[newbie] cups installation
I have two PCs running MDK 10.1 On attempting to install cups, one PC downloads the files from the internet, and reports bad signatures, the other PC installs from the CDs with no apparent errors. Can i force the install package to read from the CD rather than download the software? Thanks Carlton Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] cups installation
Carlton Matthew wrote: I have two PCs running MDK 10.1 On attempting to install cups, one PC downloads the files from the internet, and reports bad signatures, the other PC installs from the CDs with no apparent errors. Can i force the install package to read from the CD rather than download the software? Thanks Carlton If you only have the CD sources defined, or if you disable the Internet sources, then it will use the CDs. But it will not be using the updated packages. It sounds like you may not have the keys from the update source installed, or you are using a bad update source. You realy want the cups packages from the update source, and not the ones from the install CD. When you set up the update source, it should have inported the keys for the RPMs at the same time. You can try downloading the keys yourself, and running rpm --import PUBKEY where PUBKEY is the public key file name. I would expect keys names pubkey and pubkey2 from the update source. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Cups drivers online update
I've tried to install the cups-drivers online update without success. After the download finishes and the installation begins, I get a message to the effect that there's a conflict with /usr/lib/cups/backend/mtink and the installation then aborts. Exactly the same thing happens when I try to install the online printer-utils update package. Any ideas anyone? -- Martin Registered Linux User #357086 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] CUPS
Thank you, It is now working. Steve - Original Message - From: Rob Blomquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 10:08 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] CUPS On Monday 30 August 2004 4:15 pm, Steve wrote: After I intsall CUPS from the RPMs and then go to Configure your hardwarePrinters, it tries to load CUPS again, opens the packages to install it (even though I have already installed it) and then fails with the message CUPS cannot be installed. It does this every time. You installed it using rpm, no? Under mandrake one needs to use urpmi, as its urpmi that is having the problem. I am not sure how to correct this problem, if there is one. Now, let the configure your hardware stuff alone, Use the Cups software to configure it all. Point your browser at http://localhost:631/ and fire away. The CUPS web interface should come right up. If you have problems with that, and its a pretty simple interface, then you can click the on-line help link to get help from the cups website. Rob -- Linux Desktop user since 2000, Home networker since shortly after. Linux User #183693 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] CUPS
I am trying to install a printer in Mandrake 10 but each time it gets to the point where it installs CUPS it fails and says CUPS could not be installed. I am logged in as ROOT. Any ideas? Thanks, Steve
RE: [newbie] CUPS
I had cups printer problems as well. I found using a web browser and pointing to http://localhost:631made installing printers real easy. Make sure cups service is started first in the services controller. Mark -Original Message-From: Steve [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 5:00 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [newbie] CUPS I am trying to install a printer in Mandrake 10 but each time it gets to the point where it installs CUPS it fails and says CUPS could not be installed. I am logged in as ROOT. Any ideas? Thanks, Steve
Re: [newbie] CUPS
Seems to me like you dont have CUPS installed jet, so I recomend you to install all the CUPS RPMS befor trying to install the printer. After doing that you can use the web configuration tool for cups http://localhost:631 Cdrack. El lun, 30-08-2004 a las 21:00, Steve escribi: I am trying to install a printer in Mandrake 10 but each time it gets to the point where it installs CUPS it fails and says CUPS could not be installed. I am logged in as ROOT. Any ideas? Thanks, Steve
Re: [newbie] CUPS
After I intsall CUPS from the RPMs and then go to Configure your hardwarePrinters, it tries to load CUPS again, opens the packages to install it (even though I have already installed it) and then fails with the message CUPS cannot be installed. It does this every time. Steve - Original Message - From: Cdrack To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 9:45 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] CUPS Seems to me like you don´t have CUPS installed jet, so I recomend you to install all the CUPS RPM´S befor trying to install the printer.After doing that you can use the web configuration tool for cups http://localhost:631Cdrack.El lun, 30-08-2004 a las 21:00, Steve escribió: I am trying to install a printer in Mandrake 10 but each time it gets to the point where it installs CUPS it fails and says CUPS could not be installed. I am logged in as ROOT. Any ideas?Thanks,Steve
Re: [newbie] CUPS
On Monday 30 August 2004 4:15 pm, Steve wrote: After I intsall CUPS from the RPMs and then go to Configure your hardwarePrinters, it tries to load CUPS again, opens the packages to install it (even though I have already installed it) and then fails with the message CUPS cannot be installed. It does this every time. You installed it using rpm, no? Under mandrake one needs to use urpmi, as its urpmi that is having the problem. I am not sure how to correct this problem, if there is one. Now, let the configure your hardware stuff alone, Use the Cups software to configure it all. Point your browser at http://localhost:631/ and fire away. The CUPS web interface should come right up. If you have problems with that, and its a pretty simple interface, then you can click the on-line help link to get help from the cups website. Rob -- Linux Desktop user since 2000, Home networker since shortly after. Linux User #183693 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] CUPS causing martian source messages in syslog
On Wednesday 14 July 2004 08:28 pm, hackhound wrote: I am using CUPS to print to a shared printer connected to my W2k machine. I notice the following two lines keep showing up in my syslog. They appear twice a minute nonstop. That is until I shutdown CUPS. Once I did that, the error messages went away. I have searched the net for an answer, but cannot find any solution. I was told to change my logging level so these messages are no longer logged, but I don't think that is a good solution. Jul 14 19:21:00 home kernel: martian source 192.168.1.255 from 192.168.1.200, on dev eth0 Jul 14 19:21:00 home kernel: ll header: ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:00:0d:88:c3:49:b1:08:00 Unfortunately, IIRC, there is not really any other solution to this issue. The martian source log entry is caused by a routine broadcast that enables the browsing of printer shares on a local network. When you log martian source from the kernel and allow CUPS browsing, you will inevitably get logs of martian source packets as CUPS attempts to broadcast its presence throughout the local LAN segment. You have essentially two choices, disable CUPS browsing so that CUPS doesn't broadcast, or turn martian packet logging off so that you don't see the messages. Either one of these will remove those entries from your log files. -- Bryan Phinney Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] CUPS causing martian source messages in syslog
I am using CUPS to print to a shared printer connected to my W2k machine. I notice the following two lines keep showing up in my syslog. They appear twice a minute nonstop. That is until I shutdown CUPS. Once I did that, the error messages went away. I have searched the net for an answer, but cannot find any solution. I was told to change my logging level so these messages are no longer logged, but I don't think that is a good solution. Jul 14 19:21:00 home kernel: martian source 192.168.1.255 from 192.168.1.200, on dev eth0 Jul 14 19:21:00 home kernel: ll header: ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:00:0d:88:c3:49:b1:08:00 Thanks, Hackhound Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Cups printing error I dont understand
I am running a Cannon i850 with a turboprint driver using cups and can print a test page from cups or turboprint. When I try to send something else to the printer I get the following error:Error while reading filter description for true. Empty command line received. I have been unable to read a man page of info page for cups No man page. The HOW-TO is unreadable in kwrite as well (binary). What now? -- Regards; Hoyt Ignore the past and you will fail! Ignore the future and you have already failed! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] CUPS - possible USB problem on 9.2?
On Thu, 08 Jan 2004 20:17:48 +, Margot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been having problems with my printer for a while now. It is an Epson Stylus C42UX, and it disappears from my recognised hardware list every time I reboot - which is every day, as I don't have a cat-proof room for the computer! My brother has a OfficeJet or something like it. Mandrake 9.2 does have drivers for it, but it's not recognised at all. He doesn't live in the same city, so I haven't been able to experiment. It's annoying because it absolutely does not work in XP (which he runs) and while it should work in 9.2 (and impress him to no end) it doesn't. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CUPS - possible USB problem on 9.2?
On Fri, 09 Jan 2004 14:37:22 -0700, jpearl24 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's annoying because it absolutely does not work in XP (which he runs) and while it should work in 9.2 (and impress him to no end) it doesn't. Miark I use the standard officejet and it works ... i would be scared if it doesnt work in XP It's apparently not supposed to work in XP. That's why I was so hopeful for Mandrake 9.2--it's at least supposed to. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CUPS - possible USB problem on 9.2?
On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 14:25, Miark wrote: On Fri, 09 Jan 2004 14:37:22 -0700, jpearl24 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's annoying because it absolutely does not work in XP (which he runs) and while it should work in 9.2 (and impress him to no end) it doesn't. Miark I use the standard officejet and it works ... i would be scared if it doesnt work in XP It's apparently not supposed to work in XP. That's why I was so hopeful for Mandrake 9.2--it's at least supposed to. do you have the latesr version of HPOJ installed http://sourceforge.net/projects/hpoj/ and the latest version of HPIJS installed http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_driver.cgi?driver=hpijs also check out the TwiKi page Miark __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CUPS - possible USB problem on 9.2?
On Friday 09 January 2004 04:12 pm, Miark wrote: snip My brother has a OfficeJet or something like it. Mandrake 9.2 does have drivers for it, but it's not recognised at all. He doesn't live in the same city, so I haven't been able to experiment. It's annoying because it absolutely does not work in XP (which he runs) and while it should work in 9.2 (and impress him to no end) it doesn't. Miark Miark: Have you been to http://www.linuxprinting.org/? You can browse their printer driver files, but you'll need to know the model number of the printer. -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] CUPS - possible USB problem on 9.2?
I've been having problems with my printer for a while now. It is an Epson Stylus C42UX, and it disappears from my recognised hardware list every time I reboot - which is every day, as I don't have a cat-proof room for the computer! In an earlier thread, Albert Charron suggested a workaround - urpme cups, then urpmi cups, then reinstall printer. This works, but I have to do it every time I reboot - it doesn't seem to stick. Thinking back, the printer problem seems to have started once I got my scanner stabilised - when I first got the scanner, I was having to reinstall it every time I wanted to use it, but now it is automatically recognised every time I reboot. The scanner is also a USB device. Is it possible that my Mandrake setup is only capable of automatically recognising one USB device at at time? If this is the case, is there any way to change it? Margot Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CUPS and OOo
Miark wrote: I thought OOo and CUPS work together, but when I print, there's no mention of CUPS, and whatever is working in its place does a crap job of printing (draft mode instead of normal, although it's not set to do that). How do I get CUPS to work with OOo? Miark I was using OOo on Win98, and had a similar problem when I started to migrate to Mandrake - all the old OOo docs that I migrated printed just as well through Mandrake as they had done through Win98, but any new docs I created would only print in draft quality. I don't know what causes the problem, but I found a way round it - the default font on my OOo in Mandrake is Nimbus Roman. If I use any other font, the printing is fine - it is just the default font that doesn't work properly for me! So, try a different font and see if it works. If not, perhaps some of the more technical people here can help! Margot Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CUPS and OOo
Miark wrote: How do I get CUPS to work with OOo? Miark I set the OOo print command to kprinter and let KDE print manager handle things. works very well for me with a Kyocera-Mita FS1000 and an Epson Stylus Photo 830. HTH Graham -- Proudly powered by GNU/Linux Mandrake-9.2 (Cooker) kernel 2.4.21-0.25 Kde 3.1.3 Registered Linux User #309089 Machine #195076 A7N8X XP2700+ 512RAM Gf4Ti4600 80Gb Audigy2 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CUPS and OOo
And how did you set it? spadmin is the only tool I see, and it doesn't look like it can do this. Miark On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 19:55:47 +1000, Graham Banks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I set the OOo print command to kprinter and let KDE print manager handle things. works very well for me with a Kyocera-Mita FS1000 and an Epson Stylus Photo 830. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CUPS and OOo
Miark wrote: And how did you set it? spadmin is the only tool I see, and it doesn't look like it can do this. I set the OOo print command to kprinter and let KDE print manager handle things. works very well for me with a Kyocera-Mita FS1000 and an Epson Stylus Photo 830. I used spadmin to create a new printer and entered kprinter as the print command, then set the new printer as default. Works like a charm in OO-1.03 and OO- 1.1 rc2. Graham -- Proudly powered by GNU/Linux Mandrake-9.2 (Cooker) kernel 2.4.21-0.25 Kde 3.1.3 Registered Linux User #309089 Machine #195076 A7N8X XP2700+ 512RAM Gf4Ti4600 80Gb Audigy2 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] CUPS and OOo
I thought OOo and CUPS work together, but when I print, there's no mention of CUPS, and whatever is working in its place does a crap job of printing (draft mode instead of normal, although it's not set to do that). How do I get CUPS to work with OOo? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CUPS doesn't list my printer under MDK9
Derek Jennings wrote: Try Turboprint It is free (as in beer) for personal use and is said to work well with Canon printers. http://www.turboprint.de/english.html derek Installed it - did the business - thanks -- Graham Watkins For me, morning begins when I realize that the soft warm body curled up next to me is a cat. (Kinky Friedman - Frequent Flyer) Registered Linux user number 265254 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CUPS: importing fonts
Len Lawrence wrote: On Sun, 09 Mar 2003 19:59:46 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you working with M9.0 No, 8.2, but 9.0 has the broken Fontmap link. The msfonts directory is one I created to store downloaded MS TrueType fonts. I think that my Fontmap was resurrected from Fontmap.GS in the installed Ghostscript tree. And, yes, the 5.50 is the cause of the broken link. It should be 6.53 in Mandrake 8.2, possibly 8.80 in your case. OK, So I'm beginning to get the general drift of all this . So when you add additional fonts to an app. no matter that it has it, it still needs for ghostscript to have a set of matching fonts to enable it to process the printfile correctly. Is this correct ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CUPS: importing fonts
On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 09:33:05 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 06 Mar 2003 9:03 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Len Lawrence wrote: On Wed, 05 Mar 2003 10:54:11 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Len Lawrence wrote: Thanks for your comments John. I agree that printing is a complex issue which probably explains why LX Format has not replied. If in two years research I have not been able to find an explanation of how CUPS deals with PostScript fonts then they probably cannot afford the time to follow up my query. It is obviously not something anybody can answer off the top of their head. So I will continue poking around. Thanks also for the information re PCL5 and PCL3. I had not come across that. The printer is an HP Deskjet 940C by the way. HP deskjet940C ought to be supported, most of the HP inkjet printers are. I have an old HP670C which works quite well, but is a very noisy shake rattle and roll printer, compared to my Lexmark Z51 + Z52's. I would be surprized if HP 940C is not supported, or have I misunderstood, perhaps it does work but you need more fonts ? IIRC the 940 is a slower version of the 990, which I use. I have no problems per se, but different programs have different capabilities in handling fonts and complex layouts. Have you tried the same output in a different package? It would tell you, perhaps, whether that is the source of your problem. Oddly enough I find OO.o better on my system than SO6 in handling these things. Agreed. Importing TrueType fonts into OO.o seemed easier than in StarOffice. -- Len Lawrence -- Never argue with a fool -- people might not be able to tell the difference. -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CUPS: importing fonts
On Sunday 09 March 2003 01:51 am, Len Lawrence wrote: Then, edit the Fontmap file. Insert the following line in the end section, using tabs as separators, not spaces: /Verdana-BoldItalic (verdanaz.pfa) ; % 5066571 The font alias at the beginning of the line must match exactly the name held in the font files and it is this which should appear in the postscript file itself with the findfont directive. Your document generator should handle this automatically if given the correct name. e.g. /Verdana-BoldItalic findfont 14 scalefont ISOEncode setfont The line %%DocumentNeededResources: font Verdana-BoldItalic appears in the document header. I feel a bit of a fool for taking so long to find such a simple solution to this problem. Time to get a life I think. Are you in a position to test this on 9.1. It needs to be done quickly. -- Greg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CUPS: importing fonts
On Sun, 09 Mar 2003 19:51, Len Lawrence wrote: On Wed, 05 Mar 2003 10:54:11 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Len Lawrence wrote: all snipped -- Understanding linux printer setup is not easy, and so here is my best try, -- snip snip snip -- Ladies, Gentleman, and script kiddies. Done it! Retreading old ground, I discovered the exact prescription to allow ghostscript to locate the new fonts for postscript files. Since gv was unable to render them either, I figured that it was purely a ghostscript problem - nothing to do with CUPS. GS finds the font resources in the ghostscript and Type1 directories under /usr/share/fonts/defaults. Indexing is performed through a Fontmap file in ./ghostscript, but in Mandrake 8.2 and 9.0 this is a bad link, pointing to lib/Fontmap.GS in the ghostscript installation directories. This was probably the case with 8.1 also, and may be carried into 9.1. The link references the wrong (older) version of Ghostscript. Anyway, I repaired that link and carried out the following operations (using Verdana-BoldItalic as an example): cd /usr/share/fonts/msfonts # Generate Type1 fonts from TrueType ./ttf2pt1 -e verdanaz.ttf verdanaz # Copy the font metric file to ghostscript cp verdanaz.afm /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript # Copy the ASCII font file to ghostscript cp verdanaz.pfa /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript cd /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript Then, edit the Fontmap file. Insert the following line in the end section, using tabs as separators, not spaces: /Verdana-BoldItalic (verdanaz.pfa) ; % 5066571 The font alias at the beginning of the line must match exactly the name held in the font files and it is this which should appear in the postscript file itself with the findfont directive. Your document generator should handle this automatically if given the correct name. e.g. /Verdana-BoldItalic findfont 14 scalefont ISOEncode setfont The line %%DocumentNeededResources: font Verdana-BoldItalic appears in the document header. I feel a bit of a fool for taking so long to find such a simple solution to this problem. Time to get a life I think. Simple, what weed am i smokin'. I do not understand f a about what you wrote, except i recognise a full stop at the end of every sentence. Seeing as you have just become the authority on the matter could you slow this down to about half speed. Then poke it on a web space and post a link to it. Else, give it to me direct, at half speed. I will post it on a website for you. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CUPS: importing fonts
On Sun, 9 Mar 2003 06:58:55 -0500 Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 09 March 2003 01:51 am, Len Lawrence wrote: Then, edit the Fontmap file. Insert the following line in the end section, using tabs as separators, not spaces: /Verdana-BoldItalic (verdanaz.pfa) ; % 5066571 The font alias at the beginning of the line must match exactly the name held in the font files and it is this which should appear in the postscript file itself with the findfont directive. Your document generator should handle this automatically if given the correct name. e.g. /Verdana-BoldItalic findfont 14 scalefont ISOEncode setfont The line %%DocumentNeededResources: font Verdana-BoldItalic appears in the document header. I feel a bit of a fool for taking so long to find such a simple solution to this problem. Time to get a life I think. Are you in a position to test this on 9.1. It needs to be done quickly. Sorry Greg. I am not uptodate yet. Waiting for the wrinkles in 9.1 to be ironed out before buyig it. My preferred system is 8.2 at present. -- Len Lawrence -- Never argue with a fool -- people might not be able to tell the difference. -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CUPS: importing fonts
On Sun, 09 Mar 2003 19:59:46 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Adams wrote: On Sun, 09 Mar 2003 19:51, Len Lawrence wrote: On Wed, 05 Mar 2003 10:54:11 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Len Lawrence wrote: all snipped -- Understanding linux printer setup is not easy, and so here is my best try, -- snip snip snip -- Ladies, Gentleman, and script kiddies. Done it! Retreading old ground, I discovered the exact prescription to allow ghostscript to locate the new fonts for postscript files. Since gv was unable to render them either, I figured that it was purely a ghostscript problem - nothing to do with CUPS. GS finds the font resources in the ghostscript and Type1 directories under /usr/share/fonts/defaults. yep found those. Indexing is performed through a Fontmap file in ./ghostscript, /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript/Fontmap, does not exist in my M9.0 OS Unable to run the command specified. The file or directory file:/usr/share/ghostscript/5.50/Fontmap.GS does not exist. but in Mandrake 8.2 and 9.0 this is a bad link, pointing to lib/Fontmap.GS in In mine it points to, ./././ghostscript/5.50/Fontmap.GS the ghostscript installation directories. This was probably the case with 8.1 also, and may be carried into 9.1. The link references the wrong (older) version of Ghostscript. I should change 5.50 to , what is it, 8.80, I think ? Anyway, I repaired that link and carried out the following operations (using Verdana-BoldItalic as an example): cd /usr/share/fonts/msfonts no such directory /usr/share/fonts/9x15.pcf.gz /usr/share/fonts/bitmap/ /usr/share/fonts/console8x16.pcf.gz /usr/share/fonts/default/ /usr/share/fonts/elmar_scalable/ /usr/share/fonts/otf/ /usr/share/fonts/ttf/ /usr/share/fonts/afms/ /usr/share/fonts/chinese/ /usr/share/fonts/console8x8.pcf.gz /usr/share/fonts/elmar/ /usr/share/fonts/fonts.dir /usr/share/fonts/override/ # Generate Type1 fonts from TrueType ./ttf2pt1 -e verdanaz.ttf verdanaz # Copy the font metric file to ghostscript cp verdanaz.afm /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript # Copy the ASCII font file to ghostscript cp verdanaz.pfa /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript cd /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript Then, edit the Fontmap file. /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript/Fontmap is empty Insert the following line in the end section, using tabs as separators, not spaces: /Verdana-BoldItalic (verdanaz.pfa) ; % 5066571 The font alias at the beginning of the line must match exactly the name held in the font files and it is this which should appear in the postscript file itself with the findfont directive. Your document generator should handle this automatically if given the correct name. e.g. /Verdana-BoldItalic findfont 14 scalefont ISOEncode setfont The line %%DocumentNeededResources: font Verdana-BoldItalic appears in the document header. I feel a bit of a fool for taking so long to find such a simple solution to this problem. Time to get a life I think. Are you working with M9.0 ? No, 8.2, but 9.0 has the broken Fontmap link. The msfonts directory is one I created to store downloaded MS TrueType fonts. I think that my Fontmap was resurrected from Fontmap.GS in the installed Ghostscript tree. And, yes, the 5.50 is the cause of the broken link. It should be 6.53 in Mandrake 8.2, possibly 8.80 in your case. -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Len Lawrence -- Never argue with a fool -- people might not be able to tell the difference. -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CUPS: importing fonts
On Sun, 9 Mar 2003 22:56:45 +1300
Michael Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, 09 Mar 2003 19:51, Len Lawrence wrote:
On Wed, 05 Mar 2003 10:54:11 +
John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Len Lawrence wrote:
all snipped --
Understanding linux printer setup is not easy, and
so here is my best try,
-- snip snip snip --
Ladies, Gentleman, and script kiddies. Done it! Retreading old
ground, I discovered the exact prescription to allow ghostscript to
locate the new fonts for postscript files. Since gv was unable to
render them either, I figured that it was purely a ghostscript problem
- nothing to do with CUPS. GS finds the font resources in the
ghostscript and Type1 directories under /usr/share/fonts/defaults.
Indexing is performed through a Fontmap file in ./ghostscript, but in
Mandrake 8.2 and 9.0 this is a bad link, pointing to lib/Fontmap.GS in
the ghostscript installation directories. This was probably the case
with 8.1 also, and may be carried into 9.1. The link references the
wrong (older) version of Ghostscript. Anyway, I repaired that link
and carried out the following operations (using Verdana-BoldItalic as
an example):
cd /usr/share/fonts/msfonts
# Generate Type1 fonts from TrueType
./ttf2pt1 -e verdanaz.ttf verdanaz
# Copy the font metric file to ghostscript
cp verdanaz.afm /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript
# Copy the ASCII font file to ghostscript
cp verdanaz.pfa /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript
cd /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript
Then, edit the Fontmap file. Insert the following line in the end
section, using tabs as separators, not spaces:
/Verdana-BoldItalic (verdanaz.pfa) ; % 5066571
The font alias at the beginning of the line must match exactly the
name held in the font files and it is this which should appear in the
postscript file itself with the findfont directive. Your document
generator should handle this automatically if given the correct name.
e.g. /Verdana-BoldItalic findfont 14 scalefont ISOEncode setfont
The line
%%DocumentNeededResources: font Verdana-BoldItalic
appears in the document header.
I feel a bit of a fool for taking so long to find such a simple solution
to this problem. Time to get a life I think.
Simple, what weed am i smokin'. I do not understand f a about what you wrote,
except i recognise a full stop at the end of every sentence.
Seeing as you have just become the authority on the matter could you slow
this down to about half speed. Then poke it on a web space and post a link to
it. Else, give it to me direct, at half speed. I will post it on a website
for you.
I'll get back to you on this Michael. And believe me, I'm no expert.
Not many people ever have the need to examine PostScript files or look
inside the standard printing interfaces. PostScript itself is a dialect
of Forth, which only programmers need to know about, a stack based language
which I remember vaguely from my lab days testing stepper motors. AFAIK it
deals with two stacks, commands and data and comes with a dictionary of
prewritten commands and definitions. When loaded it becomes the operating
system and can be extended at will. Everything is in Reverse Polish notation,
which makes it a little difficult to read.
Straying off the point a bit here. Will be in touch. Always short of time.
24/7 care for my wife, stuck in a wheelchair with MS.
--
Len Lawrence
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Re: [newbie] CUPS: importing fonts
On Wed, 05 Mar 2003 10:54:11 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Len Lawrence wrote: all snipped -- Understanding linux printer setup is not easy, and so here is my best try, -- snip snip snip -- Ladies, Gentleman, and script kiddies. Done it! Retreading old ground, I discovered the exact prescription to allow ghostscript to locate the new fonts for postscript files. Since gv was unable to render them either, I figured that it was purely a ghostscript problem - nothing to do with CUPS. GS finds the font resources in the ghostscript and Type1 directories under /usr/share/fonts/defaults. Indexing is performed through a Fontmap file in ./ghostscript, but in Mandrake 8.2 and 9.0 this is a bad link, pointing to lib/Fontmap.GS in the ghostscript installation directories. This was probably the case with 8.1 also, and may be carried into 9.1. The link references the wrong (older) version of Ghostscript. Anyway, I repaired that link and carried out the following operations (using Verdana-BoldItalic as an example): cd /usr/share/fonts/msfonts # Generate Type1 fonts from TrueType ./ttf2pt1 -e verdanaz.ttf verdanaz # Copy the font metric file to ghostscript cp verdanaz.afm /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript # Copy the ASCII font file to ghostscript cp verdanaz.pfa /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript cd /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript Then, edit the Fontmap file. Insert the following line in the end section, using tabs as separators, not spaces: /Verdana-BoldItalic (verdanaz.pfa) ; % 5066571 The font alias at the beginning of the line must match exactly the name held in the font files and it is this which should appear in the postscript file itself with the findfont directive. Your document generator should handle this automatically if given the correct name. e.g. /Verdana-BoldItalic findfont 14 scalefont ISOEncode setfont The line %%DocumentNeededResources: font Verdana-BoldItalic appears in the document header. I feel a bit of a fool for taking so long to find such a simple solution to this problem. Time to get a life I think. -- Len Lawrence -- Never argue with a fool -- people might not be able to tell the difference. -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CUPS: importing fonts
Len Lawrence wrote: On Wed, 05 Mar 2003 10:54:11 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Len Lawrence wrote: Thanks for your comments John. I agree that printing is a complex issue which probably explains why LX Format has not replied. If in two years research I have not been able to find an explanation of how CUPS deals with PostScript fonts then they probably cannot afford the time to follow up my query. It is obviously not something anybody can answer off the top of their head. So I will continue poking around. Thanks also for the information re PCL5 and PCL3. I had not come across that. The printer is an HP Deskjet 940C by the way. HP deskjet940C ought to be supported, most of the HP inkjet printers are. I have an old HP670C which works quite well, but is a very noisy shake rattle and roll printer, compared to my Lexmark Z51 + Z52's. I would be surprized if HP 940C is not supported, or have I misunderstood, perhaps it does work but you need more fonts ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CUPS: importing fonts
On Thursday 06 Mar 2003 9:03 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Len Lawrence wrote: On Wed, 05 Mar 2003 10:54:11 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Len Lawrence wrote: Thanks for your comments John. I agree that printing is a complex issue which probably explains why LX Format has not replied. If in two years research I have not been able to find an explanation of how CUPS deals with PostScript fonts then they probably cannot afford the time to follow up my query. It is obviously not something anybody can answer off the top of their head. So I will continue poking around. Thanks also for the information re PCL5 and PCL3. I had not come across that. The printer is an HP Deskjet 940C by the way. HP deskjet940C ought to be supported, most of the HP inkjet printers are. I have an old HP670C which works quite well, but is a very noisy shake rattle and roll printer, compared to my Lexmark Z51 + Z52's. I would be surprized if HP 940C is not supported, or have I misunderstood, perhaps it does work but you need more fonts ? IIRC the 940 is a slower version of the 990, which I use. I have no problems per se, but different programs have different capabilities in handling fonts and complex layouts. Have you tried the same output in a different package? It would tell you, perhaps, whether that is the source of your problem. Oddly enough I find OO.o better on my system than SO6 in handling these things. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] CUPS doesn't list my printer under MDK9
Hi Y'all, Just installed Mandrake 9.0 and was very pleased with it up to the point I tried to configure my printer, a Canon bjc 4200. The new version of CUPS doesn't list it. I tried using the bjc 4300 driver with horrendous results (giant sized print) and then tried the bjc30 driver which produced proper sized print albeit a bit on the light side. Has anyone on the list had this problem and managed to solve it? Would it be possible to lift the driver from an earlier version of CUPS? (I had it in MDK 8.2) or is there another driver that perhaps will give better results than the one I'm using? Thanks guys, -- Graham Watkins For me, morning begins when I realize that the soft warm body curled up next to me is a cat. (Kinky Friedman - Frequent Flyer) Registered Linux user number 265254 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CUPS doesn't list my printer under MDK9
On Thursday 06 Mar 2003 8:36 pm, Graham Watkins wrote: Hi Y'all, Just installed Mandrake 9.0 and was very pleased with it up to the point I tried to configure my printer, a Canon bjc 4200. The new version of CUPS doesn't list it. I tried using the bjc 4300 driver with horrendous results (giant sized print) and then tried the bjc30 driver which produced proper sized print albeit a bit on the light side. Has anyone on the list had this problem and managed to solve it? Would it be possible to lift the driver from an earlier version of CUPS? (I had it in MDK 8.2) or is there another driver that perhaps will give better results than the one I'm using? Thanks guys, Try Turboprint It is free (as in beer) for personal use and is said to work well with Canon printers. http://www.turboprint.de/english.html derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CUPS: importing fonts
Len Lawrence wrote: The importing fonts to CUPS saga continues. Please bear with me - this has turned into quite an essay. There must be somebody here who understands how CUPS references Type1 fonts. I have a problem which has resisted solution for well over two years now. No help from the CUPS documentation, which comes in eleven volumes, nor from www.linuxprinting.org, or from any other source. Linux Format Magazine has refused to respond to two enquiries about this, nor has anybody on this list responded to previous pleas for help. I post this in the hope that some expert might be browsing the list and willing to shine a little light on this shadowy corner of the UNIX world. Any answer needs to be useful in the context of Mandrake and portable from 8.2 to 9.* - I gather that there has been a recent change in the way that CUPS and Ghostscript interact. My specific problem is adding more typefaces to PostScript files generated from one of my home grown applications; i.e. the file might reference Andale Mono, Verdana, Tahoma, Densmore or whatever. Yes, I do have a Window$ licence, OS not installed. These are all available to X and to OpenOffice.org but not apparently to CUPS, and CUPS does not appear to have a regular mechanism for importing fonts. Presumably everything has to be done by hand. I have converted the TrueType fonts to Type1 .pfb files and placed these in the /usr/share/cups/fonts directory under the names, for example Verdana, AndaleMono, Verdana-Bold, etc, in imitation of the existing font names (and restarted CUPS) but they still print as the default Courier typeface. The default set of fonts are listed in the PPD file in /etc/cups/ppd but it is not clear how font information should be added to this file. The meaning of the various fields is not documented. This may all be nonsense. Maybe the font files should go somewhere in the Ghostscript font path together with fonts.dir, fonts.scale and fonts.alias files. I really don't have a clue. Before I sign off, this is my impression of how CUPS works: lpr - CUPS - GS filter PPD || || pstoraster - driver | | spooler? - printer This again may be wrong. Please correct me somebody. In words; a postscript file, for instance, is given to lpr aka lpr-cups which passes it on to Ghostscript for filtering (if it were raw text it would be converted to PostScript format). If the printer is not PostScript capable, the file is fed to the rasterization section which generates a bitmap of the printed page. This then goes to a printer specific driver which converts it into a series of graphics commands native to the printer. The driver may consult the PPD file for defined or allowed options as well and the result is delivered to the spooler which stores it on disk for a while before it, or some other daemon, dumps it to the printer. Somewhere in there the system must try to locate the font resource specified in the PostScript file, but where exactly, and what form does the resource take? All this has taken up far more than the 3.5 minutes I have to spare each day (and I am not kidding) so help would be appreciated and would surely be of interest to other members of the list. Understanding linux printer setup is not easy, and so here is my best try, The natural output of Linux print commands is in Printer Control Language 5 (PCL5) , while most dos inkjet printers rastorize the image files in Printer Control Language 3 (PCL3) to accomodate this problem Ghostscript converts PCL5 to PCL3. To speak of ghostscript as drivers is something of a misnomer, as it's a conversion programme. Your dos inkjet printer has a rastor image processor chip in PCL3 and a certain amount of buffer as well but as I understand it the control of the page setup is what PPD does. LPD is the local printer daemon and generates the PCL5 image file , I think? and the image file is processed through to ghostscript where the conversion to PCL3 is accomplished, using so called backend filters. Somewhere in all this is Foomatic , which I have never yet come across an explanation of. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CUPS: importing fonts
On Wed, 05 Mar 2003 10:54:11 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Len Lawrence wrote: The importing fonts to CUPS saga continues. Please bear with me - this has turned into quite an essay. --- big snip Understanding linux printer setup is not easy, and so here is my best try, The natural output of Linux print commands is in Printer Control Language 5 (PCL5) , while most dos inkjet printers rastorize the image files in Printer Control Language 3 (PCL3) to accomodate this problem Ghostscript converts PCL5 to PCL3. To speak of ghostscript as drivers is something of a misnomer, as it's a conversion programme. Your dos inkjet printer has a rastor image processor chip in PCL3 and a certain amount of buffer as well but as I understand it the control of the page setup is what PPD does. LPD is the local printer daemon and generates the PCL5 image file , I think? and the image file is processed through to ghostscript where the conversion to PCL3 is accomplished, using so called backend filters. Somewhere in all this is Foomatic , which I have never yet come across an explanation of. Thanks for your comments John. I agree that printing is a complex issue which probably explains why LX Format has not replied. If in two years research I have not been able to find an explanation of how CUPS deals with PostScript fonts then they probably cannot afford the time to follow up my query. It is obviously not something anybody can answer off the top of their head. So I will continue poking around. Let's see, at 3.5 minutes a day, I might be getting somewhere by 2025. You can all look forward to my article on printing and font handling in LX Format then g. Thanks also for the information re PCL5 and PCL3. I had not come across that. The printer is an HP Deskjet 940C by the way. The PPD file contains a list of default fonts which is reflected in a set of .pfb files in /usr/share/cups/fonts. It should be possible to use these two resources to add new fonts - not clear how though. Any changes seem to be ignored by CUPS. It is not even possible to get it to accept a change in the default typeface, say from Courier to Helvetica. Cheers mate -- Len Lawrence -- Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them. -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] CUPS: importing fonts
The importing fonts to CUPS saga continues. Please bear with me - this has turned into quite an essay. There must be somebody here who understands how CUPS references Type1 fonts. I have a problem which has resisted solution for well over two years now. No help from the CUPS documentation, which comes in eleven volumes, nor from www.linuxprinting.org, or from any other source. Linux Format Magazine has refused to respond to two enquiries about this, nor has anybody on this list responded to previous pleas for help. I post this in the hope that some expert might be browsing the list and willing to shine a little light on this shadowy corner of the UNIX world. Any answer needs to be useful in the context of Mandrake and portable from 8.2 to 9.* - I gather that there has been a recent change in the way that CUPS and Ghostscript interact. My specific problem is adding more typefaces to PostScript files generated from one of my home grown applications; i.e. the file might reference Andale Mono, Verdana, Tahoma, Densmore or whatever. Yes, I do have a Window$ licence, OS not installed. These are all available to X and to OpenOffice.org but not apparently to CUPS, and CUPS does not appear to have a regular mechanism for importing fonts. Presumably everything has to be done by hand. I have converted the TrueType fonts to Type1 .pfb files and placed these in the /usr/share/cups/fonts directory under the names, for example Verdana, AndaleMono, Verdana-Bold, etc, in imitation of the existing font names (and restarted CUPS) but they still print as the default Courier typeface. The default set of fonts are listed in the PPD file in /etc/cups/ppd but it is not clear how font information should be added to this file. The meaning of the various fields is not documented. This may all be nonsense. Maybe the font files should go somewhere in the Ghostscript font path together with fonts.dir, fonts.scale and fonts.alias files. I really don't have a clue. Before I sign off, this is my impression of how CUPS works: lpr - CUPS - GS filter PPD || || pstoraster - driver | | spooler? - printer This again may be wrong. Please correct me somebody. In words; a postscript file, for instance, is given to lpr aka lpr-cups which passes it on to Ghostscript for filtering (if it were raw text it would be converted to PostScript format). If the printer is not PostScript capable, the file is fed to the rasterization section which generates a bitmap of the printed page. This then goes to a printer specific driver which converts it into a series of graphics commands native to the printer. The driver may consult the PPD file for defined or allowed options as well and the result is delivered to the spooler which stores it on disk for a while before it, or some other daemon, dumps it to the printer. Somewhere in there the system must try to locate the font resource specified in the PostScript file, but where exactly, and what form does the resource take? All this has taken up far more than the 3.5 minutes I have to spare each day (and I am not kidding) so help would be appreciated and would surely be of interest to other members of the list. -- Len Lawrence -- Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them. -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cups problems
On Monday 27 Jan 2003 9:44 am, Colin Jenkins wrote: On Mon, 27 Jan 2003 09:02:49 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know the feeling :) Have you tried deleting the unwanted printers in MCC? Tried deleting from cups, webmin and KDE printing manager, same result. I guess it's the mandrake version of microsofts way of doing thing it's determined that at some time in the future, I WILL need these extra printers g It's still worth deleting them in Mandrake Control Centre. I think it will work - it did for me. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cups problems
On Sunday 26 January 2003 08:36, Colin Jenkins wrote: I have 2 linux boxes (mdk9) both using 2 printers on an NT box. on one box, trying to delete a print job with cups, no problems, on the other box, I get 'client-error-forbidden'. (even when logged on as root) I am also unable to delete some non-existant printers from both machines, they appear to delete, but when I reload, they are back again. anyone got any ideas (relevant of course) :) try copying the file /etc/cups/cupsd.conf from the machine that behaves correctly to the other one. might help. Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cups problems
On Monday 27 January 2003 09:04 am, Damian Gatabria wrote: On Sunday 26 January 2003 08:36, Colin Jenkins wrote: I have 2 linux boxes (mdk9) both using 2 printers on an NT box. on one box, trying to delete a print job with cups, no problems, on the other box, I get 'client-error-forbidden'. (even when logged on as root) I am also unable to delete some non-existant printers from both machines, they appear to delete, but when I reload, they are back again. anyone got any ideas (relevant of course) :) try copying the file /etc/cups/cupsd.conf from the machine that behaves correctly to the other one. might help. Damian only the printer server, where the printer is connected to the lpt, is running linux when I have the problem, and it prints fine linux to linux, only problem is win2k or winme to linux Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cups problems
damn that was stupid of me I hijacked someone elses thread... so sorry please disreguard my reply On Monday 27 January 2003 12:10 pm, et wrote: On Monday 27 January 2003 09:04 am, Damian Gatabria wrote: On Sunday 26 January 2003 08:36, Colin Jenkins wrote: I have 2 linux boxes (mdk9) both using 2 printers on an NT box. on one box, trying to delete a print job with cups, no problems, on the other box, I get 'client-error-forbidden'. (even when logged on as root) I am also unable to delete some non-existant printers from both machines, they appear to delete, but when I reload, they are back again. anyone got any ideas (relevant of course) :) try copying the file /etc/cups/cupsd.conf from the machine that behaves correctly to the other one. might help. Damian only the printer server, where the printer is connected to the lpt, is running linux when I have the problem, and it prints fine linux to linux, only problem is win2k or winme to linux Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] cups problems
I have 2 linux boxes (mdk9) both using 2 printers on an NT box. on one box, trying to delete a print job with cups, no problems, on the other box, I get 'client-error-forbidden'. (even when logged on as root) I am also unable to delete some non-existant printers from both machines, they appear to delete, but when I reload, they are back again. anyone got any ideas (relevant of course) :) -- 7:00pm up 1:20, 2 users, load average: 1.02, 1.17, 1.14 A Parable of Modern Research: Bob has lost his keys in a room which is dark except for one brightly lit corner. Why are you looking under the light, you lost them in the dark! I can only see here. ..registered linux user #223862 .. _ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cups problems
On Sunday 26 Jan 2003 8:36 am, Colin Jenkins wrote: I have 2 linux boxes (mdk9) both using 2 printers on an NT box. on one box, trying to delete a print job with cups, no problems, on the other box, I get 'client-error-forbidden'. (even when logged on as root) I am also unable to delete some non-existant printers from both machines, they appear to delete, but when I reload, they are back again. anyone got any ideas (relevant of course) :) I've had that often in the past. First reaction is to thrash about ;) However, IIRC the solution was to logout and login again - presumably it does some cleanup - after which they can be deleted. I'm not sure, though, whether I deleted in the cups admin program or KLpq - I think it would be the cups admin program. HTH Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cups problems
On Sun, 26 Jan 2003 11:23:18 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've had that often in the past. First reaction is to thrash about ;) However, IIRC the solution was to logout and login again - presumably neither logging out or rebooting helped, reinstalled and everything seems ok so far... still got printers I can't delete but at least I can print. Sometimes it would be nice to know what the cause was rather than just stumbling around in the dark. :/ -- 6:00pm up 18:30, 2 users, load average: 0.39, 0.38, 0.30 If any man wishes to be humbled and mortified, let him become president of Harvard. -- Edward Holyoke ..registered linux user #223862 .. _ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] CUPS hangs on boot
On 9.0, amd k6-2, Canon bubblejet connected via USB. When it boots, it gets to where it starts CUPS and just hangs. Has anybody experienced this, or where should I look to find out what the problem is? (This isn't for me, and I don't have a printer, so I no nothing about troubleshooting printers.) TIA, Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CUPS hangs on boot
On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 03:04, Todd Slater wrote: On 9.0, amd k6-2, Canon bubblejet connected via USB. When it boots, it gets to where it starts CUPS and just hangs. Has anybody experienced this, or where should I look to find out what the problem is? (This isn't for me, and I don't have a printer, so I no nothing about troubleshooting printers.) TIA, Todd It could be that the tcp port is being either blocked or is in use - I've had that happen before...after you've successfully booted, open a terminal and do a: service cups --full-restart ...see what the errors are there (or do a tail -n50 /var/log/messages) -- Tue Jan 21 07:00:00 EST 2003 7:00am up 4 days, 16:43, 5 users, load average: 0.09, 0.20, 0.16 -- |____ | kuhn media australia| | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | | ;/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389| | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | -- linux user:267497 * RH 8.0 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting -- The New York Times is read by the people who run the country. The Washington Post is read by the people who think they run the country. The National Enquirer is read by the people who think Elvis is alive and running the country ... -- Robert J Woodhead Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Cups not working on my box any longer
On Saturday 04 January 2003 23:17, william stinson wrote: Hi I some how appear to have mucked up the CUPS printing facility on my box (probably due to some configuration error I must have made recently). It was working fine before. The symptom appears to be that the daemon cannot bind to the socket (port 631 I suppose). I found the answer in an article about CUPS on mandrake forum. The URL is http://mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=2507lang=en I had a problem with cups dying after start, I also use DHCP with a cable modem. The /var/log/cups/error_log reported that it could not bind to port. I went to /etc/cups/cupd.conf and found that in addition to localhost, cups was also trying to use my IP address, the one first found during install and my hostname. I removed all entries for anything other than my localhost 127.0.0.1 and Voila! a working printer. My problem was the same - cups was using my ethernet address on my local network as well as localhost and trying to connect to port 631 of both. The connection to localhost was working fine but it couldn't connect to the ethernet address and was therefore aborting. With the cups configuration file changed to remove all references to my ethernet IP address everything worked! Best regards William Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Cups not working on my box any longer
Hi I some how appear to have mucked up the CUPS printing facility on my box (probably due to some configuration error I must have made recently). It was working fine before. The symptom appears to be that the daemon cannot bind to the socket (port 631 I suppose). Anyone any idea what could be going wrong (or suggestion on how to narrow down the problem further)? More information available on request William Stinson [root@localpc billy]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/cups start Starting CUPS printing system: [ OK ] [root@localpc billy]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/cups status cupsd is stopped [root@localpc billy]# tail /var/log/cups/error_log I [04/Jan/2003:22:23:46 +0100] LoadPPDs: Read /etc/cups/ppds.dat, 730 PPDs... I [04/Jan/2003:22:23:46 +0100] LoadPPDs: No new or changed PPDs... E [04/Jan/2003:22:23:48 +0100] StartListening: Unable to bind socket - Cannot assign requested address. I [04/Jan/2003:23:03:51 +0100] Listening to 7f01:631 I [04/Jan/2003:23:03:51 +0100] Listening to c0a80401:631 I [04/Jan/2003:23:03:51 +0100] Sending browsing info to c0a801ff:631 I [04/Jan/2003:23:03:51 +0100] Configured for up to 100 clients. I [04/Jan/2003:23:03:51 +0100] LoadPPDs: Read /etc/cups/ppds.dat, 730 PPDs... I [04/Jan/2003:23:03:51 +0100] LoadPPDs: No new or changed PPDs... E [04/Jan/2003:23:03:53 +0100] StartListening: Unable to bind socket - Cannot assign requested address. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Cups not working on my box any longer
On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 09:17, william stinson wrote: Hi I some how appear to have mucked up the CUPS printing facility on my box (probably due to some configuration error I must have made recently). It was working fine before. The symptom appears to be that the daemon cannot bind to the socket (port 631 I suppose). Anyone any idea what could be going wrong (or suggestion on how to narrow down the problem further)? More information available on request William Stinson [root@localpc billy]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/cups start Starting CUPS printing system: [ OK ] [root@localpc billy]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/cups status cupsd is stopped [root@localpc billy]# tail /var/log/cups/error_log I [04/Jan/2003:22:23:46 +0100] LoadPPDs: Read /etc/cups/ppds.dat, 730 PPDs... I [04/Jan/2003:22:23:46 +0100] LoadPPDs: No new or changed PPDs... E [04/Jan/2003:22:23:48 +0100] StartListening: Unable to bind socket - Cannot assign requested address. I [04/Jan/2003:23:03:51 +0100] Listening to 7f01:631 I [04/Jan/2003:23:03:51 +0100] Listening to c0a80401:631 I [04/Jan/2003:23:03:51 +0100] Sending browsing info to c0a801ff:631 I [04/Jan/2003:23:03:51 +0100] Configured for up to 100 clients. I [04/Jan/2003:23:03:51 +0100] LoadPPDs: Read /etc/cups/ppds.dat, 730 PPDs... I [04/Jan/2003:23:03:51 +0100] LoadPPDs: No new or changed PPDs... E [04/Jan/2003:23:03:53 +0100] StartListening: Unable to bind socket - Cannot assign requested address. I remember mucking up CUPS myself - but had to restart Apache and something else...brain fart...not enough coffee this morning... -- Sun Jan 5 09:20:00 EST 2003 9:20am up 12:28, 5 users, load average: 0.57, 0.20, 0.23 kuhn media australia - kma.0catch.com - stephen kuhn - katherine kuhn - berkeley, nsw, au email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] icq: 5483808 - mobile: 0410-728-389 -PC/Mac/Linux/Consulting/eMarketing- * linux user: 267497 * rh 7.3+ * My dear People. My dear Bagginses and Boffins, and my dear Tooks and Brandybucks, and Grubbs, and Chubbs, and Burrowses, and Hornblowers, and Bolgers, Bracegirdles, Goodbodies, Brockhouses and Proudfoots. Also my good Sackville Bagginses that I welcome back at last to Bag End. Today is my one hundred and eleventh birthday: I am eleventy-one today! -- J. R. R. Tolkien Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Cups..works on LM8.1, LM8.2 but not LM9
I've been trying every combination possible to get CUPS on LM9 to print to a shared printer on a windows machine. On setting up the printer in printerdrake, On LM8.1 it worked first time. On LM8.2 with the same settings it worked first time. On LM9 it just sits there and laughs at me, with the same settings as LM8.1 and LM8.2. And how do i remove a default printer it thinks it has but isn't there ? The printer on the remote windoz machine i'm trying to print to is a HP1100. The default printer it thinks it has is also a HP1100, but has it down as its own ip address, and not the ip address of the machine that actually has the printer. Last night i tried setting up an Epson 1160, also connected to a windows machine. LM8.1 set it up, and out pops a test page. LM8.2 set it up, and out pops a test page. On LM9nothing, again just sits there, says the printer is printing, says its ready. but prints bugger all. LM9.. Aaarh nothing. Anybody had this problem many thanks ps is it possible to set up a LM box so that students print from a windows machine to the samba box, and then the samba box sends it to another windows machine to actually be printed. I need only selected students to use the printer ( otherwise the little buggers sneak in and empty all the cartridges, then sneak out again ) Many thanks Mr Smiley Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CUPS hangup
El jue, 14-11-2002 a las 14:34, Anne Wilson escribió: For some peculiar reason every time I try to print I am having problems. The printer starts OK, but hangs part way down the page. It is as though the print is not spooling, and drawing direct so that the slightest thing interferes with it. Has anyone got a fix for this? My printer (a Brother MFC 4500ML) would also hang midpage with anything but the most simple documents. It turns out that I didn't have enough memory in the printer, and installing more solved the problem. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://www.srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CUPS Help
On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 06:40, Tom wrote: I have searched the web, read CUPS documents, and still cannnot find the answer. Or maybe I am over looking it somewhere. I have a XEROX document centre machine that I am trying to print to. In RH7.3 I set it up as a unix printer 204.xxx.xxx.xxx with que name lp and it worked just fine as an lpr printer. (NOT CUPS). Tried this in CUPS and it will not work on the Mandrake 9.0 machine. Am I just ingnorant or do I need to be doing something else in CUPS? Is CUPS running as a service on that machine? If the service isn't running, then you're not going to be able to print mate. -- Thu Nov 14 07:40:01 EST 2002 |____ | | / \ /| |'-. | | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | | | / \__.`=._) (_ |kuhn media australia | |/ ._/ || |http://kma.0catch.com | |'. `\ | | |stephen kuhn | ;/ / | | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | smk ) /_/| |.---.| |mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' |linux user:267497 Laetrile is the pits. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CUPS Help
I like CUPS. It seems when I tried any of the other alternatives, set-up didn't always work, or I couldn't control the look of my non-PS printers through the print server as well. I think it's starnge that every time that I access the CUPS server through MCC, it asks for Disk 1 to load necessary files. Go figure! Still, it seems to work well for me. Glad it worked for you, too. T :-) - Original Message - From: Tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 2:31 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] CUPS Help Well it did not go as smooth as I thought, but I finally got it. It first asked me to insert Disk 1 and then said error downloading package. It was not searching the disk, it was connecting to an FTP site. So I went to Mandrake Update and found some Bugfixes for CUPS. Installed them and then the printer install worked. I was impressed the way in installed the printer after I worked out the above issue. Thanks for you help. Tom, CUPS, in my very limited opinion, the best for easy and control in setting up an LPD printer. 1) Go into Mandrake Control Center | Hardware | Printer to set up CUPS. It may ask for CD #1 to load necessary files. 2) Click on 'Expert Mode'. I could not set-up my print server in 'Normal Mode'. 3) Click on 'Add a printer' 4) Click on 'Printer on remote lpd server' 5) Fill out printer name and description. Location can be left blank. 6) In 'Remote host name', you can either put in the IP address of the NIC in your printer, or the host name you wish to give it. Keep in mind that if you give the printer a host name (like 'xerox' or 'printer'), you will need to add an entry in /etc/hosts with the name and IP address for name resolution over the network. In the second box, you would give the specific printer's name under the server. I think that you would leave this blank. 7) Pick your printer driver. The rest is easy enough. Does this sound like what you did? If is what you did before, let me know. I am sure we can figure it out. The key is that the device is supported. What are called 'all-in-wonder' printers are those that are multi-function units. I have an HP Laserjet 3100 that must have software support to drive it. I don't use it this way, but if I did want to use it as a printer in MDK 8.2 or 9.0, there's a specific software package that comes on the distro CDs for this model. I have no idea how the others are supported, or if they are. You got it to work once before. It should now. It wouldn't hurt to make sure that 'foomatic' is also loaded on your system, and when choosing the drivers for your printer, make sure to choose one that is a combination of 'CUPS' and 'foomatic'. Does this help you any? T - Original Message - From: Tom mailto:duffer;usa.net To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:newbie;linux-mandrake.com Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 2:40 PM Subject: [newbie] CUPS Help I have searched the web, read CUPS documents, and still cannnot find the answer. Or maybe I am over looking it somewhere. I have a XEROX document centre machine that I am trying to print to. In RH7.3 I set it up as a unix printer 204.xxx.xxx.xxx with que name lp and it worked just fine as an lpr printer. (NOT CUPS). Tried this in CUPS and it will not work on the Mandrake 9.0 machine. Am I just ingnorant or do I need to be doing something else in CUPS? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] CUPS Help
I have searched the web, read CUPS documents, and still cannnot find the answer. Or maybe I am over looking it somewhere. I have a XEROX document centre machine that I am trying to print to. In RH7.3 I set it up as a unix printer 204.xxx.xxx.xxx with que name lp and it worked just fine as an lpr printer. (NOT CUPS). Tried this in CUPS and it will not work on the Mandrake 9.0 machine. Am I just ingnorant or do I need to be doing something else in CUPS?
Re: [newbie] CUPS Help
Thank,s I don,t know about his but mine had picked up the wrong drivers before the update and you sure helped me. JOE Tom, CUPS, in my very limited opinion, the best for easy and control in setting up an LPD printer. 1) Go into Mandrake Control Center | Hardware | Printer to set up CUPS. It may ask for CD #1 to load necessary files. 2) Click on 'Expert Mode'. I could not set-up my print server in 'Normal Mode'. 3) Click on 'Add a printer' 4) Click on 'Printer on remote lpd server' 5) Fill out printer name and description. Location can be left blank. 6) In 'Remote host name', you can either put in the IP address of the NIC in your printer, or the host name you wish to give it. Keep in mind that if you give the printer a host name (like 'xerox' or 'printer'), you will need to add an entry in /etc/hosts with the name and IP address for name resolution over the network. In the second box, you would give the specific printer's name under the server. I think that you would leave this blank. 7) Pick your printer driver. The rest is easy enough. Does this sound like what you did? If is what you did before, let me know. I am sure we can figure it out. The key is that the device is supported. What are called 'all-in-wonder' printers are those that are multi-function units. I have an HP Laserjet 3100 that must have software support to drive it. I don't use it this way, but if I did want to use it as a printer in MDK 8.2 or 9.0, there's a specific software package that comes on the distro CDs for this model. I have no idea how the others are supported, or if they are. You got it to work once before. It should now. It wouldn't hurt to make sure that 'foomatic' is also loaded on your system, and when choosing the drivers for your printer, make sure to choose one that is a combination of 'CUPS' and 'foomatic'. Does this help you any? T - Original Message - From: Tom To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 2:40 PM Subject: [newbie] CUPS Help I have searched the web, read CUPS documents, and still cannnot find the answer. Or maybe I am over looking it somewhere. I have a XEROX document centre machine that I am trying to print to. In RH7.3 I set it up as a unix printer 204.xxx.xxx.xxx with que name lp and it worked just fine as an lpr printer. (NOT CUPS). Tried this in CUPS and it will not work on the Mandrake 9.0 machine. Am I just ingnorant or do I need to be doing something else in CUPS? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CUPS Help
I'm using Mandrake 9.0, having recently upgraded from 8.2 where I had a working print system. My printer is attached to a different computer (WinXP) on my home network. In 8.2 I just used komba2 to find shared printers and everything just worked once I had located it. When I upgraded to 9.0, however, my print services went away. I really have no idea whether CUPS was being utilized with my 8.2 setup or not (it was working so I didn't mess with it) but when I saw this thread and these directions I attempted to follow them. That's when I realized my CUPS installation is probably hosed because I couldn't get past step 1. When I go to Mandrake Control Center | Hardware | Printer it shows me a pop up that says that it's looking for installed software. That quickly goes away and then the content window for Mandrake Control Center goes blank and stays that way. On the off chance that it's actually doing something, I've let it sit that way for as long as 20 minutes with no change but when I try to select a different area like Boot or even Hardware again, it tells me that the changes haven't been saved. I usually wind up cancelling and then closing down the Control Center. Would you suggest that I attempt to reinstall CUPS or is there possibly a simpler solution? I have to admit that, although I've used Linux off and on since '95, the print system is still a black box to me. In the past, whether I was using Slackware, RedHat, or Mandrake, I've always just installed the distro and prayed that the printer worked so I wouldn't have to dive into it. I'm very comfortable with editing config files, compiling software packages, or even doing a little Perl or shell scripting if need be, but I've never been able to find a good overview of where everything is in Linux (and specifically the Mandrake distro) and how it all fits together. It may be that I wasn't looking in the right places. :-) Any pointers you have as to where I could find clear documentation on the print services for Mandrake would be appreciated. Maybe I don't know what I'm asking, but I'm interested in something that covers more than just how to use the GUI tools that are included in the distro, if possible. Thanks for any help you can give me, Carl Technoslick wrote: Tom, CUPS, in my very limited opinion, the best for easy and control in setting up an LPD printer. 1) Go into Mandrake Control Center | Hardware | Printer to set up CUPS. It may ask for CD #1 to load necessary files. 2) Click on 'Expert Mode'. I could not set-up my print server in 'Normal Mode'. 3) Click on 'Add a printer' 4) Click on 'Printer on remote lpd server' 5) Fill out printer name and description. Location can be left blank. 6) In 'Remote host name', you can either put in the IP address of the NIC in your printer, or the host name you wish to give it. Keep in mind that if you give the printer a host name (like 'xerox' or 'printer'), you will need to add an entry in /etc/hosts with the name and IP address for name resolution over the network. In the second box, you would give the specific printer's name under the server. I think that you would leave this blank. 7) Pick your printer driver. The rest is easy enough. Does this sound like what you did? If is what you did before, let me know. I am sure we can figure it out. The key is that the device is supported. What are called 'all-in-wonder' printers are those that are multi-function units. I have an HP Laserjet 3100 that must have software support to drive it. I don't use it this way, but if I did want to use it as a printer in MDK 8.2 or 9.0, there's a specific software package that comes on the distro CDs for this model. I have no idea how the others are supported, or if they are. You got it to work once before. It should now. It wouldn't hurt to make sure that 'foomatic' is also loaded on your system, and when choosing the drivers for your printer, make sure to choose one that is a combination of 'CUPS' and 'foomatic'. Does this help you any? T - Original Message - From: Tom mailto:duffer;usa.net To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:newbie;linux-mandrake.com Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 2:40 PM Subject: [newbie] CUPS Help I have searched the web, read CUPS documents, and still cannnot find the answer. Or maybe I am over looking it somewhere. I have a XEROX document centre machine that I am trying to print to. In RH7.3 I set it up as a unix printer 204.xxx.xxx.xxx with que name lp and it worked just fine as an lpr printer. (NOT CUPS). Tried this in CUPS and it will not work on the Mandrake 9.0 machine. Am I just ingnorant or do I need to be doing something else in CUPS? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] CUPS and 9.0 - no remote access
Installed 9.0 on my server last night. It has a local printer attached which I configured without problems using printerdrake. I can print to it locally but no other machines on the LAN can now access it. Printerdrake on the client machines assures me that there is nothing to configure and remote CUPS printers on the same LAN will magically appear. They don't. I guess this is the usual problem with GUI's - what to do when they don't work. Has anyone met this? Even better fixed it? The setup on the client machines has not been changed, so I guess it's the server which has stopped talking rather than clients not listening. Tried dropping the firewall in case that was interfering, but no change. TIA Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CUPS and 9.0 - no remote access
I had same situation you did and here is how I fixed it. When I open up the MCC to share my net connection with the computers on my lan, the file /etc/cups/cupsd.conf is rewritten so that no one has access to the printer.. not even the root user! So I rewrite it this way: Location / AuthType None Order Deny,Allow Allow From All /Location Location /admin AuthType None Allow From 127.0.0.1 #Allow From All Deny From All Order Deny,Allow /Location So now only the root user can modify the printer config but everyone can see the config (http://127.0.0.1:631) and access the printer. I didn't figure this out all by myself.. the linuxprinting website help a LOT! ..So I recommand everyone having ANY problem with printing to search there. Here is the forum link: http://www.linuxprinting.org/newsportal/ This is where it came from. http://www.club-nihil.net/mub/viewtopic.php?t=5290highlight= On Thursday 17 October 2002 09:03 am, Brian Parish wrote: Installed 9.0 on my server last night. It has a local printer attached which I configured without problems using printerdrake. I can print to it locally but no other machines on the LAN can now access it. Printerdrake on the client machines assures me that there is nothing to configure and remote CUPS printers on the same LAN will magically appear. They don't. I guess this is the usual problem with GUI's - what to do when they don't work. Has anyone met this? Even better fixed it? The setup on the client machines has not been changed, so I guess it's the server which has stopped talking rather than clients not listening. Tried dropping the firewall in case that was interfering, but no change. TIA Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CUPS and 9.0 - no remote access
On Friday 18 Oct 2002 3:03 am, Brian Parish wrote: Installed 9.0 on my server last night. It has a local printer attached which I configured without problems using printerdrake. I can print to it locally but no other machines on the LAN can now access it. Printerdrake on the client machines assures me that there is nothing to configure and remote CUPS printers on the same LAN will magically appear. They don't. I guess this is the usual problem with GUI's - what to do when they don't work. Has anyone met this? Even better fixed it? The setup on the client machines has not been changed, so I guess it's the server which has stopped talking rather than clients not listening. Tried dropping the firewall in case that was interfering, but no change. Got the exact same problem here. I also tried disabling portsentry and the firewall but no go. Hope someone knows a fix for this, I've wasted many hours playing around with this. Will have another look and the cups config files. Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] cups hiccups
I have lots of 8.2 boxes on which cups works just fine. Then there's this other one... As the GUI tools have previously worked for me where cups is concerned, I have never looked beyond them. On the problem box, when I access Hardware Printer under the Control Center, it says that something or someone has set cups to not automatically start at boot and asks if I would like to turn this back on. I answer yes and at the next boot, it fails to start and I can repeat this loop for as long as it seems like fun. (not long) If I go into System Services, I see that cups is not running and not set to start at boot. I can start it from there (and it works), but my attempts to click the On boot button don't stick. i.e. Exit from Control Center then jump back in and the On boot button is off again. This is a standard 8.2 install with only security and bugfix updates applied. Security level is set at Standard (i.e. low). Can anyone point me at the appropriate config files that determine cups starts and stops? TIA Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] CUPS demon wont start?
I am having problems getting CUPS to run after a system reinstall. The log says the following: I [28/Aug/2002:14:05:25 +0100] Listening to 7f01:631 I [28/Aug/2002:14:05:25 +0100] Listening to c0a80064:631 I [28/Aug/2002:14:05:25 +0100] Listening to c0a80064:631 I [28/Aug/2002:14:05:25 +0100] Sending browsing info to c0a800ff:631 I [28/Aug/2002:14:05:25 +0100] Sending browsing info to c0a800ff:631 I [28/Aug/2002:14:05:25 +0100] Configured for up to 100 clients. I [28/Aug/2002:14:05:25 +0100] LoadPPDs: Read /etc/cups/ppds.dat, 12 PPDs... I [28/Aug/2002:14:05:25 +0100] LoadPPDs: No new or changed PPDs... E [28/Aug/2002:14:05:28 +0100] StartListening: Unable to bind socket - Address already in use. I [28/Aug/2002:14:09:57 +0100] Listening to 7f01:631 I [28/Aug/2002:14:09:57 +0100] Listening to c0a80064:631 I [28/Aug/2002:14:09:57 +0100] Listening to c0a80064:631 I [28/Aug/2002:14:09:57 +0100] Sending browsing info to c0a800ff:631 I [28/Aug/2002:14:09:57 +0100] Sending browsing info to c0a800ff:631 I [28/Aug/2002:14:09:57 +0100] Configured for up to 100 clients. I [28/Aug/2002:14:09:57 +0100] LoadPPDs: Read /etc/cups/ppds.dat, 12 PPDs... I [28/Aug/2002:14:09:57 +0100] LoadPPDs: No new or changed PPDs... E [28/Aug/2002:14:10:00 +0100] StartListening: Unable to bind socket - Address already in use. What might be using the socket already? I have no firewall installed. Thanks, Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] CUPS printer bad on reboot
Hello. Mandrake B8.2 plus kde v3.0.1. When I setup the printer, it works fine but fails on the next boot. I searched and saw an article about security levels but they don't apply as I am at standard and have no personal firewall. According to the Software Manager | mandrake update, I am up to date on everything. Any ideas ? Regards... __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better http://health.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CUPS driver for Star Gemini-10X
I am trying to get my venerable Star Gemini-10X working under LM 8.1 and CUPS but cannot find an appropriate driver. The Gemini-10X is a 9 pin You have one of those too ;). I got mine early on in 1984 (back then I was using a TRS890). The printer doesn't work anymore, but IIRC, it's pretty close to 9 pin Epsons of the era. The epson 'emulation' (basically it's an MX-80 clone) is very close to Epson, but there are subtle differences when using graphics -- specifically the dot widths are spaced differently with Epson as compared to the 10X. This led me to briefly contribute printer definition files when I was working at Symantec back in 1986. The printer expired long before I was introduced to Linux, but I think yuo will have some cussess witht he Epson 9 pin drivers: specifically 'eps9high' in GhostScript. I recommend starting small, perhaps try printing test pages with Ghostscript using that driver. If it works correctly, you might try CUPS with the appropriate printer driver. You may get discernable vertical spaces in the output using the Epson 9 pin drivers though - that's the effect of the spacing differences in the Gemini 10X. Warren Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] CUPS driver for Star Gemini-10X
I am trying to get my venerable Star Gemini-10X working under LM 8.1 and CUPS but cannot find an appropriate driver. The Gemini-10X is a 9 pin dot matrix printer, so I've tried the dot matrix drivers that are available for Star under CUPS. What I get when I try to print a test page is a single horizontal line followed by line feeds forever. Ditto when I try the Epson dot matrix driver. What else should I be trying? I've already looked at linuxprinting.org and posted this question on linuxprinting.star.general with no luck. TIA, Warren Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CUPS driver for Star Gemini-10X
On Wednesday, 24 July 2002 12:54 pm, Warren Post wrote: I am trying to get my venerable Star Gemini-10X working under LM 8.1 and CUPS but cannot find an appropriate driver. The Gemini-10X is a 9 pin dot matrix printer, so I've tried the dot matrix drivers that are available for Star under CUPS. What I get when I try to print a test page is a single horizontal line followed by line feeds forever. Ditto when I try the Epson dot matrix driver. What else should I be trying? My first printer was a Gemini for Commodore64. Try some of the Citizen drivers. old ones. 200GX or 190. Let me think a bit. Maybe use generic text printer. Basically should print ascii. good luck, Richard. I've already looked at linuxprinting.org and posted this question on linuxprinting.star.general with no luck. TIA, Warren -- http://es.openoffice.org, Servicios GO-TRO,ca, v/f:0265-641-0003 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] CUPS and HP 2100 over JetDirect
I installed CUPS from my Mandrake v8.2 discs. When I try to install my HP 2100 and print a test page the yellow light on the printer comes on, goes off, and nothing prints. I attempted to install directly to the JetDirect by IP address and selected the HP 2100 from the pull-down lists for drivers. Any ideas or resources for installing printers would be greatly appreciated. I would rather print through our Win2k print server but I'll take anything I can get. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] CUPS and HP 2100 over JetDirect
Please post any other info you find on this topic because I hit a similar problem and we have 6 of these printers in production. I can get it to work if I point each individual printer to the IP without cups, but the cups does seem to act a little funny. Cory Grey Coastal Pacific Xpress www.cpx.ca (604) 575-0983 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 5:55 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] CUPS and HP 2100 over JetDirect I installed CUPS from my Mandrake v8.2 discs. When I try to install my HP 2100 and print a test page the yellow light on the printer comes on, goes off, and nothing prints. I attempted to install directly to the JetDirect by IP address and selected the HP 2100 from the pull-down lists for drivers. Any ideas or resources for installing printers would be greatly appreciated. I would rather print through our Win2k print server but I'll take anything I can get. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] CUPS and HP 2100 over JetDirect
I have since been able to make it work better. I have tried both samba and lpd as well. I am not using the lpd and set the printer to http://x.x.x.x/printername and it printed to the Win2k server. I also had to change the print drive to HP LaserJet series or something simpler than the 2100 series. On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 11:33, Cory wrote: Please post any other info you find on this topic because I hit a similar problem and we have 6 of these printers in production. I can get it to work if I point each individual printer to the IP without cups, but the cups does seem to act a little funny. Cory Grey Coastal Pacific Xpress www.cpx.ca (604) 575-0983 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 5:55 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] CUPS and HP 2100 over JetDirect I installed CUPS from my Mandrake v8.2 discs. When I try to install my HP 2100 and print a test page the yellow light on the printer comes on, goes off, and nothing prints. I attempted to install directly to the JetDirect by IP address and selected the HP 2100 from the pull-down lists for drivers. Any ideas or resources for installing printers would be greatly appreciated. I would rather print through our Win2k print server but I'll take anything I can get. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] cups printing problems
Hi all, since installing 8.2 I have been having trouble printing top my canon bj330. Some times things print ok and other times I get some correct print mixed in with garbage (odd characters, wrong line spacing, blank pages.) I initially thought the problem was with printing from winxp using samba, but have the same problems even when printing a text file from linux. The same printer used to work ok on 8.1, in fact I was using a dual parallel card and sharing the bj330 and an epson stylus color printer. any ideas? -- regards, Colin mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cups problem in 8.2
I had the same problem with the same printer. What fixed it for me was doing a Mandrake update and selecting everything that mentioned cups. I believe there was a server update and filters and a couple of other related updates. I have a slow dialup so I kicked it off over night and the next morning I was printing fine. Roly On Thu, 2002-05-02 at 05:26, Brian Parish wrote: Well 8.2 does almost everything better than 8.1, but not with regard to my printer. I have a Canon S450, which worked faultlessly under 8.1, but under 8.2 the test page and anything else I print comes out double width. i.e. I only get the left hand side of my A4 page. It's as if it's try to print A3 landscape and running out of room. Anyone found this, or even better - a way around it? TIA Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- The directions said to install Windows 98/2000 or better! So I installed Linux! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cups problem in 8.2
On Thursday 02 May 2002 08:26 am, you wrote: Well 8.2 does almost everything better than 8.1, but not with regard to my printer. I have a Canon S450, which worked faultlessly under 8.1, but under 8.2 the test page and anything else I print comes out double width. i.e. I only get the left hand side of my A4 page. It's as if it's try to print A3 landscape and running out of room. Anyone found this, or even better - a way around it? TIA Brian Hi Brian, I have the Canon S450 as well. It worked well in LM 8.0, although the output quality using CUPS was interesting -- I switched over to Turboprint. You really have to try turboprint -- the quality is simply outstanding! They have a driver for this model as well. A free d/l is available, and if I was ever to purchase software, turboprint pro would be well worth the $. I haven't used it so far in LM 8.2 (mainly because all my tanks are empty), but it's all set to go. http://www.turboprint.de hth, Andre -- Please pray the Holy Rosary to end the holocaust of abortion. Remember in your prayers the Holy Souls in Purgatory. May God bless you abundantly in His love! For a free Cenacle Scriptural Rosary Booklet: http://www.webhart.net/csrb/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cups problem in 8.2
OK - downloading now - also on a slow dialup. Should have tried that first I guess - not used to the updates actually fixing things ;-) Thanks and regards Brian On Wed, 2002-05-01 at 22:48, Roland Hughes wrote: I had the same problem with the same printer. What fixed it for me was doing a Mandrake update and selecting everything that mentioned cups. I believe there was a server update and filters and a couple of other related updates. I have a slow dialup so I kicked it off over night and the next morning I was printing fine. Roly On Thu, 2002-05-02 at 05:26, Brian Parish wrote: Well 8.2 does almost everything better than 8.1, but not with regard to my printer. I have a Canon S450, which worked faultlessly under 8.1, but under 8.2 the test page and anything else I print comes out double width. i.e. I only get the left hand side of my A4 page. It's as if it's try to print A3 landscape and running out of room. Anyone found this, or even better - a way around it? TIA Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- The directions said to install Windows 98/2000 or better! So I installed Linux! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Cups Only Printing Out Items That Have Color
Cups is only printing out object that have color. Well anything that is not black. How can I make it print things that are black and gray. -- http://ld.net/?nswint Registered Linux User Number 254358 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] cups and windows shared printer - stumped
I've been trying for ages (or what seems like ages) to get CUPS to print to a Windows 2000 shared printer. I am stumped. I tried to use kups to configure the printer (since people reported success with kups), but to no avail. The following lines appear in my /var/log/cups/error_log file when I try to print to my default printer, an HP Laserjet 4L: I [04/Dec/2001:14:00:34 -0500] Job 14 queued on 'hp4l' by 'root'. I [04/Dec/2001:14:00:34 -0500] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstops (PID 3085) for job 14. I [04/Dec/2001:14:00:34 -0500] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstoraster (PID 3086) for job 14. I [04/Dec/2001:14:00:34 -0500] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/rastertoprinter (PID 3087) for job 14. E [04/Dec/2001:14:00:34 -0500] PID 3087 stopped with status 1! I [04/Dec/2001:14:00:34 -0500] Started backend /usr/lib/cups/backend/smb (PID 3088) for job 14. E [04/Dec/2001:14:00:34 -0500] Fatal error: Unable to load PPD file /etc/cups/ppd/hp4l.ppd! The file to which the error messages refer exists and is mode 644. The printer is physically attached to the Windows machine. I have no problem mounting a shared Windows directory on the Linux machine using my Windows network username and password. The command smbclient -L machine-name -U user says the printer is indeed there. I've no clue what to try next. Any pointers? Thanks, Kathy -- For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. - 2 Timothy 1:7 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] cups
U. I am starting to think that cups is pretty crummy. I changed the printer driver to see if this would affect the page margins (since I had no problems with the postscript driver before) The printer is now simply spilling out blank pages, even though the job has since been deleted and the printer has been stopped. Everything on my pc says the printer is inactive, if it weren't for the printer spitting out paper I would believe them. What is the point of having a print manager that does not manage the printer?? Any help appreciated. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] cups
Help, I've installed Mandrake 8.0 and i think it is great but.. i can not print ostcript files. I tried with a HP dj843V and a HP dj610C but cups just wont print the postcripts. The dj610C only prints the first page and the df843C prints evrything on a single page. Philippe
Re: [newbie] cups
Have you tried looking for your printer at http://www.linuxprinting.org/? On Sun, 5 Aug 2001 01:39, Philippe Schottey wrote: Help, I've installed Mandrake 8.0 and i think it is great but.. i can not print ostcript files. I tried with a HP dj843V and a HP dj610C but cups just wont print the postcripts. The dj610C only prints the first page and the df843C prints evrything on a single page. Philippe -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson
Re: [newbie] cups
Open kups or qtcups as root and try configuring your printer. Then try printing a test page. Also, try using xpp to print a postscript page. On Sun, 5 Aug 2001 03:58, Philippe Schottey wrote: Yes, i did but nothing is said about problems with postcripts... i think. On Saturday 04 August 2001 07:29, you wrote: Have you tried looking for your printer at http://www.linuxprinting.org/? On Sun, 5 Aug 2001 01:39, Philippe Schottey wrote: Help, I've installed Mandrake 8.0 and i think it is great but.. i can not print ostcript files. I tried with a HP dj843V and a HP dj610C but cups just wont print the postcripts. The dj610C only prints the first page and the df843C prints evrything on a single page. Philippe -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson
RE: [newbie] Cups problem with FS800
Hi peoples...
In another first for me, (this is my firt week in experiments with smb and
windows networking in linux) I decided to setup smb file and printer sharing
with linux to the windows clients.
First step being to get the printer setup locally, ,its a Kyocera FS800
(which has a cups driver..)
I used Kups to set it up, it said everything was just fine, so I tried a
test page,...
here is the result...
%!PS-Adobe-3.0
[{
%%BeginFeature: PageSize Letter
/PageSize[612
792]/ImagingBBo
Thats all there was, nothing else... that looks like it printed a config
file...
anyone know why I didn't get a test page?
[newbie] CUPS problem
Hi Ken I have just had this problem lots about it on the search thru the mail list and what worked for me was to reboot with the mandrake install disc select upgrade workstation or whatever you used and then make sure you select add printer. i t will probably need the 2nd disk i think. It all worked fine after this. Let us know how you get on Regards Duncan
Re: [newbie]cups printing again
On Wednesday 30 May 2001 23:49, John David Molina wrote: El Jue 24 May 2001 13:16, Marcia Waller escribió: Dear All, I cannot print at all now in my LM8 with my Epson Stylus Color with cups+gimp driver. I did download the new cups, too. It will printout a test page and do the calibration but will not print from any application. If I try to print from an app. I just get tons of papers going through with sometimes some gibberish color and BW print. When it does this, I then go to the terminal to cancel the jobs, but lpstat shows that there are no jobs and I cannot cancel them that way. I can from the website for cups but that is the only place. I don't know if this will work, but... why don't you try the Epson Stylus Color foomatic+stcxxxih.upp driver? I tried another driver for a short while but I am not sure exactly which one it was. It did not work any better. I had to totally give up on the cups for LM8 but I plan to try the cups I had in 7.2 which worked just fine. When I get a chance to do this and if it works I will let you know. I am using Lpd now and it does poorly but at least it prints except it won't print from internet pages. It prints from kmail and from all other apps but not from the internet. That I do not understand. Thanks for your help. Sincerely, Marcia Waller
Re: [newbie]cups printing again
El Jue 24 May 2001 13:16, Marcia Waller escribió: Dear All, I cannot print at all now in my LM8 with my Epson Stylus Color with cups+gimp driver. I did download the new cups, too. It will printout a test page and do the calibration but will not print from any application. If I try to print from an app. I just get tons of papers going through with sometimes some gibberish color and BW print. When it does this, I then go to the terminal to cancel the jobs, but lpstat shows that there are no jobs and I cannot cancel them that way. I can from the website for cups but that is the only place. I don't know if this will work, but... why don't you try the Epson Stylus Color foomatic+stcxxxih.upp driver? -- John David Molina [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie]cups printing Mess(cont.)
On Sunday 27 May 2001 02:42, Alan Shoemaker wrote: Marcia Waller wrote: Alan, how do I get my printing to work now with the lpd? How do I choose, add, and configure printers with it? Is printtools the gui for it? I really do not know the first thing to do to get this started. Any help will be appreciated. Thank you so much for your detailed instructions. It seemed to all get installed. Sincerely, Marcia Marciajust open a console window, 'su -' to become root and execute printtool. The setup is pretty simple and is what you were used to in 7.0 and pervious releases. Dear Alan All, Thank you Alan so much for your help. I have lpd installed and working now. Whew! I had to have some printing working. Now that I have it installed it reminded me why I was so happy to have cups in 7.2. The print is a little too light, wavy, and uneven plus about every 5 lines I get print over print so that it is just a blur. I had this same problem in 7. How can I improve this printing and get rid of the blur? Another question. My cups in 7.2 had worked well and looked good. Would it be possible to install all of the cups files from 7.2 into my LM8? Should that work since the LM8 cups files did not work at all for me? I will not consider this if I can substantially improve the quality of my lpd. Thanks so very much for your help. Sincerely, Marcia -- Marcia Waller
Re: [newbie]cups printing Mess(cont.)
Marcia Waller wrote: Dear Alan All, I remember that my printing was not very good in LM7 but it was better than what I got from cups in LM8. I just do not remember what I did to get it going. I think I used linuxconf which I finally found in LM8. I did find printtool and used it, then I found linuxconf and tried to do a test page from there but nothing happened. It looks like my printer is setup but nothing will print yet. Any suggestions? Thanks for your help. Sincerely, Marcia Marciagood grief! What a time to remember that fact!!! Sorry that my solution didn't help your problem. -- Alan
Re: [newbie]cups printing Mess(cont.)
Marcia Waller wrote: Dear Alan All, Thank you Alan so much for your help. I have lpd installed and working now. Whew! I had to have some printing working. Now that I have it installed it reminded me why I was so happy to have cups in 7.2. The print is a little too light, wavy, and uneven plus about every 5 lines I get print over print so that it is just a blur. I had this same problem in 7. How can I improve this printing and get rid of the blur? Another question. My cups in 7.2 had worked well and looked good. Would it be possible to install all of the cups files from 7.2 into my LM8? Should that work since the LM8 cups files did not work at all for me? I will not consider this if I can substantially improve the quality of my lpd. Thanks so very much for your help. Sincerely, Marcia Marciasure the 7.2 CUPS should work with 8.0. Basically, reverse the process you just did. Uninstall the 5 files you just installed: rpm -e --nodeps lpr-0.50-10mdk.i586.rpm rpm -e --nodeps rhs-printfilters-1.76-3mdk.i586.rpm rpm -e --nodeps printtool-3.43-2mdk.noarch.rpm (mdk 7.0) rpm -e --nodeps control-panel-3.11-17mdk (mdk 7.2) rpm -e --nodeps mpage-2.5.1-12mdk (7.2) If there are any errors about not being able to delete some associated directories because of there still being data in them then delete them by hand. Then install these files from the 7.2 Installation CD by first copying them to an otherwise empty directory and install them all at once using: rpm -ivh * cups-1.1.4-3mdk.i586.rpm cups-drivers-0.3.6-30mdk.i586.rpm kups-0.8-24mdk.i586.rpm qtcups-1.0-14mdk.i586.rpm Hopefully you'll not run into any dependency errors and this will fix up all your printing problems to your satisfaction. Good luck! -- Alan
Re: [newbie]cups printing Mess(cont.)
On Monday 28 May 2001 14:49, Alan Shoemaker wrote: Marcia Waller wrote: Dear Alan All, Thank you Alan so much for your help. I have lpd installed and working now. Whew! I had to have some printing working. Now that I have it installed it reminded me why I was so happy to have cups in 7.2. The print is a little too light, wavy, and uneven plus about every 5 lines I get print over print so that it is just a blur. I had this same problem in 7. How can I improve this printing and get rid of the blur? Another question. My cups in 7.2 had worked well and looked good. Would it be possible to install all of the cups files from 7.2 into my LM8? Should that work since the LM8 cups files did not work at all for me? I will not consider this if I can substantially improve the quality of my lpd. Thanks so very much for your help. Sincerely, Marcia Marciasure the 7.2 CUPS should work with 8.0. Basically, reverse the process you just did. Uninstall the 5 files you just installed: rpm -e --nodeps lpr-0.50-10mdk.i586.rpm rpm -e --nodeps rhs-printfilters-1.76-3mdk.i586.rpm rpm -e --nodeps printtool-3.43-2mdk.noarch.rpm (mdk 7.0) rpm -e --nodeps control-panel-3.11-17mdk (mdk 7.2) rpm -e --nodeps mpage-2.5.1-12mdk (7.2) If there are any errors about not being able to delete some associated directories because of there still being data in them then delete them by hand. Then install these files from the 7.2 Installation CD by first copying them to an otherwise empty directory and install them all at once using: rpm -ivh * cups-1.1.4-3mdk.i586.rpm cups-drivers-0.3.6-30mdk.i586.rpm kups-0.8-24mdk.i586.rpm qtcups-1.0-14mdk.i586.rpm Hopefully you'll not run into any dependency errors and this will fix up all your printing problems to your satisfaction. Good luck! Dear Alan, Thank you for these great instructions. I will give this a try. If I finally get good printing again I will let you all know. Thanks. Marcia -- Marcia Waller
Re: [newbie]cups printing Mess(cont.)
Marcia Waller wrote: Alan, how do I get my printing to work now with the lpd? How do I choose, add, and configure printers with it? Is printtools the gui for it? I really do not know the first thing to do to get this started. Any help will be appreciated. Thank you so much for your detailed instructions. It seemed to all get installed. Sincerely, Marcia Marciajust open a console window, 'su -' to become root and execute printtool. The setup is pretty simple and is what you were used to in 7.0 and pervious releases. -- Alan
Re: [newbie]cups printing Mess(cont.)
On Sunday 27 May 2001 02:42, Alan Shoemaker wrote: Marcia Waller wrote: Alan, how do I get my printing to work now with the lpd? How do I choose, add, and configure printers with it? Is printtools the gui for it? I really do not know the first thing to do to get this started. Any help will be appreciated. Thank you so much for your detailed instructions. It seemed to all get installed. Sincerely, Marcia Marciajust open a console window, 'su -' to become root and execute printtool. The setup is pretty simple and is what you were used to in 7.0 and pervious releases. Dear Alan All, I remember that my printing was not very good in LM7 but it was better than what I got from cups in LM8. I just do not remember what I did to get it going. I think I used linuxconf which I finally found in LM8. I did find printtool and used it, then I found linuxconf and tried to do a test page from there but nothing happened. It looks like my printer is setup but nothing will print yet. Any suggestions? Thanks for your help. Sincerely, Marcia -- Marcia Waller
Re: [newbie]cups printing Mess
On Friday 25 May 2001 23:44, you wrote: Dear All, I have not been able to install the new cups 1.1.8. Has anyone successfully installed this in LM8? I am the one who has been asking for cups printing help for my Epson Stylus Color printer on LM8 for days now. I installed all of my cups rpm's from my LM8 again. Nothing is working I got everything configured and whenever I try to print it just pours out an endless stream of paper with gibberish. When I go to the terminal and do cancel or lprm it says that I cannot cancel lp. When I check into lpstat it shows nothing. Does anyone have any ideas? How can I cancel these jobs once this gets started? May I use a whole different printing system other than cups and how would I do that? How do I install the lpr system so that I that I do not need cups. I would appreciate any help. As of now I cannot print anything from Linux. My printing worked well in Lm 7 and Lm7.2.Thanks. Sincerely, Marcia Marcia, Don't know if this will help or if it has been suggested before. Have you tried setting up your printer through kups (note the k - it's on the first CD if you didn't install it) this gives you the options for selecting your printer queue, make model, ghostscript etc. I see that there are a number of Epson stylus printers listed there but I don't remember which model your's is. -- Poogle
Re: [newbie]cups printing again
On Thursday 24 May 2001 18:46, Francisco Alcaraz Ariza wrote: Some packages are costumed to use lpr as the command to print; but cups have changed this. Now the command for acroread, kwriter, etc. must be xpp. Try it, in my case all those packages are now printing fine, I have configured my two printers: A) Epson Stylus Color 760 attached to one of the USB ports B) HP LaserJet 4L attached to the parallel port I have also the Epson in cups as two differents printers, lp1 as medium resolution (360 ppi) and lp3 as low resolution (180 ppi). When I try to print from, for example, acroread, using xpp as the print command, I can select one of the 3 printers/configurations. Using kups you can also improve the printers results, I mean leaf margins, graphical and text resolution and so on. Francisco Alcaraz Mucia(Spain) El Jue 24 May 2001 12:16, escribiste: Dear All, I cannot print at all now in my LM8 with my Epson Stylus Color with cups+gimp driver. I did download the new cups, too. It will printout a test page and do the calibration but will not print from any application. If I try to print from an app. I just get tons of papers going through with sometimes some gibberish color and BW print. When it does this, I then go to the terminal to cancel the jobs, but lpstat shows that there are no jobs and I cannot cancel them that way. I can from the website for cups but that is the only place. Are there some files that I can check on to find out what is going on or to get this to work? Again my printing worked fine in 7, 7.2, and works fine with my WIn98 on my laptop. I know that it is not the printer itself. When I first installed 8 the printer worked but the printing quality was terrible and even with changing resolution, etc, nothing improved. After trying many suggestions here plus reading on solutions, I just ended up messing it all up more. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks so very much. Sincerely, Marcia And you can also setup the printer queue in cups like say Printer679 as a queue name and make the command lpr -P Printer679 And that will work with cups, but it lacks the power of choice you have with xpp. For some with a single printer, though, it is simpler. LyX is the one that will not run that way. You either have to get the cups mini-daemon to run (cups-lpd) or print to a postscript file and then use xpp to print the postscript file. Civileme
Re: [newbie]cups printing Mess(cont.)
Dear All, I thank all of you for giving me the suggestions for my printer. I have done most of them and none have improved my situtation. I installed all of my cups rpm's from my LM8 again. Nothing is working I got everything configured and whenever I try to print it just pours out an endless stream of paper with gibberish. When I go to the terminal and do cancel or lprm it says that I cannot cancel lp. When I check into lpstat it shows nothing. Does anyone have any ideas? How can I cancel these jobs once this gets started? This problem is the same even though I started over and even got the new cups 1.1.8 installed. With this new cups which I had to use force to install left out my cups webadmin choice from my printing selections. Again nothing has changed. It does not print anything or just gibberish and sends many papers through my printer that will not stop even when I try canceling through the terminal. Again lpstat shows nothing even when I have a pending job. This printer worked when I first installed even though the printing quality was terrible. Once I started changing configurations for resolution, etc., then the problems started and still have not stopped. Are there any files I can check? I do not know what else to do. I thought of installing LM8 again in expert mode so that I do not lose my other files. Does anyone have any other suggestions again? Thanks. Marcia -- Marcia Waller
Re: [newbie]cups printingMess(cont)
Dear All, I checked my services that should be running in the Mandrake Control Center and there was no cups listed at all. It was before but since I reinstalled the cups it is not there. There is nothing for a printer there. Is not Cups and lpd supposed to be listed? Why would it not be? Also, why will lpstat show nothing. And why can I not cancel my jobs through the terminal with lprm or cancel? Thanks. Marcia
Re: [newbie]cups printing Mess(cont.)
Marcia Waller wrote: Dear All, I thank all of you for giving me the suggestions for my printer. I have done most of them and none have improved my situtation. [snip] This problem is the same even though I started over and even got the new cups 1.1.8 installed. With this new cups which I had to use force to install left out my cups webadmin choice from my printing selections. Again nothing has changed. It does not print anything or just gibberish and sends many papers through my printer that will not stop even when I try canceling through the terminal. Again lpstat shows nothing even when I have a pending job. This printer worked when I first installed even though the printing quality was terrible. Once I started changing configurations for resolution, etc., then the problems started and still have not stopped. Are there any files I can check? I do not know what else to do. I thought of installing LM8 again in expert mode so that I do not lose my other files. Does anyone have any other suggestions again? Thanks. Marcia Marciayou might try removing CUPS completely and going back to lpd. I just did this, as an experiment, in reaction to your comtinuing CUPS problems. Here's how I did it: remove the following (since you installed a 1.8 version you'll have to allow for the version differences) rpm -e --nodeps cups-1.1.6-21mdk rpm -e --nodeps cups-common-1.1.6-21mdk rpm -e --nodeps cups-drivers-1.0-30mdk rpm -e --nodeps kups-1.1-6mdk rpm -e --nodeps qtcups-2.1-11mdk then delete these directories /var/spool/cups /var/log/cups /usr/share/cups /usr/lib/cups /etc/cups then put the following rpm files in an otherwise empty directory and install them all at once using: rpm -ivh * lpr-0.50-10mdk.i586.rpm rhs-printfilters-1.76-3mdk.i586.rpm printtool-3.43-2mdk.noarch.rpm (mdk 7.0) control-panel-3.11-17mdk (mdk 7.2) mpage-2.5.1-12mdk (7.2) if, like I did, you get a dependency error for printtool needing rhs-printfilters-with-ppa then add a nodeps to the command line like this: rpm -ivh --nodeps * If you decide to try this, good luck. lpd is working just fine on my mdk 8.0 system. -- Alan
Re: [newbie]cups printing Mess(cont.)
Marciayou might try removing CUPS completely and going back to lpd. I just did this, as an experiment, in reaction to your comtinuing CUPS problems. Here's how I did it: remove the following (since you installed a 1.8 version you'll have to allow for the version differences) rpm -e --nodeps cups-1.1.6-21mdk rpm -e --nodeps cups-common-1.1.6-21mdk rpm -e --nodeps cups-drivers-1.0-30mdk rpm -e --nodeps kups-1.1-6mdk rpm -e --nodeps qtcups-2.1-11mdk then delete these directories /var/spool/cups /var/log/cups /usr/share/cups /usr/lib/cups /etc/cups then put the following rpm files in an otherwise empty directory and install them all at once using: rpm -ivh * lpr-0.50-10mdk.i586.rpm rhs-printfilters-1.76-3mdk.i586.rpm printtool-3.43-2mdk.noarch.rpm (mdk 7.0) control-panel-3.11-17mdk (mdk 7.2) mpage-2.5.1-12mdk (7.2) if, like I did, you get a dependency error for printtool needing rhs-printfilters-with-ppa then add a nodeps to the command line like this: rpm -ivh --nodeps * If you decide to try this, good luck. lpd is working just fine on my mdk 8.0 system. Dear All, Thank you for your advice on the cups printing however I just could not get it to work so I deleted all of the cups and installed as Alan suggested the lpd. Alan, how do I get my printing to work now with the lpd? How do I choose, add, and configure printers with it? Is printtools the gui for it? I really do not know the first thing to do to get this started. Any help will be appreciated. Thank you so much for your detailed instructions. It seemed to all get installed. Sincerely, Marcia -- Marcia Waller
Re: [newbie]cups printing(a mess)
On Thursday 24 May 2001 12:16, Marcia Waller wrote: Dear All, I cannot print at all now in my LM8 with my Epson Stylus Color with cups+gimp driver. I did download the new cups, too. It will printout a test page and do the calibration but will not print from any application. If I try to print from an app. I just get tons of papers going through with sometimes some gibberish color and BW print. When it does this, I then go to the terminal to cancel the jobs, but lpstat shows that there are no jobs and I cannot cancel them that way. I can from the website for cups but that is the only place. Are there some files that I can check on to find out what is going on or to get this to work? Again my printing worked fine in 7, 7.2, and works fine with my WIn98 on my laptop. I know that it is not the printer itself. When I first installed 8 the printer worked but the printing quality was terrible and even with changing resolution, etc, nothing improved. After trying many suggestions here plus reading on solutions, I just ended up messing it all up more. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks so very much. Sincerely, Marcia I thought I resolved my printer problem last night except for the quality. When I went to the web cups admin and changed the resolution, the problems only became worse. When I tried a test page it just would pour out paper after paper with some print gibberish occasionally. I tried to cancel the jobs from both the command line and from the web and neither have worked. The jobs will not cancel. I have deleted all of my printers from the web and it still does this kind of eternal printing. How do I cancel the jobs now? Also, I want to get my printer working correctly. I have tried everything that I can think of so far including all of your suggestions. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Marcia -- Marcia Waller
Re: [newbie]cups printing(a mess)
On Friday 25 May 2001 11:45 am, you wrote: On Thursday 24 May 2001 12:16, Marcia Waller wrote: Dear All, I cannot print at all now in my LM8 with my Epson Stylus Color with cups+gimp driver. I did download the new cups, too. It will printout a test page and do the calibration but will not print from any application. If I try to print from an app. I just get tons of papers going through with sometimes some gibberish color and BW print. When it does this, I then go to the terminal to cancel the jobs, but lpstat shows that there are no jobs and I cannot cancel them that way. I can from the website for cups but that is the only place. Are there some files that I can check on to find out what is going on or to get this to work? Again my printing worked fine in 7, 7.2, and works fine with my WIn98 on my laptop. I know that it is not the printer itself. When I first installed 8 the printer worked but the printing quality was terrible and even with changing resolution, etc, nothing improved. After trying many suggestions here plus reading on solutions, I just ended up messing it all up more. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks so very much. Sincerely, Marcia I thought I resolved my printer problem last night except for the quality. When I went to the web cups admin and changed the resolution, the problems only became worse. When I tried a test page it just would pour out paper after paper with some print gibberish occasionally. I tried to cancel the jobs from both the command line and from the web and neither have worked. The jobs will not cancel. I have deleted all of my printers from the web and it still does this kind of eternal printing. How do I cancel the jobs now? Also, I want to get my printer working correctly. I have tried everything that I can think of so far including all of your suggestions. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Marcia This ain't the correct way, I have done a turn off printer, locate spool, then rm /var/spool/cups/* and rm /var/spool/cups/tmp/* and rebooted. That sucks, but I was starting to get low on the $100/ounce ink! :-) Sorry you're having so much trouble, you been working on this for quite some time and I wish I could help. I wish Civilme could jump in here with some epson printer advise. Mine ain't doing much better. If you can find one of the drivers that will print anything near correctly and then up the dpi maybe that'll work. That's what I did. I have a 777 and found the 680 almost works. -s
Re: [newbie]cups printing(a mess)again
On Friday 25 May 2001 12:45, Marcia Waller wrote: On Thursday 24 May 2001 12:16, Marcia Waller wrote: Dear All, I cannot print at all now in my LM8 with my Epson Stylus Color with cups+gimp driver. I did download the new cups, too. It will printout a test page and do the calibration but will not print from any application. If I try to print from an app. I just get tons of papers going through with sometimes some gibberish color and BW print. When it does this, I then go to the terminal to cancel the jobs, but lpstat shows that there are no jobs and I cannot cancel them that way. I can from the website for cups but that is the only place. Are there some files that I can check on to find out what is going on or to get this to work? Again my printing worked fine in 7, 7.2, and works fine with my WIn98 on my laptop. I know that it is not the printer itself. When I first installed 8 the printer worked but the printing quality was terrible and even with changing resolution, etc, nothing improved. After trying many suggestions here plus reading on solutions, I just ended up messing it all up more. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks so very much. Sincerely, Marcia I thought I resolved my printer problem last night except for the quality. When I went to the web cups admin and changed the resolution, the problems only became worse. When I tried a test page it just would pour out paper after paper with some print gibberish occasionally. I tried to cancel the jobs from both the command line and from the web and neither have worked. The jobs will not cancel. I have deleted all of my printers from the web and it still does this kind of eternal printing. How do I cancel the jobs now? Also, I want to get my printer working correctly. I have tried everything that I can think of so far including all of your suggestions. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Marcia Dear All, I just found out there is a new version of cups. It is cups 1.1.8. I downloaded the rpm and tried to install. It was conflicting with the 1.1.7 cups so I went about uninstalling that version with all of its dependancies. The problem is it seems there are a never ending amount of dependancies in order for me to delete the old and install the new. Is there a better way to do this? Thanks for your help. Sincerely, Marcia Waller
[newbie]cups printing Mess
Dear All, I have not been able to install the new cups 1.1.8. Has anyone successfully installed this in LM8? I am the one who has been asking for cups printing help for my Epson Stylus Color printer on LM8 for days now. I installed all of my cups rpm's from my LM8 again. Nothing is working I got everything configured and whenever I try to print it just pours out an endless stream of paper with gibberish. When I go to the terminal and do cancel or lprm it says that I cannot cancel lp. When I check into lpstat it shows nothing. Does anyone have any ideas? How can I cancel these jobs once this gets started? May I use a whole different printing system other than cups and how would I do that? How do I install the lpr system so that I that I do not need cups. I would appreciate any help. As of now I cannot print anything from Linux. My printing worked well in Lm 7 and Lm7.2.Thanks. Sincerely, Marcia
Re: [newbie]cups printing(a mess)again
Dear All, I just found out there is a new version of cups. It is cups 1.1.8. I downloaded the rpm and tried to install. It was conflicting with the 1.1.7 cups so I went about uninstalling that version with all of its dependancies. The problem is it seems there are a never ending amount of dependancies in order for me to delete the old and install the new. Is there a better way to do this? Thanks for your help. Sincerely, Marcia Waller Marcia, For upgrades of software packages, do an rpm -Uvh whatever.i586.rpm, which will upgrade the cups install instead of trying to replace it. Michael -- Michael Viron Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida
