On Saturday 18 February 2006 23.20, Mark Knecht wrote: > I'll jump in here also as I'm on an AMD64 which otherwise is workign > pretty well but I have numerous printing problems also. Maybe my > problems are similar to Thierry's and some answers will help him. (I > hope...) > > My environment is an AMD64 machine running Gentoo-64 and then two > printers on my network. One is an Epson on an older FC2 machine and > the other is an HP on a Mac Mini running OS X. I periodically lose the > ability to print anthing. Sometimes I print from the AMD64 to the MAc > using the lpr command and it can take up to 2 hours before the file > gets printed. Other times I can print and it comes out immediately. > > One most frustrating problem is that simple commands like lpstat -a do > not work unless BOTH the Mac and the FC2 machine are on. If EITHER > machine is turned off lpstat fails tellign me it cannot reach the CUPS > server. If I try to print when either machine is off I'm likely to get > nothing. > > Is this normal? It would be better if it would just work with whatever > is turned on. Is there a way to fix this? > > Thanks, > Mark
Well, I unfortunately can't answer to these questions. Once I've got Linux running smoothly on the amd64 I'll probably take a look at Mac printing... However, I figured out what my problem was when, after I changed some USE flags and followed the advice to recompile things to take these flags into account, I once again ran into the problem of gnome-print not compiling. So I googled a bit to try and understand what exactly gnome-print was doing (I have not compiled Gnome "itself" as I use KDE), didn't understand it really but found a statement saying that "programs could use gnome-print or gimp-print". I did not have gnome-print and could not get it, so I emerged gimp-print and... my computer prints! So it appears that cups runs on another "level" than gimp-print and that both are required to get something printed, while kde... well, I don't know what kde uses but here it obviously needed gimp-print. Perhaps someone with more knowledge on this list will explain, anyway as far as I am concerned it now works. Thierry -- The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself? Frank Zappa -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list
