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schwa
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 Posted: Thu Dec 12, 2002 7:49 am Post subject: printing problems |
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Hello,
I installed gentoo 1.4RC1 a few days ago and the only thing that still doesn't work is my printer (Canon BJC 3000). I read http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/desktop.xml and followed the xpdq way. I compiled the "parallel port support" directly in the kernel and installed the good driver. When I run xpdq as root, I can find the good driver and all seems (but isn't) correct. The problem is that I can't see the /dev/lp0 (there's no lpx in /dev either), and I can't print anything. If someone could tell me what to do (please be lenient, I'm not an advanced user at all), it would be really nice  .
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agent_jdh
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| Posted: Thu Dec 12, 2002 10:09 am Post subject: |
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| Did you compile line printer (lp) support into the kernel as well? |
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schwa
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| Posted: Mon Dec 16, 2002 8:55 am Post subject: |
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I'm really sorry to answer back so late  but I had been away from my computer for a rather long week end .
So, I realized that I had only parallel port support and not parallel port printer support compiled in the kernel ( again).
Now I do have a /dev/lp0 device, but I still cannot print : actually, I have no error message, but nothing happens 
Here is my /etc/pdq/printrc file : maybe someone will be able to tell what's wrong :
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# Redefinitions are silently ignored. Be careful to define last the
# choices you want. The order of processing is /etc/printrc and
# then ~/.printrc
####################################################
#
# Configurable options
#
#
# Directory to store jobs
#job_dir "~/.printjobs"
# Time (in seconds) for which job files will be saved.
# Jobs files will be cleaned up after new jobs finish.
#job_history_duration 259200
# Maximum number of times to try to connect to the printer.
#max_send_tries 30
# Delay (in seconds) between attempting to resend
#delay_between_tries 10
# Default printer definition
#default_printer /dev/lp0
## note : I tried to uncomment the above line but it still doesn't work
# Path that gets passed to driver scripts
driver_command_path "/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin"
# Path that gets passed to interface scripts
interface_command_path "/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin"
####################################################
#
# Extra pieces of this config file, that define drivers and interfaces.
#
#
try_include "/etc/pdq/interfaces/*"
try_include "/etc/pdq/drivers/*/*"
default_printer Imprimante
printer "Imprimante" {
# Added by the wizard on Thu Dec 12 14:07:54 2002
location "/dev"
model "Canon"
driver "gs-bjc600"
interface "local-port"
driver_opts { }
driver_args {"paper" = "a4"}
interface_opts { }
interface_args {"PORT" = "/dev/lp0"}
}
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Thank you again. |
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schwa
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| Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2002 11:07 am Post subject: |
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| That's OK. I installed CUPS instead (which is much better and almost as easy as pdq to configure) and it's now working |
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