On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, M.C. Vernon wrote:
> > > 1) printing is completely dead. It's as though I didn't have a printer. > > Nothing I do has any affect on it. This has nothing to do with any changes I > > made to my system. It's dead from the moment I install. > > > > I have a WinBook XL (which runs linux great in general by the way) and a > > DeskJet 500, as well as a parallel port iomega zip drive. > > > > I don't think it's the zip drive, because I tried installing from scratch > > without it, and it didn't help. > > > > The only unusual thing I can think of is that when I got the printer cable, > > I needed one with pins sticking out of both ends (instead of with one male > > and one female connector) because that's just the way the ports are > > built. The salesperson was surprised at this, but I figure the cord plugs in > > so that can't be the problem. > > > > I've recompiled both a 2.0.34 and a 2.1.126 kernel several times, with no > > luck. I've looked through the Printing HOWTO, and just generally poked > > around in /etc with no luck. I'm desperate. > > Have you tried running magicfilter? Is the lpr daemon running? I don't have magicfilter, but even catting to the /dev/lp? files don't work. But I do have the daemon running: ps aux includes this line: lp 13914 0.0 0.9 1556 868 ? S 20:29 0:00 lpd MAIN Zack > HTH, > > Matthew > > > -- > Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo > > Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society > Selwyn College Computer Support > http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ > http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ > http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ >
