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Old 21st January 2009
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Originally Posted by DrJ View Post
No, unless they are something like printer drivers for CUPS. The linux emulation is user-land only, and not for the kernel space.
No period. PPD files are not drivers. Those are description files for printer. If your printer doesn't speak Post Script programing language the drivers are provided by packages Ghostscript, Gutenprint, HPLIP, Splix, and foo2zjs. Those are natively compiled on BSDs from the source. Try to use Linux version of Ghostscript and you will see if it works. By the same taken that is why it is so important that above programs are written in portable fashion not just for Linux.
You can ask the porter of HPLIP and Splix driver of your version of BSD how difficult is to compile those programs on BSDs since they written only for Linux. HPLIP is semi functional on all BSDs because it makes false assumption about USB stuck and Splix is not even compiling on OpenBSD.

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