Re: [newbie] printer problem

[civileme]

On Tuesday 03 July 2001 20:31, baza486 wrote:
> Hi,
>
> can anyone help me get my HP Deskjet 500C printer working? I have
> Mandrake 7.2 running on a 64meg PC (Packard Bell). According to
> linuxPrinters.org it should work fine, but hardrake or config
> printer can't get it working. If I run config printer I get a
> message saying CUPS is loading, then after a minute or two it just
> drops back to KDE.
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> Thanx


try this from a terminal

rpm -qa| grep printpr

If you get some responses to that, you have both cups and printpro 
loaded, which will keep them from working.

Civileme