Printing and Scanning with Canon Pixma/Pixus Series

ColinK · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 30 Dec 2005 Posts: 142

Hi

Inspired by HOWTO - Canon ... I began writing my first ebuild (two days ago).

I visited ftp://download.canon.jp and discovered the file "bfilter-common-2.50-2.src.rpm

Because I had a lot of trouble with my brand-new Canon Pixma MP 780 myself (after migrating from XP 4 month' ago), I was motivated to contribute something to the solution of this problem. I didn't believe to be successful actually - nor that fast.

Well that's why I'm proud to present my first ebuild (for ~x86 and ~amd64)

>> Visit Canon Pixma Series on gentoo-wiki.com <<

Or get the ebuilds directly:
> scanning: media-gfx/sane-pixma
> printing: net-print/bjfilter & net-print/cnijfilter
> + printing on amd64: app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-bjdeps

yabbadabbadont · Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 12:24 am Post subject:

Thanks for giving back. Now if I could only figure out if my i900D is compatible with any of the drivers provided... so far, the only thing I've found are commercial drivers from Germany. I would pony up the dough, but I have win2k running inside vmware when I need that printer. Oh well, at least my Brother HL-1440 works perfectly in linux.

Again, thanks and keep up the good work.
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ColinK · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 30 Dec 2005 Posts: 142

I searched for "canon printhead i900D". I discovered that the i900D, i905D, Pixma ip6000D printers use the same printhead. But it seems to be a different printhead as in any of the printers these drivers are designed for.

yabbadabbadont · Posted: Fri Mar 31, 2006 2:41 am Post subject:

Thanks for the information. I never thought of including "printhead" in my searches.
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Eugene33 · Apprentice Joined: 14 Nov 2004 Posts: 167 Location: Lyon

Hi Colink,
Many thanks for your effort, I'm desperatly trying to run my canon 560 on my AMD64 and still no result, so I gave a try to your ebuild, just copied and run...this is the result I get. I hope this will help you

bladus · Apprentice Joined: 27 Jul 2005 Posts: 233

Thanks for the ebuild, i also tryed it with my amd64 and pixma4000 and get the following error:

ColinK · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 30 Dec 2005 Posts: 142

@Eugene33:

Eugene33 · Apprentice Joined: 14 Nov 2004 Posts: 167 Location: Lyon

Many thanks, it does the trick, so now I'm making the digest.... :wink:

I'll came back later to tell you if I have the same prob for AMD64

Ok here the result:

ColinK · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 30 Dec 2005 Posts: 142

@Eugene33:

1. Please post /var/tmp/portage/bjfilter-2.50/temp/bjfilter-2.50-pixusip4100-ppd.patch-17513.out

2. Edit the ebuild and remove line 93: "epatch ..." -> So the patch won't be applied anymore if you retry. But that doesn't matter in your case anyway.

Please do 1 before 2.

Eugene33 · Apprentice Joined: 14 Nov 2004 Posts: 167 Location: Lyon

Thanks ColinK for your precious help

Sorry I could not find the /var/tmp/portage/bjfilter-2.50/temp/bjfilter-2.50-pixusip4100-ppd.patch-27802.out
I tried many time to generate it but still nothing.

so I removed the patch line from the ebuild

ColinK · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 30 Dec 2005 Posts: 142

hmm .. I was already interested why that patch didn't work for you - while it worked for me and bladus, as I suppose.

Does anyone know if it is possible to mix 32/64-bit? (especially if it is possible to compile a 64-bit application against 32-bit libraries?). Because that's what this is about.

ColinK · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 30 Dec 2005 Posts: 142

@Eugene33/bladus:

Do you have 32bit-emulation enabled? Someone told me, that it should actually work in this case.

Eugene33 · Apprentice Joined: 14 Nov 2004 Posts: 167 Location: Lyon

I have a 32-bit enabled, in the kernel and the emul-32.xxxxx packages
I was installed some ~x86 like ACX and the canon-560 ebuild https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61955 but always crashed with the bjfilter

ColinK · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 30 Dec 2005 Posts: 142

@Eugene33:

Please try the new ebuild. It should now compile in 32-bit mode on AMD64.

Good luck.

PS: did you previously place the patch in the correct folder? It has to be put in net-print/bjfilter/files/.

Eugene33 · Apprentice Joined: 14 Nov 2004 Posts: 167 Location: Lyon

Hi ColinK
Can't wait to try it

I started the x11 modular but I will give it a try just after.

Yes I put the patch in the bjfilter/files folder :cry:

Thanks again for all your efforts

Ok I'm back :lol:

There is a little error with the dependency for emul-x86-gtklibs which should be emul-linux-x86-gtklibs. Then it stopped again, telling me I should use the multilib with GCC. I checked and Multilib was in the USE.
Anyway I think this last problem come from my station as I have 289 upgrades to do. So when I will have finished with that (and checked again that gcc is multilib....weird) I 'll come back to you. :lol:

hopefully with a Great Hourra and a bottle of beer.

Eugene33 · Apprentice Joined: 14 Nov 2004 Posts: 167 Location: Lyon

Ok here is my feedback after re-emerging gcc with USE=multilib FEATURES=-sandbox as indicated

ColinK · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 30 Dec 2005 Posts: 142

I fixed some bugs. The ebuild in fact didn't copy all neccessary files. Now it does. :roll:

@Eugene33:
I removed the "has_m32"-check. So your last problem is gone now, too.

And I don't know if you really need a "USE=multilib FEATURES=-sandbox"-compiled gcc. I just studied what other ebuilds did to support AMD64. It might be possible that I misunderstood something. So you might try to switch back to your normal gcc-configuration. But you might try the new ebuild first.

Eugene33 · Apprentice Joined: 14 Nov 2004 Posts: 167 Location: Lyon

sorry still the same

ColinK · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 30 Dec 2005 Posts: 142

Ok - I fixed the dependency - but I don't know if that will help. I actually don't think so.

I guess I could need some help by someone experienced with AMD64 ebuilds - or just someone with any idea regarding this bug.

help

Eugene33 · Apprentice Joined: 14 Nov 2004 Posts: 167 Location: Lyon

I join you too, I put all my hope in you........ :wink:

I know what a burden

Tlaloc · Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 8:20 pm Post subject:

I am on x86 and also have problems with libraries not found when emerging the model specific parts selected with the use flags. Here is the output:

brot · Guru Joined: 06 Apr 2004 Posts: 322

If i can help, i would, but i dont know if the Canon Pixima MP500 works with this driver.

http://www.precisionroller.com/find/canon+pixma+mp500+printhead+print+head+mp-500+mp+500.htm

does this link mean that it is ip4200 compatible ?

edit: i found some files that have ip4200 in their names. Maybe I may help adding support for the mp500

ColinK · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 30 Dec 2005 Posts: 142

Ok thats actually good news because I've possibly got an explanation. :roll:

It doesn't seem to be related to AMD64 or not.

Ok I am now able to reproduce this problem.

And I solved it - the problem disapeared on my box.

I hope it will work now.

Tlaloc · Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 7:46 am Post subject:

The last ebuild you posted on bugs.gentoo.org compiles for me too now. Now I have to wait for the print server to arrive to actually test printing as I am too lazy to drag the printer around twice.

But I will report if it works or not. Ah, did you fix the dependency for gtk+-1.2 in the ebuild?
Bye, Val.

EDIT: I remembered that I could also print to the printer when it is attached to the windows box through samba, and voila, after some setup work it worked well at first glance. I tried only simple documents now, but setting the paper size and paper source worked through the kprint dialogue.

Bye and thanks, Val.

Eugene33 · Apprentice Joined: 14 Nov 2004 Posts: 167 Location: Lyon

Glad to hear it Tlaloc

Well, sadly i tried the last version and, for me, there is no change. Still crashing for the same library with the same error message.