[Foomatic] Please add my driver for the Lexmark X125 to the database
Mark Roth
markroth8 at yahoo.com
Tue Feb 17 05:34:45 PST 2004
Can anyone help answer this question? I'd really like to get this working but
am stuck without an answer.
Thanks,
Mark
In article <bvv7kv$g4r$1 at poblano.linuxprinting.org>, markroth8 at yahoo.com (Mark
Roth) writes:
>
> Hi Till,
>
> I'm in the process of trying my driver with Foomatic 3.0.1rc2 as you
suggested.
> I've run into a couple of issues.
>
> I'm running Red Hat 9. I rpm -e foomatic and then built and installed the
> packages you suggested. I was having a bit of trouble with
foomatic-db-engine.
> In particular I had to ln -s /usr/include/gnome-xml /usr/include/libxml and
> manually add -lxml to the XML_LIBS in Makefile. After I did this, I got
> everything to build and install with no noticeable errors. I'm using
> libxml-1.8.17-8 so this might have something to do with it.
>
> In any event, my main problem is that I installed my driver .xml files and
I'm
> having trouble with my opt/drv_x125-Device.xml option file. The file looks
> like this:
>
> -----
> <option type="enum" id="opt/drv_x125-Device">
> <!-- A multilingual <comments> block can appear here, too;
> it should be treated as documentation for the user. -->
> <arg_longname>
> <en>Device</en>
> </arg_longname>
> <arg_shortname>
> <en>Device</en><!-- backends only know <en> shortnames! -->
> </arg_shortname>
> <arg_execution>
> <arg_order>100</arg_order>
> <arg_spot>A</arg_spot>
> <arg_substitution />
> <arg_proto>%s</arg_proto>
> </arg_execution>
> <constraints>
> <constraint sense='true'>
> <driver>drv_x125</driver>
> <printer>printer/Lexmark-X125</printer><!-- Lexmark X125 -->
> <arg_defval>ev/drv_x125-dev_usb_lp0</arg_defval>
> </constraint>
> </constraints>
> <enum_vals>
> <enum_val id="ev/drv_x125-dev_usb_lp0">
> <ev_longname><en>/dev/usb/lp0</en></ev_longname>
> <ev_shortname><en>/dev/usb/lp0</en></ev_shortname>
> <ev_driverval>/dev/usb/lp0</ev_driverval>
> </enum_val>
> <!-- ... more options ... -->
> </enum_vals>
> </option>
> -----
>
> This used to work in foomatic-2.0.2-15.1 but when I do this today, my driver
> gets passed the string /dev/usb/lp0//dev/usb/lp0
>
> I modified the default option as follows, just so I could see what is going
on:
>
> -----
> <enum_val id="ev/drv_x125-dev_usb_lp0">
> <ev_longname><en>/dev/usb/lp0a</en></ev_longname>
> <ev_shortname><en>/dev/usb/lp0b</en></ev_shortname>
> <ev_driverval>/dev/usb/lp0c</ev_driverval>
> </enum_val>
> -----
>
> I then get /dev/usb/lp0b//dev/usb/lp0a
>
> Of course I'm expecting to just get /dev/usb/lp0c.
>
> Now when I change the longname to something without slashes, like:
>
> -----
> <enum_val id="ev/drv_x125-dev_usb_lp0">
> <ev_longname><en>foo</en></ev_longname>
> <ev_shortname><en>bar</en></ev_shortname>
> <ev_driverval>/dev/usb/lp0</ev_driverval>
> </enum_val>
> -----
>
> ... then everything works. I can even print!
>
> Is this behavior correct? Are there restrictions on the ev_longname and
> ev_shortname options in terms of being able to have a slash there? I'd
really
> like to have the long/short name match the value in ev_driverval. I'm also
> getting strange error messages from foomatic-config when configuring the
queue,
> like:
>
> -----
> Use of uninitialized value in split at
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Foomatic/DB.pm line 348.
> Use of uninitialized value in split at
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Foomatic/DB.pm line 350.
> Use of uninitialized value in split at
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Foomatic/DB.pm line 348.
> Use of uninitialized value in split at
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Foomatic/DB.pm line 350.
> Use of uninitialized value in split at
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Foomatic/DB.pm line 348.
> Use of uninitialized value in split at
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Foomatic/DB.pm line 350.
> Use of uninitialized value in split at
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Foomatic/DB.pm line 348.
> Use of uninitialized value in split at
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Foomatic/DB.pm line 350.
> Use of uninitialized value in split at
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Foomatic/DB.pm line 2230.
> Use of uninitialized value in split at
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Foomatic/DB.pm line 2230.
> Use of uninitialized value in substitution (s///) at
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Foomatic/DB.pm line 3361.
> Use of uninitialized value in substitution (s///) at
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Foomatic/DB.pm line 3362.
> Use of uninitialized value in substitution (s///) at
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Foomatic/DB.pm line 3363.
> Use of uninitialized value in substitution (s///) at
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Foomatic/DB.pm line 3364.
> Use of uninitialized value in substitution (s///) at
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Foomatic/DB.pm line 3361.
> Use of uninitialized value in substitution (s///) at
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Foomatic/DB.pm line 3362.
> Use of uninitialized value in substitution (s///) at
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Foomatic/DB.pm line 3363.
> Use of uninitialized value in substitution (s///) at
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Foomatic/DB.pm line 3364.
> Use of uninitialized value in substitution (s///) at
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Foomatic/DB.pm line 3361.
> Use of uninitialized value in substitution (s///) at
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Foomatic/DB.pm line 3362.
> Use of uninitialized value in substitution (s///) at
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Foomatic/DB.pm line 3363.
> Use of uninitialized value in substitution (s///) at
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Foomatic/DB.pm line 3364.
> Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Foomatic/DB.pm line 3366.
> Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Foomatic/DB.pm line 3366.
> Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Foomatic/DB.pm line 3366.
> Use of uninitialized value in substitution (s///) at
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Foomatic/DB.pm line 3381.
> -----
>
> Is this something to do with my version of libxml? I'd like my choice to
read
> /dev/usb/lp0 and not 'foo' or 'bar'. How can I fix this issue?
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
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