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  • From: sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] Printing scanned files
  • Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 04:36:20 +0000 (UTC)

On Tue, 22 Mar 2005, David Moberg wrote:

----- Original Message -----
From: "sindi keesan" <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>

Then gs would not print (in linux or in DOS - I am starting to
suspect the 'new' Virge, which also scrambles the VGA screen
hopelessly when you exit any svgalib program, need to reboot, and
resizecons is having lots of problems on this hardware - the other
three terminals stop being usable when you resize the font on one).

Whoa. So it's a good idea to stay away from the Virge?

Actually I goofed as regards svgalib. When I removed 'chipset XVESA' from the svgalib config file Virge worked perfectly with svgalib.

The ATI card, on the other hand, appears to be a Mach 64, because it works terribly (stripey effect as Mach64, displays properly with chipset VESA but crashes on exit, all terminals blank).

The ATI Mach64 works fine with resizecons as far as switching between modes, whereas the Virge repeatedly crashes (won't even reboot) when you switch from 80x25 to 80x30, 80x50 to 80x25, and several others. The ATI does NOT work well at all in 100 or 132 column mode - it displays as something that resembles 40x12 spread all over the page (double-width characters, but 132 of them?) instead (at least on this one computer where all the other cards worked).

So I do not recommend EITHER the Virge or the ATI for use with different numbers of columns and/or rows.

The S3 worked just fine, so did the Trident and Tseng.

I have four Virge cards. The one in the computer with just VGA works perfectly with resizecons. The other two, in a computer with an MDA card, even without running mdacon (to display some terminals as MDA), have the same problem with crashing resizecons.

Once I figure out why my modem stopped working when I changed video cards three times, I will test out one of the crashing Virges in a computer without MDA, and also test the fourth card out, both with resizecons. Maybe the MDA card is the problem, or maybe this particular motherboard is incompatible with Virge. It is unique in working with 32MB SIMMs so perhaps memory allocation is peculiar.

I left a Virge in the first computer so that I could use Opera at 1280 dpi with wide websites. The Trio64 only does 8-bit color at 1280 and I am using Xvesa. I might switch to the S3 X server instead.

Is there any non-X image printing program for linux?

Do the netpbm tools count?
They would if I could compile them. I may try, and yell for help on how to do this statically so everyone in the list can use them.


I can't print
images in X as root or get Xvesa with rxvt working as user. You
should not need to view what you are printing so why X?

Can't you just kill X and print?

Is there some way to print CLI with xv?

I will try gs with Trio64 instead of Virge video card when I crawl under the desk again to take apart the computer to plug the cable back into Com2. And also try it on the computer with a Virge that is working correctly.

In both linux and DOS gs -sDEVICE=deskjet keeps displaying to the screen instead of printing on my computer with two video cards where VIRGE is crashing with resizecons. The gs problem might somehow be related to the resizecons problem. I tried two versions of DOS gs both of which worked on another computer.

I think I am going to need to learn to compile netpbm.

I'll try and compile it. Check my website tomorrow for the binaries.

It would take me a month. Can you do it statically?
Remind us of your URL. Perhaps James could link to it or copy your files to his site.

Should it go away when you type reset?

Not necessarily. I have experienced a similar problem with programs
that directly touch the video hardware. Often you need to change the
video mode to reset everything. Reset merely resets your terminal
settings, it doesn't touch the Linux console interface.

When resizecons crashes with the Virge, I cannot change the video mode again. Blank screen, computer does not respond to anything I type, and
I cannot even reboot.

On other cards than Virge, sometimes resizing the console loses me the MDA cursor but it comes back when I resize again to 80x25.

Tseng and Trident seemed to both work just fine but they only go to
1280, and S3 to 1600. Just found a free 1600 dpi monitor. I would
use the Trio64V but it does not provide enough colors to do Opera
with Xvesa at even 1280 (needs 15-bit color).

I should learn to set up the S3 X server and use it at 1280 8-bit.

I would like to squash this color problem once and for all, by adding
an option to Xvesa that allows you to simulate more colors to programs
that connect to it. Probably just a dream, but maybe it is possible.

What do you mean by this? Fool Opera and Abiword into thinking they have 15-bit color when they have 4-bit?

Is anyone still working on XVESA, the 8-bit color problem? Or has it been abandoned for fb?

David




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