So I was on 12.2 only very briefly with this system before discovering that my new hardware required 13.0 in order to run Xorg.
But I could have sworn that lpt0 was recognized under 12.2. Under 13.0, it is not. No ppbus0 at all.
(E.g. /dev/lpt0 does not exist, not in dmesg, etc.)
So I thought, well, I can get with the 21st century and use USB, and indeed it's promptly recognized:
And then /etc/printcap (where I just add the 'u' in front of lpt0 from my old printcap that worked in earlier versions):
So what happens?
Well, this is a postscript printer, but it seems I can't get e.g. firefox or xpdf to generate postscript anymore! All they offer me is PDF files, and then there's no way to print a PDF. (If I try with 'lpr' directly, I get many pages of gibberish.)
At first I thought my printer wasn't working right, or I was doing something wrong, but now I'm realizing that ways to generate postscript are disappearing. There's no pdf2ps anymore either, etc.
So I'm confused. What is going on?
But I could have sworn that lpt0 was recognized under 12.2. Under 13.0, it is not. No ppbus0 at all.
(E.g. /dev/lpt0 does not exist, not in dmesg, etc.)
So I thought, well, I can get with the 21st century and use USB, and indeed it's promptly recognized:
Code:
Oct 11 15:37:16 pangkur kernel: ugen0.2: <Hewlett-Packard hp LaserJet 1320 series> at usbus0
Oct 11 15:37:16 pangkur kernel: ulpt0 on uhub0
Oct 11 15:37:16 pangkur kernel: ulpt0: <Hewlett-Packard hp LaserJet 1320 series, class 0/0, rev 1.10/1.00, addr 1> on usbus0
Oct 11 15:37:16 pangkur kernel: ulpt0: using bi-directional mode
Code:
lp|local line printer:\
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:lp=/dev/ulpt0:sd=/var/spool/output/lpd:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:
Well, this is a postscript printer, but it seems I can't get e.g. firefox or xpdf to generate postscript anymore! All they offer me is PDF files, and then there's no way to print a PDF. (If I try with 'lpr' directly, I get many pages of gibberish.)
At first I thought my printer wasn't working right, or I was doing something wrong, but now I'm realizing that ways to generate postscript are disappearing. There's no pdf2ps anymore either, etc.
So I'm confused. What is going on?