Subject: Re: Epson Stylus Color 480 SXU.
From: Iain Stevenson (iain@IainStevenson.com)
Date: Wed Aug 15 2001 - 05:21:57 MDT
Jose,
Kernels from terraplex are probably easier to use and will have the most
common options built in. You need to build your own kernel if additional
features are required by an application that you want to run or if you want
to use hardware for which support is not compiled into the terraplex kernel.
The first 2.4.x kernel release that was "officially" recognised as suitable
for ppc systems was 2.4.7. This is available from kernel.org. People like
Ben Herrenshmidt and Paul Mackerras do a great job on porting new features
to linux for ppc but their kernels may not be entirely stable - use at your
own risk!
Iain
on 13/8/01 8:00 pm, Jose M. at josemanuel@valux.org wrote:
> Hello!:
>
> Thanks a lot for your help, but I've back it to the shop, I've not found
> the way to put the ink cartidges to the printer!!!, a device without any
> button is a Windows-like one :((, so I'll wait and but a HP o anything
> better supported with Linux.
>
> Thanks a lot!!.
>
> Only a question please, why a ftp.terraplex.com... kernel? Can't I
> compile a "standard" kernel from ftp.kernel.org, or I need many
> patches???. It's something I can't understand...
>
> Regards.
> El dia Saturday 11 August 2001 19:15, Merrill Aldrich escribio:
>> % Hi Jose -
>> %
>> % Here is what I did to get my Epson 880 (USB) printer working -- it
>> might be useful % even if your printer is not USB:
>> %
>> % 1. Download and install the kernel from
>> % ftp://ftp.terraplex.com/pub/users/dburcaw/kernel-2.4.4-3b/
>> %
>> % 2. Reboot
>> %
>> % 3. Open a super user terminal window and add the printer and serial
>> port modules to % the kernel:
>> %
>> % insmod printer
>> % insmod macserial
>> %
>> % 4. Also as Super User, run printtool
>> %
>> % printtool&
>> %
>> % 5. Use the Add button to add a local printer. Under Input Filter, find
>> Epson in the % list on the left, then select a model close to yours on
>> the right. "stcany" (Stylus % Color Any Model) might be good to try.)
>> %
>> % 6. Close the dialog boxes, then choose restart lpd from the lpd menu
>> %
>> % 7. Choose "print postscript test page"
>> %
>> % I hope this is helpful!
>> %
>> %
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