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praxim
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 Posted: Wed Jul 10, 2002 9:17 pm Post subject: No printer at all? |
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Lately, I've been having troubles with rastertoprinter crashing. I looked at some other threads about CUPS problems and someone said that "cat test > /dev/lp0" worked correctly for them- well, I'd never thought of doing that, so I tried it, and nothing happened. The printer just sat there. There's no special output from dmesg, and my printer seems to be recognized:
| Code: | parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
parport0: irq 7 detected
parport0: Printer, Lexmark Lexmark Z53
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lp0: using parport0 (polling). |
Obviously, I never tried outputting directly to /dev/lp0 back when my printer still worked, but in theory, this should work. Am I wrong? What might be wrong with my printer? |
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praxim
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| Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2002 2:32 am Post subject: |
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| Just boosting this in hopes of a reply... |
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arkane
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| Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2002 3:32 am Post subject: |
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Have you tried the simple, "cat /etc/resolv.conf | lp" yet?
(granted lp is installed)
I've never done it directly to the device before. |
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praxim
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| Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2002 3:42 am Post subject: |
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| I was going directly to the device to determine if the device is the problem that's causing CUPS to fail. lp, for me, is provided by CUPS. |
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praxim
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| After a week or two of struggling with CUPS, unmerging, re-emerging, deleting, etc., I unmerged, deleted everything remotely related to printing, re-emerged, repeated several times, and... uh... it prints now. Don't ask me why. Quite frankly, it scared the hell out of me when it started printing. I'm going to have to reboot and try this again several times, because I don't believe it. While on the topic... does anyone know how to permanently change the paper size setting in GNOME 2? |
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