> Try to see if it helps. Printing should Just Work - it's very frustrating...
For what it's worth I've now upgraded (bfu) to: SunOS solaris 5.11 opensol-20070326 i86pc i386 i86pc And, following the advice in: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=25998&tstart=0 I have: online 21:50:01 svc:/application/print/ppd-cache-update:default Using the GUI print admin tool: New Attached Printer % /usr/sbin/lpadmin -p laser -s localhost -v /dev/printers/0 -m standard_foomatic -A write -n /usr/share/ppd/SUNWfoomatic/Brother/Brother-HL-1430-hl1250.ppd.gz -o banner=never -I postscript -u allow:all % /usr/sbin/lpadmin -p laser -D "Brother HL-1430" % /usr/sbin/lpadmin -d laser % /usr/bin/enable laser % /usr/sbin/accept laser UX:lpadmin: WARNING: "/dev/printers/0" is accessible by others. TO FIX: If other users can access it you may get unwanted output. If this is not what you want change the owner to "lp" and change the mode to 0600. Processing continues. *** I dont know why I get the above warning: cd /etc/printers ls -l lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 Apr 3 20:42 0 -> ../../devices/isa/lp at 1,378:ecpp0 ls-l ../../devices/isa/lp at 1,378:ecpp0 crw------- 1 lp sys 119, 0 Apr 3 23:22 ../../devices/isa/lp at 1,378:ecpp0 I still can't print properly (only text files). Any jobs from OpenOffice.org, Firefox or "cat *.pdf | lpr" fail. I can see the job in the queue but get no output from the printer. I can't print PDF's from Evince. I dual-boot MSXP and have confirmed there is no hardware fault with the printer. Previously, this printer was connected to an OpenBSD/sparc64 box (ultra5). I used the base lp tools with APSfilter and Ghostscript (with hl1250 added) from ports. APSFilter requires LPRng when used on Solaris, which is not on Blastwave... and would require a... source install (oh no!). Maybe an option. http://www.apsfilter.org/docs/apsfilter-handbook-stable.html#install_notes_solaris I even tried a "user" (/var/lp/ppd) PPD downloaded from: http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Brother-HL-1430 So, I am unable to understand why my printer wont work as expected... My next plan is to try CUPS (yuck). I will feel a fraud if forced to use this - please help! Cheers, Stuart This message posted from opensolaris.org
