bernard wrote: > For the last three days I have been banging my head against the wall > ("don't worry dear, its as pointy as ever it was" says my sympathetic > girlfriend) trying to get my printer to work. I installed potato some > time ago and tried to install cups, but didn't have much luck, so > I stripped everything off and re-installed lprng. I then used apsfilter > to configure things, the apsfilter printed a perfect test page but > when I used lpr....nothing! I tried with printtool which printed a > test ascii direct to the port but under lpr the printer muttered a > bit and then stopped. lpq -L gives me the following > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ lpq -L > Printer: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Queue: no printable jobs in queue > Status: accounting at start at 14:35:56.401 > Status: opening device '/dev/lp0' at 14:35:56.452 > Status: printing job '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' at 14:35:56.468 > Status: printing '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' starting OF at 14:35:56.468 > Status: printing data file 'dfA779debian', size 42 at 14:35:56.468 > Status: IF filter finished at 14:35:57.631 > Status: printing done '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' at 14:35:57.631 > Status: accounting at end at 14:35:57.631 > Status: finished '[EMAIL PROTECTED]', status 'JSUCC' at 14:35:57.631 > Status: subserver pid 5782 exit status 'JSUCC' at 14:35:57.636 > Status: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: job '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' printed at > 14:35:57.637 > Status: job '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' removed at 14:35:57.639 > > > > I can't see much wrong with the permissions-I'm currently operating > root. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l /var/spool/lpd > total 24 > drwx------ 2 daemon lp 4096 Jul 2 14:53 lp > drwxr-xr-x 2 lp lp 4096 Jul 2 11:54 > stcolor-a4-ascii-color > > > debian:/home/bernard# ls -l /var/spool/lpd/lp > total 28 > -rw------- 1 daemon lp 1602 Jul 2 14:53 acct > -rw------- 1 daemon lp 0 Jul 2 13:56 control.lp > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root lp 35 Jul 2 13:56 filter -> > /usr/share/printtool//master-filter > -rw------- 1 daemon lp 187 Jul 2 13:56 general.cfg > -rw------- 1 daemon lp 0 Jul 2 13:56 log > -rw------- 1 daemon lp 5 Jul 2 14:53 lp > -rw------- 1 daemon lp 346 Jul 2 13:56 postscript.cfg > -rw------- 1 daemon lp 0 Jul 2 13:56 status > -rw------- 1 daemon lp 2847 Jul 2 14:53 status.lp > -rw------- 1 daemon lp 146 Jul 2 13:56 textonly.cfg > -rw------- 1 daemon lp > > I would be pathetically crawlingly grateful to anybody who could assist. > There is > absolutely no shortage of additional information-three days worth-if required. >
Frustrating when none reply, isn't? Not an expert here, but i'm using pdq/xpd (tracking unstable =) with a stylus color 880 and works quite well with the ghostscript stp driver. You don't mention your printer, but i will suggest, as a starting point, www.linuxprinting.org (IIRC). About the permission, try adding your user to the "lp" group (no need to use root)... Andrea