--- "Manuel A. McLure" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sunday 19 February 2006 01:53 pm, maxim wexler > wrote: > > Then you're part of a dying breed evidently. > > > > I wasn't able to get cups to work so installed > lprng. > > > > For more details on my problem go to the archives > and > > search against my name and 'print' and 'cups' > > I can't imagine how frustrated you are at this > point. > > If you wouldn't mind, I have some troubleshooting > suggestions. It appears that > perhaps you might have some problems with the actual > printer interface > (/dev/lp0), so let's make sure that works well. > > FIrst, make sure nothing, even lprng, is using > /dev/lp0 - shut down lprng and > make sure there are no processes left around. > > Then run the following command: > > /bin/echo -e -n > Hello\\015\\012World\\015\\012\\014 >textfile.txt > > And finally > > cat textfile.txt >/dev/lp0 This looks like an elaborate form of echo -e "This text should appear on the printer\f" > /dev/lp0 Which works fine. Also, from apsfilter I was able to print a test page. So the hardware seems to be OK. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
