Re: [newbie] More printing problems (solved)
I have changed my motherboard, and CUPS now runs (on the old one, the CUPS server would not run ;-( So I can now print; thanks to all who sent help. The flip side of it all is that now its my Ethernet card that wont work. Cheers, Ron the Frog, on the balmy banks of the Paraguay River. -- Solitude: A good place to visit, but a poor place to stay. -- Josh Billings --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
[newbie] More printing problems.
HEEEPPP!! I am trying in vain to print from SO5.2, and feel I am slowly going mad. I have installe the printer when I installed Mandrake 7.2; the test-page prints, and I print wothout problem from KWord or KSpread. The printer as installed is listed in /etc/cups/printers.conf If I open http://localhost:631/ and go to the Manage Printer page, it tells me there are no printers installed. If I install one, it is listed in /etc/cups/printers.conf, but at the end of the configuration I still have no printer installed as far as the Manage Printers page is concerned. If I open Kups from the console, the status bar of Kups keeps telling me Cannot connect to CUPS server; check your options. If I add one, it is listed in /etc/cups/printers.conf, but at the end of the configuration I still have no printer installed as far as Kups is concerned.In the course of the installation, Kups repeatedly tells me I have no printer connected to // port #1 qtcups does not see any of the printers listed in /etc/cups/printers.conf xpp gives me short shrift, with the terse warning "No printer found, aborting" Only the Printer Configuration in DraxConf "sees" the installed printers, all the other config progs fail to see them. I have checked in the DraxConf startup services, and both cups and lpr are checked. Any ideas ? TIA, Desperate, on the shores of the Paraguay River. -- Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. -- Oscar Wilde --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
Re: [newbie] More printing problems.
Renaud, Only the Printer Configuration in DraxConf "sees" the installed printers, all the other config progs fail to see them. You'd said that you'd set a printer up, did you do so in DrakConf, or is that what you mean by DraxConf? I'd had trouble with this after the last (not the current cups update, as I've not installed it) cups update. I'd had to remove reinstall cups from the cd, then, after various attemtps, got it. Also, which version of cups is this where did you get it? Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
Re: [newbie] More printing problems.
Renaud OLGIATI wrote: HEEEPPP!! I am trying in vain to print from SO5.2, and feel I am slowly going mad. I have installe the printer when I installed Mandrake 7.2; the test-page prints, and I print wothout problem from KWord or KSpread. The printer as installed is listed in /etc/cups/printers.conf If I open http://localhost:631/ and go to the Manage Printer page, it tells me there are no printers installed. If I install one, it is listed in /etc/cups/printers.conf, but at the end of the configuration I still have no printer installed as far as the Manage Printers page is concerned. If I open Kups from the console, the status bar of Kups keeps telling me Cannot connect to CUPS server; check your options. If I add one, it is listed in /etc/cups/printers.conf, but at the end of the configuration I still have no printer installed as far as Kups is concerned.In the course of the installation, Kups repeatedly tells me I have no printer connected to // port #1 qtcups does not see any of the printers listed in /etc/cups/printers.conf xpp gives me short shrift, with the terse warning "No printer found, aborting" Only the Printer Configuration in DraxConf "sees" the installed printers, all the other config progs fail to see them. I have checked in the DraxConf startup services, and both cups and lpr are checked. Any ideas ? TIA, Desperate, on the shores of the Paraguay River. Renaudafter installing SO as root there should've been a menu selection in K-menu (under office) called 'staroffice setup' that you used to install SO as a user. Along with that menu selection there should also be 2 more, 'staroffice' (to execute staroffice) and 'staroffice printer setup' (to setup printers for staroffice). You need to use the 'staroffice printer setup' menu selection to setup a default printer for star office. -- Alan
Re: [newbie] More printing problems.
Alan; Check the post I've just sent to the group. It may help. Alan Shoemaker wrote: Renaud OLGIATI wrote: HEEEPPP!! I am trying in vain to print from SO5.2, and feel I am slowly going mad. I have installe the printer when I installed Mandrake 7.2; the test-page prints, and I print wothout problem from KWord or KSpread. The printer as installed is listed in /etc/cups/printers.conf If I open http://localhost:631/ and go to the Manage Printer page, it tells me there are no printers installed. If I install one, it is listed in /etc/cups/printers.conf, but at the end of the configuration I still have no printer installed as far as the Manage Printers page is concerned. If I open Kups from the console, the status bar of Kups keeps telling me Cannot connect to CUPS server; check your options. If I add one, it is listed in /etc/cups/printers.conf, but at the end of the configuration I still have no printer installed as far as Kups is concerned.In the course of the installation, Kups repeatedly tells me I have no printer connected to // port #1 qtcups does not see any of the printers listed in /etc/cups/printers.conf xpp gives me short shrift, with the terse warning "No printer found, aborting" Only the Printer Configuration in DraxConf "sees" the installed printers, all the other config progs fail to see them. I have checked in the DraxConf startup services, and both cups and lpr are checked. Any ideas ? TIA, Desperate, on the shores of the Paraguay River. Renaudafter installing SO as root there should've been a menu selection in K-menu (under office) called 'staroffice setup' that you used to install SO as a user. Along with that menu selection there should also be 2 more, 'staroffice' (to execute staroffice) and 'staroffice printer setup' (to setup printers for staroffice). You need to use the 'staroffice printer setup' menu selection to setup a default printer for star office. -- Alan -- Dan LaBine Maximum L.A.N.'s Ltd Registered Linux User #190712
