That is,  the scanner works ok, but the printer part  refuses
>to work, does nor even seem connected.
>Rerunning "/ptal-init setup" as suggested on some FAQ- like
>interchanges, does not work.
>Bypassing the spooler with "cat > <filename>  /dev/usb/lp0" does
>nothing, although the driver is "raw", that is
>no driver. Same thing with the "hpijs" driver.
>Could this be a "cups" issue? I am probably missing something obvious.
>Can somebody help me out or point
>me in the right direction. TIA. Cor van Dijk.
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