[SunRescue] strange sun card

rescue at sunhelp.org rescue at sunhelp.org
Mon Mar 19 22:28:22 CST 2001


    Thank you, thank you , thank you!  Without looking 
like a real newbie, you've answered my question without 
it being asked.  Trying to do the same thing on my 20.  
Unforch, my job does not allow me the time to bang my 
head against the wall during a marathon session of 
getting the system to work.
> 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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