Opened 15 years ago
Closed 6 years ago
#4477 closed enhancement (no change required)
Serial port printer driver
| Reported by: | laplace | Owned by: | nobody |
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| Priority: | low | Milestone: | R1 |
| Component: | Drivers/Printers | Version: | R1/pre-alpha1 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Blocked By: | Blocking: | ||
| Platform: | All |
Description
A serial port printer driver may be needed to support old hardware.
Change History (5)
comment:1 by , 15 years ago
| Owner: | changed from to |
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| Status: | new → assigned |
follow-up: 3 comment:2 by , 13 years ago
comment:3 by , 13 years ago
Replying to pulkomandy:
Is there any kind of standard protocol for serial printers ? Gutenprint has support for some already, is that enough ?
Sorry the ticket is badly worded. What I meant was a device driver that makes the serial port available for a serial port printer transport add-on for example in /dev/printers/serial.
May be having this extra layer between the transport add-on and the "real" serial port device driver is not necessary at all. I think BeOS had this layer. That's way I suggested it here too. But our current USB transport add-on for example does not make use of such a layer (any more) and accesses the USB port directly.
comment:4 by , 13 years ago
| Owner: | changed from to |
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comment:5 by , 6 years ago
| Resolution: | → no change required |
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| Status: | assigned → closed |
PulkoMandy has been working on a serial-port printer driver entirely in user space, so it seems this is indeed not needed.
Is there any kind of standard protocol for serial printers ? Gutenprint has support for some already, is that enough ?