[SunRescue] strange sun card

James Lockwood rescue at sunhelp.org
Sat Mar 17 21:29:21 CST 2001


On Sat, 17 Mar 2001, Peter L. Wargo wrote:

> Looks like a SPARCprinter printer card.  The connectors are video
> (smaller) for the raster output, and parallel (larger).  IIRC, it's not
> supported by OS > 2.5.1...

...although the lpvi driver will function under 32-bit Solaris 8 if you
copy it over.  NeWSprint will not, but Ghostscript has support for the
SparcPrinter and will work with the driver.

I still have a SparcPrinter hooked to a SS20 running Solaris 8 and
NeWSprint.  Works beautifully. 

-James




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