-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 10 Aug 2002 4:17 pm, frame wrote:
> How to get this working? > Drakconf->printer just hangs. > The kups frontend seems to be ok, but doesn't print any testpage. > Tried to access printer directly: echo "..." >> /dev/usb/lp0 - works. > Any suggestions? After eventually fruitful hacking around I think there's a big problem with some printer drivers and 9.0 beta 2, although it's difficult to see exactly what the problem is. I had a similar problem (nothing happening on print from a GUI) and worse (lpr didn't work; lpq showed nothing in the queue) with my USB Lexmark Z42, which worked perfectly with 8.2. When I ran printerdrake, first of all a new version of CUPS (4.2.2-pre 4) downloaded without warning (presumably because I'd set up a download source for Mandrake Cooker?); after about half an hour of playing with the options I got nowhere. So I changed the driver from: Lexmark Z42, CUPS+GIMP-print v4.2.2-pre4 [English] to Lexmark Z42, Foomatic + drv_z42 and out came a perfect test page! So, if the HP has a similar Foomatic driver option, switch to that and try again. (You change the driver from the KDE Control Centre | System | Printing Manager; select the printer, then the Properties tab, then the Driver icon, then Change ... and, I hope, a list of options appears). Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9VTrMdasIDb/2nMwRAoJ+AJ45dUdQdvkmjVKuXg1HKcpF2uA2xQCfZHPO iaWvg3RQ9/2ZmekyJsgJfi0= =6/91 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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