Subject: Re: LaserWriter setup
To: Don Doumakes <doumakes@loganet.net>
From: Frederick Bruckman <fb@enteract.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 04/04/2001 22:40:39
On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Don Doumakes wrote:

> On 2001.04.03 00:19:09 -0500 John Klos wrote:
> > The Personal LaserWriter 300 is a QuickDraw printer, not a PostScript
> > printer. Unless you can figure out how to produce QuickDraw, you
> > probably
> > won't be able to use this printer with NetBSD.
>
> My first reaction on hearing this was "shoot me now please."  But I was
> able to find some information that at least one person was able to get a
> QuickDraw printer working with NetBSD, using ghostscript and netatalk,
> among other things.  So I've installed ghostscript and am trying to get
> it working.
>
> Several libraries were missing and had to be loaded, naturally.  I was
> able to find them all except libXt.  Can anyone tell me where a
> precompiled package containing this library can be found?

It's included with the xbase.tgz set. If this is a non-X installation,
you might prefer to use the ghostscript-nox11 package, instead.


Frederick