i am a final year project. I thought of doing my project in linux OS. I searched topic in net but not able to get some good topic. Can u plz give me some topic in linux. so that i can do it as my project.
Plz send it specifically to my id sundar_ram2003@yahoo.co.in
thank you
rsundarram
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I searched topic in net but not able to get some good topic.
What are your skills? What are your interests? What is the project timeframe? Which programming languages are you comfortable with? What project experience do you have?
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sundarram wrote:
i am a final year project. I thought of doing my project in linux OS. I searched topic in net but not able to get some good topic. Can u plz give me some topic in linux. so that i can do it as my project.
Plz send it specifically to my id sundar_ram2003@yahoo.co.in
How about writing a goody linux driver for the internal modems that are currently available in India? ;)
And a nice driver for Epson LX 300 to print just like it does in windows? :)
May I also add, a sane driver for the Canon D646U scanner.
If you are successfull, then you will receive lots of blessings and good wishes from many Indians including myself.
Regards,
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lawgon@thenilgiris.com wrote:
And a nice driver for Epson LX 300 to print just like it does in windows?
already available
No way like the windows print quality.
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lawgon@thenilgiris.com wrote:
which app do you print from?
Open Office. The fonts loose their curves and have burrs around them. In a table, many horizontal lines skip getting printed. It can not be used for formal printouts.
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Rony Bill wrote:
And a nice driver for Epson LX 300 to print just like it does in windows? :)
I don't know how many times I told you this, but still....... use apsfilter. Give me your fax number, I'll send you a copy of the print-outs that I get with my LX-300+apsfilter on GNU/Linux.
Rajen.
Rajen M. Parekh wrote:
print-outs that I get with my LX-300+apsfilter on GNU/Linux.
Which distro do you use? I am using mandrake 10.1. Open Office does not accept anything except postscript-1 with lpr -P printer_name as the command.
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On Thursday 01 Sep 2005 12:19 am, Rony Bill wrote:
Rajen M. Parekh wrote:
print-outs that I get with my LX-300+apsfilter on GNU/Linux.
Which distro do you use? I am using mandrake 10.1. Open Office does not accept anything except postscript-1 with lpr -P printer_name as the command.
that is CUPS - use LPRing
Rony Bill wrote:
Which distro do you use? I am using mandrake 10.1. Open Office does not accept anything except postscript-1 with lpr -P printer_name as the command.
The issue here is not Distro. It is application. I am using LPRng. I guess you should try it out, because I find it more better then CUPS as far as using DOT Matrix printer is concerned. I have even used it on HP Inkjet 810, with equal success but different people have different opinion about using LPRng and CUPS with Ink jet printers. But for any dot matrix, LPRng is the best option. I have tried CUPS and never found it as good as LPRng. Give it a try and you would like to change your opinion regarding print-outs from GNU/Linux on your LX-300.
To successfully configure your print filters with lprng, you must have ghostscript and apsfilter installed. For more detailed instructions, search our list archives and you will find one which I had posted in reply to your query at that time....... I don't remember when exactly was that.
And just for your info I am using Slackware 10.1 (most of the system updated to slackware-current,.... thanks to Dinesh Shah.).
Regards, Rajen.
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On Thursday 01 Sep 2005 2:29 pm, Rajen M. Parekh wrote:
For more detailed instructions, search our list archives and you will find one which I had posted in reply to your query at that time....... I don't remember when exactly was that.
10th december 2004 and well worth repeating:
This reply is probably late, but I hope it will still be helpful. First of all I am assuming that the printer in question here is a Epson LX 300 Dot Matrix printer. Before I begin I suggest that you go through our lug mail archive, because a few months back I had replied to somebody regarding using Dot Matrix printers under Linux.
Anyway, I'll explain what setup I have done for using Epson LX 300 printer with Linux.
The story in short is to move away from CUPS if you want to use Dot Matrix printers with Linux. You should use LPD printer software like the excellent LPRng. Red Hat till its release 8.0 used to include LPRng, but later version deprecated the software. The reason for this would best be known by their developers. I don't want to offend anybody or start any flame war but seriously Red Hat was probably never developed for Desktops. Try something better. Try SuSE, or better, try Slackware ;-)
The long story starts now. Well here is what you need to do to get your Dot Matrix printer working under Linux. First of all when using Dot Matrix printers, you should use LPD printer software like LPRng. Printing software like CUPS use postscript printing by default (try printing a simple text file with CUPS) where as LPRng prints text files in text mode. For printing files other then text files with LPRng, you need a filter program which tells LPRng to filter the file to be printed and get the desired output. If you are interested you should install a software called apsfilter. This requires you to install ghostscript and gs-fonts. These are mostly available on most of the distros. You can then easily set up your printer using the SETUP script which comes with apsfilter. Setting up a printer to work with LPRng is actually writing a correct /etc/printcap file and using the correct driver file from ghostscript. My current /etc/printcap file looks like this,
lp|eps9mid;r=240x204;q=medium;c=full;p=letter;m=auto:\ :lp=/dev/lp0:\ :if=/etc/apsfilter/basedir/bin/apsfilter:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\ :lf=/var/spool/lpd/lp/log:\ :af=/var/spool/lpd/lp/acct:\ :mx#0:\ :sh:
The only important thing above is the using the "eps9mid" printer driver and "r=240x204" resolution entry. This is included by aps-filter to specify what resolution is used. The output is excellent and you couldn't ask for anything better.
I am currently using Slackware 10.0 for my office computer and all my Invoice printing (using Foxpro with DOSemu), Spreadsheet/Quotations/Letters printing (using OpenOffice), is done on Epson LX300 printer. When I was using Red Hat (the last I used was release 8.0) I was never satisfied with the printing. After I moved to SuSE and later on to Slackware, I am more then happy.
Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
when using Dot Matrix printers, you should use LPD printer software like LPRng.
For printing files other then text files with LPRng, you need a filter program which tells LPRng to filter the file to be printed and get the desired output. If you are interested you should install a software called apsfilter. This requires you to install ghostscript and gs-fonts.
The help and efforts put in by you and Rajen prompted me to move my butt and reconfigure my printer. The first problem is that the LPRng and apsfilter don't exist in the Mandrake 10.1. I checked out the packages list. I recollected, this was the reason why Rajen's suggestion could not be implemented at that time when I was on RHEL 3.
I am currently using Slackware 10.0 for my office computer and all my Invoice printing (using Foxpro with DOSemu), Spreadsheet/Quotations/Letters printing (using OpenOffice), is done on Epson LX300 printer. When I was using Red Hat (the last I used was release 8.0) I was never satisfied with the printing. After I moved to SuSE and later on to Slackware, I am more then happy.
I am not using Slackware so the solution provided is definitely distro based.
Now here's what I did and can be tried out by newbies. First go to System > Configuration > Configure your computer. Enter the root password and the setup wizard opens up. Go to Hardware > Printers. Then select Add Printer and click the appropriate options till you reach the device list. The Epson Dot Matrix drivers stink real bad so avoid them like plague. In the Generic devices I selected Generic ESC/P Dot Matrix mid 9 pin printer. In the next window select the paper size and resolution. I selected the highest one 240 x 216.
Now here's the catch. The test print is ecellent except that there are ramdom vertical small 'dashes' on the paper which spoil the show. Last time I had seen this and rejected it, but this time after exhausting all other options and wasting a lot of paper, I selected the same device and resol. and printed a word document and the results were excellent. So remember, even if the test print is not fully ok, try out a document. It works and prints beautifully. Open Office does not have to be configured at all for printing, like its older versions. Simply select this printer and print.
Regards,
Rony.
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On Thursday 01 Sep 2005 11:46 pm, Rony Bill wrote:
The help and efforts put in by you and Rajen prompted me to move my butt and reconfigure my printer. The first problem is that the LPRng and apsfilter don't exist in the Mandrake 10.1.
many things dont exist on many distros. Procedure to be followed is: 1. check the cds if the app you want is there else 2. look for rpms for the app and your distro on the net else 3. download the source and install from source option 3 is *always* available, and installation from source is usually very simple: 1. unpack the package (tar -xvzf) 2. run ./configure 3. make 4. make install
the only thing to worry about is default installation path. Most packages by default go to /usr/local, but mandrake prefers /usr. This is solved by giving the 'prefix option' to configure:
./configure --prefix=/usr
check the README and INSTALL files for exact syntax
Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
- download the source and install from source
option 3 is *always* available, and installation from source is usually very simple:
- unpack the package (tar -xvzf)
- run ./configure
- make
- make install
the only thing to worry about is default installation path. Most packages by default go to /usr/local, but mandrake prefers /usr. This is solved by giving the 'prefix option' to configure:
./configure --prefix=/usr
One of the problems with external software is its dependencies on additional software or files or libraries. I spent many hours trying to install from the source of d4x which is a gui download manager but it gave me some dependency error or another. After some required lib and tools were installed, it wanted a latest version of something. Finally I just set it aside and use fresh download in windows for big resumable downloads. Then the file is transferred by mounting the vfat partition in linux.
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On Friday 02 Sep 2005 9:19 pm, Rony Bill wrote:
d4x which is a gui download manager
what is this?
Sometime on Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 09:30:22PM +0530, Kenneth Gonsalves said:
On Friday 02 Sep 2005 9:19 pm, Rony Bill wrote:
d4x which is a gui download manager
what is this?
regards kg
are you pulling rony's legs?
On Saturday 03 Sep 2005 12:07 pm, Anurag wrote:
Sometime on Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 09:30:22PM +0530, Kenneth Gonsalves
said:
On Friday 02 Sep 2005 9:19 pm, Rony Bill wrote:
d4x which is a gui download manager
what is this?
regards kg
are you pulling rony's legs?
nope - i have no idea what a gui download manager is, and not interested enough to google for it
Sometime on Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 04:05:36PM +0000, Dinesh Joshi said:
On Saturday 03 September 2005 10:01, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
nope - i have no idea what a gui download manager is, and not interested enough to google for it
Seen kget?
heh, he has only used wget!
On Sunday 04 Sep 2005 12:03 am, Anurag wrote:
Seen kget?
heh, he has only used wget!
i use the left mouse button in firefox for downloading
Dinesh Joshi wrote:
Me too. But apart from wget, i use rsync :P
I am looking for something that resumes broken downloads.
Regards,
Rony.
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On Sunday 04 Sep 2005 7:34 pm, Rony Bill wrote:
Dinesh Joshi wrote:
Me too. But apart from wget, i use rsync :P
I am looking for something that resumes broken downloads.
curl - in the bad old days of 14.4 dialup i once used curl to download adobe framemaker for linux - took me three weeks on redhat 5.2
I am looking for something that resumes broken downloads.
curl - in the bad old days of 14.4 dialup i once used curl to download adobe framemaker for linux - took me three weeks on redhat 5.2
On Monday 05 Sep 2005 8:07 am, Komal wrote:
Adobe Framemaker for Linux? Never heard of it before.
they tried it out - dont think they continued with it. I got an evaluation copy which never worked properly
On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 07:34:57PM +0530, Rony Bill wrote:
Dinesh Joshi wrote:
Me too. But apart from wget, i use rsync :P
I am looking for something that resumes broken downloads.
wget will do that. If the server doesn't support it you're screwed anyway.
Er, I assume you mean HTTP.
On Friday 02 September 2005 15:49, Rony Bill wrote:
One of the problems with external software is its dependencies on additional software or files or libraries. I spent many hours trying to install from the source of d4x which is a gui download manager but it gave me some dependency error or another. After some required lib and tools were installed, it wanted a latest version of something.
Use Source install ;)
http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/sinstall/
Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
On Thursday 01 Sep 2005 2:29 pm, Rajen M. Parekh wrote:
For more detailed instructions, search our list archives and you will find one which I had posted in reply to your query at that time....... I don't remember when exactly was that.
10th december 2004 and well worth repeating:
Hey Kenneth,
Thanks. I am glad that you did have a copy of it. Actually I was repenting while replying to Rony for not having a copy of that previous post. But am relieved to see that you had it. Thanks once again.
Rajen.
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On 8/25/05, sundarram sundar_ram2003@yahoo.co.in wrote:
i am a final year project. I thought of doing my project in linux OS. I searched topic in net but not able to get some good topic. Can u plz give me some topic in linux. so that i can do it as my project.
Plz send it specifically to my id sundar_ram2003@yahoo.co.in
thank you
rsundarram
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