On Saturday 19 January 2002 02:49 pm, dman wrote: > On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 09:50:53PM +0000, Alan Chandler wrote: > | I have set up a printer using CUPS called "laser". Its actually a > | Brother Laser printer connected to a windows machine across my network. > | It works great from within KDE. > | > | However, I have installed lyx - to try it out. This is NOT a kde/qt > | application - I think its a gtk. It running in a kde window. When I > | want to print it pops up a dialog box with a blank text box for me to > | fill in the name of the printer. > | > | Anyone any idea what to fill in to get it to print on my CUPS "laser". I > | tried the obvious (ie laser), it took a long time thinking before coming > | back to me as though it had done it, but there is no trace of a job on > | CUPS and nothing came out of the printer. > > Perhaps lyx is looking directly at /etc/printcap to see what printers > exist and is silently ignoring non-existant printers? To find out add > a printcap directive to /etc/cups/cupsd.conf > Printcap /etc/printcap > and restart cups. See that a (dummy) printcap is generated. Then try > printing with lyx again. > > It is also possible that lyx is using the other command set. There > are both SysV and BSD print commands provided by cupsys-client and > cupsys-bsd respectively. If you only have one of them installed, try > installing the other. > > -D
to find out the name of the cups designated printer, run lpstat -d. whatever it returns is the name you should print to. that works for me using "generic unix lpd," which i'm assuming is sysv.
