Plotter setup question

[Tarek]

I recently setup the cadence tools for linux at our university and
none of our printers are showing up when I want to print a schematic.
We have the tools running on solaris10 and we didn't do anything
specific to setup the printers (i.e. didn't setup .cdsplotinit), and
all the printers are available. I made a .cdsplotinit in my home
folder from the template, but when I go to Design>Plot>Submit the
printers still don't show up. They do, however, show up when I want to
print waveforms (actually they show up twice, once from
the .cdsploitinit listing and again because cadence seems to detect
the printers by itself). This is very frustrating because I can't even
print schematics to a .ps file without a plotter being available. How
can I resolve this? Thanks.

BTW our versions are:

Linux IC: sub-version 5.10.41_USR5.90.69 OS version:
2.6.27.25-170.2.72.fc10.i686 (I know its not a supported platform)
Solaris IC: sub-version 5.10.41.500.5.128 OS version: 5.10
Generic_118833-17

 

[Riad KACED]

Hi Tarek,

Would you mind running the following commands into the CIW:

CIW> psConfigLoaded()
CIW> psLoadCdsPlotInit()
CIW> psQueryPlotters()

Please post the outputs.

Also, what is the outcome of the following UNIX command in your Linux
system ?

UNIX> lpstat -s

BTW, best way to share your Cadence version is by running:
UNIX> icfb -W

Cheers,
Riad.

 

[Tarek]

Would you mind running the following commands into the CIW:

CIW> psConfigLoaded()
CIW> psLoadCdsPlotInit()
CIW> psQueryPlotters()

I found there was a syntax problem with my .cdsplotinit after running
these commands once, I corrected them and the output is as follows:

psConfigLoaded()
nil
psLoadCdsPlotInit()
Loading /home/grad/tkhan/cmosp13/.cdsplotinit

t

psQueryPlotters()
("ENG412 Piano" "ENG412 Piano Single Sided" "ENG409 Prune" "ENG409

Prune Single Sided" "ENG408 Prism"
"ENG408 Prism Single Sided"
)

Since it doesn't seem to load the plotters automatically, I put
psLoadCdsPlotInit() in my .cdsinit and the plotters are listed when i
type psQueryPlotters() after launching icfb (I'm running remotely via -
nograph option so I can't see if they show up when I want to submit a
job for printing). I mentioned that I don't have this issue in UNIX,
so I'm guessing that having psLoadCdsPlotInit() in my .cdsinit will
load the plotters twice when I'm running under UNIX? How can I query
the platform (uname -m) in .cdsinit so that psLoadCdsPlotInit() is
only executed if I'm running on an i686 box?

Also, what is the outcome of the following UNIX command in your Linux
system ?

UNIX> lpstat -s

[tkhan@megatron ~]$ lpstat -s
system default destination: piano
device for piano: tea4cups:socket://piano:9100
device for pianos: tea4cups:socket://piano:9100
device for pizza: tea4cups:socket://pizza:9100
device for pizzas: tea4cups:socket://pizza:9100
device for prism: tea4cups:socket://prism:9100
device for prisms: tea4cups:socket://prism:9100
device for prune: tea4cups:socket://prune:9100
device for prunes: tea4cups:socket://prune:9100
device for ps147: tea4cups:socket://ps147
device for ps147s: tea4cups:socket://ps147s
device for purple: tea4cups:socket://purple
device for purples: tea4cups:socket://purple

Same output on both platforms.

BTW, best way to share your Cadence version is by running:
UNIX> icfb -W

What I posted was the output of icfb -W. Did you want icfb -V?

Linux IC: @(#)$CDS: icfb.exe version 5.1.0 06/20/2007 02:13 (cicln03)
$
Solaris IC: @(#)$CDS: icfb.exe version 5.1.0 11/04/2008 00:42
(cds125839) $

Thanks.
Tarek

 

[Tarek]

New problem.

I added my .cdsplotinit and I get all the printers in Linux and Unix
when I want to print the schematic, but under Unix when I want to
print a waveform the job does not go through. There's not problem
under Linux however. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Tarek

 

[Riad KACED]

Hi Tarek,

You new problem is beyond the Cadence scope I'm afraid. You better ask
your IT guy.
A statement like 'but under Unix when I want to print a waveform the
job does not go through.' is a bit meaningless in this forum. I don't
understand what that means as far as I'm concerned.
You might give a clearer indication if you want any help on this.
Generally speaking, you can print a postscript file (ps, eps) from
unix using the lp command, i.e. lp -d yourPrinter yourFile. Anyway, I
don't want to dive into this as long as it is not in the context of
this group.

Cheers,
Riad.

 

[Tarek]

A statement like 'but under Unix when I want to print a waveform the
job does not go through.' is a bit meaningless in this forum. I don't
understand what that means as far as I'm concerned.

What I meant was when I hit print, nothing gets printed. There is no
error in icfb, but when i type lpq -Pprinter_name it says nothing is
in queue. I just wanted to know if this is a cadence issue or a unix
issue, or where the print job is getting lost in between.

 

[Riad KACED]

Hi Tarek,

OK, understood !
Well, I don't know where is the problem. It's been long since I last
used Solaris and can't really say what's wrong.
You can run a quick test though. From Cadence, print your schematic
into a file instead of Plotter. This would generate a post script
file. Then launch the the Unix print using the above command I have
supplied: i.e. lp -d yourPrinter yourFile

Cheers,
Riad.