From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Sun Feb 26 19:15:10 2006 X-Original-To: fnaumann@mail.boerde.de Delivered-To: fnaumann@mail.boerde.de X-ME-UUID: 20060226181024317.4D70C1C00172@mwinf0907.wanadoo.fr Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 19:10:23 +0100 From: Patrice Mandin To: Mint list Subject: Re: [MiNT] Printing Message-Id: <20060226191023.2590bac7.mandin.patrice@wanadoo.fr> In-Reply-To: <3F62B65C-CF69-4877-A090-4A61FBE495B4@epfl.ch> References: <1140705148.3885.1.camel@mduckworth.phillypark.net> <001ad539.018b9e3a268c@smtp.freeola.net> <3F62B65C-CF69-4877-A090-4A61FBE495B4@epfl.ch> Organization: Chez moi X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-To: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: mandin.patrice@wanadoo.fr Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at relay.boerde.de X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on relay.boerde.de X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.7 tagged_above=-50.5 required=7.0 tests=AWL, BAYES_00 X-Spam-Level: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by wh58-508.st.uni-magdeburg.de id k1QIFAci018663 Le Fri, 24 Feb 2006 23:49:33 +0100 Philipp Donzé a écrit: > To get a real progress and removing the need for an old system > extension which won't evolve any further, it's important to get > printing support into fVDI. And that's where I'm starting to wonder > what's the state of fVDIs printing capabilities? What was the "state > of the art" of NVDI printer drivers? > > Was NVDI capable of this? > > Are there any developers left who want to attack this problem? Or are > > working on it? Any VDI can have a printer driver, but it seems each VDI/GDOS use a different API to create a printer driver. Having modern printer support in MiNT requires 2 things: (1) Porting CUPS to MiNT (should be easy, modulo the hardware support) (2) Write a VDI driver for CUPS (hard, provided you have no doc to write one). -- Patrice Mandin WWW: http://pmandin.atari.org/ Programmeur Linux, Atari Spécialité: Développement, jeux