by I have a Brother HL-720 printer. According to Printing HOWTO it should
work under Linux with no problems. So, how do I make it work?
I understand (am I right?), that I need to add an appropriate filter to
/etc/printcap, and then I'll be able to do
$ echo "test"|lpr
To get this filter I have been trying to compile ghostscript 5.50.
Unfortunately, I am getting the following:
# ------------------------------------------------------------
/bin/sh <./obj/ldt.tr
ld: cannot open -lXt: No such file or directory
make: *** [obj/gs] Error 1
# ---------------------------------------------------------
The beginning and the last five lines of ./obj/ltd.tr look like this:
# ---------------------------------------------------
gcc -fno-common -L/usr/X11/lib -o ./obj/gs ./obj/gs.o ./obj/gp_getnv.o \
./obj/gp_nofb.o \
./obj/gp_unix.o \
[...]
./obj/gsnorop.o \
-lXt \
-lXext \
-lX11 \
-lm
# -------------------------------------------------------
What can I do about this?
And, is my idea of getting this printer to work correct at all?
Control panel printtool (RH) says:
# ----------------------------------------------------
Auto detection found the following:
/dev/lp0 : Not detected
/dev/lp1 : Not detected
/dev/lp2 : Not detected
# ------------------------------------------------------
and, of course
$ echo "test" >/dev/lp
does nothing. So, does trying to compile ghostscript make sense at all,
or is there some other problem (what???) that I should solve first?
The printer _does_ work under Win on the same computer.
TIA
[I am setting FUT comp.os.linux.hardware]
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Tomek Sienicki <tsca at has.dk>