[cups] Dell B1160w on Raspberry Pi -- no pstospl filter for ARM? or is there a workaround?

[Carl McCabe]

Thanks to everyone who replied.

JimC: I will test out qemu and binfmt_misc.  That sounds like it might be a
good approach.

Hans: I went through that guide but am still left with the problem of no
pstospl filter binary for ARM.

Sean: I am first going to try the emulation approach because I would like
to support Windows clients as well, but if I can't get it to work, then I
will try the raw printer option.

I also found elsewhere that there is a set of printer drivers for Samsung
printers, called SpliX (http://splix.ap2c.org/).  The project's website
doesn't list the B1160w as a successfully tested printer (nor does it list
what appears to be the original Samsung branded version, Samsung
ML-2165W/XAA) but I'll still try it.

Thanks again for all the suggestions.

Carl

On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 12:08 PM, James Cloos <cloos at jhcloos.com> wrote:

> >>>>> "SG" == Sean Greenslade <sean at seangreenslade.com> writes:
>
> SG> Binaries built for x86 will never work on ARM. End of discussion. If
> SG> Dell does not offer a version compiled for ARM, it just won't work.
>
> Unless you use qemu and binfmt_misc.
>
> Carl,
>
> It looks like you will need to install qemu, configure binfmt_misc to
> call qemu whenever you try to run an x86 executable¹ and install the x86
> version of the driver from that website.  Avoid the 64 bit version for
> now since the Pi's userland is still limited, even on the 3, to 32 bit.
>
> It may be a bit slow but it should at least work.
>
> 1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binfmt_misc is reasonable, including
>    the references section.
>
> -JimC
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