On Sunday 16 Mar 2003 4:32 pm, David E. Fox wrote:
> OK, ran a urpmi --auto-select last night and updated lots of things.
>
> I needed to print something out of kword and although everything looks
> correct, nothing comes out of the printer. Cups is updated, I ran
> printerdrake, it's sending the test pages to the printer and then it
> just disappears into thin air.
>
> The parport modules are loaded and everything else seems fine - I
> don't think it's a kernel issue - although I have kernel-source for
> 2.4.21, the kernel rpm is still at 2.4.19.


What sort of printer do you have?
The last update of printer-utils broke operation with HP Deskjet 720 series.

The fix is to edit  /etc/pnm2ppa.conf and set the version parameter for your 
printer type.

Mandrake 9.1 has been fixed so it should be OK.

HTh

derek

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