Re: repost - printing - help please

2002-11-13 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 04:25:06PM +, Avtar Marwaha wrote: > On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 06:22, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > > > > foomatic-compiledb -t ppd pnm2ppa > > > > did that too > > what was the output when you ran this command? got it - you have to execute that command sitting in /etc > >

Re: repost - printing - help please

2002-11-13 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 11:12:01AM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > works okay when i am root. > > when i am a user, it prints, bash: /dev/lp0 access denied! > > do i change permissions on /dev/lp0 or add the user to some group? Which group owns /dev/lp0? rob@leserver:~$ ls -Ll /dev/lp0 crw-rw

Re: repost - printing - help please

2002-11-13 Thread Avtar Marwaha
On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 06:22, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > > You will need the cupsys-server, cupsys-client, foomatic-db, pnm2ppa packages and >all of > > > the necessary dependencies. > > did that. > > > Download foomatic-db and foomatic-bin and their deps. > > did this as well > > > Then as ro

Re: repost - printing - help please

2002-11-12 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 06:51:15PM +, Avtar Marwaha wrote: > On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 14:48, Avtar Marwaha wrote: > > On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 04:44, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > > You will need the cupsys-server, cupsys-client, foomatic-db, pnm2ppa packages and >all of > > the necessary dependencies

Re: repost - printing - help please

2002-11-12 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 01:47:10AM -0500, Travis Crump wrote: > Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > >On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 01:08:17AM -0500, Scott Henson wrote: > > > >>On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 00:54, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > >> > >>>On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 12:28:38AM -0500, Scott Henson wrote: > >>> > >>>

Re: repost - printing - help please

2002-11-12 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 06:02:09PM +, Rupert wrote: > On 12 Nov 2002 07:27:27 +0100 Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 01:08:17AM -0500, Scott Henson wrote: > > > On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 00:54, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > > > > what to do now? > > > > > > > try to print somethi

Re: repost - printing - help please

2002-11-12 Thread Avtar Marwaha
On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 14:48, Avtar Marwaha wrote: > On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 04:44, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: You will need the cupsys-server, cupsys-client, foomatic-db, pnm2ppa packages and all of > the necessary dependencies. Sorry, I made some mistakes. There are two ways of doing this. You

Re: repost - printing - help please

2002-11-12 Thread Rupert
On 12 Nov 2002 07:27:27 +0100 Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 01:08:17AM -0500, Scott Henson wrote: > > On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 00:54, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > > > what to do now? > > > > > try to print something? > > echo "test" | lpr > > does nothing! You may possibly need

Re: repost - printing - help please

2002-11-12 Thread Avtar Marwaha
On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 04:44, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > hello all! > > my umpteen number of attempts to set my printer have been unsuccessful. > > here is the set-up: > > computer is running on woody 3.0 > > hp deskjet 710c printer is connected to it on lpt1 (i am using windows nomenclature) >

Re: repost - printing - help please

2002-11-12 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 04:44, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > hello all! > > my umpteen number of attempts to set my printer have been unsuccessful. > > here is the set-up: > > computer is running on woody 3.0 > > hp deskjet 710c printer is connected to it on lpt1 (i am using windows nomenclature) >

Re: repost - printing - help please

2002-11-11 Thread Scott Henson
On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 01:28, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > > try to print something? > > echo "test" | lpr > > does nothing! Ummm... Should Work (TM). > > > > failing that did you configure magicfilter? or your printcap file? I > > used /sbin/magicfilterconfig and my printer worked like magic(o

Re: repost - printing - help please

2002-11-11 Thread Travis Crump
Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 01:08:17AM -0500, Scott Henson wrote: On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 00:54, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 12:28:38AM -0500, Scott Henson wrote: On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 23:44, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: hp deskjet 710c printer is connec

Re: repost - printing - help please

2002-11-11 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 01:08:17AM -0500, Scott Henson wrote: > On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 00:54, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 12:28:38AM -0500, Scott Henson wrote: > > > On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 23:44, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > > > > hp deskjet 710c printer is connected to it on l

Re: repost - printing - help please

2002-11-11 Thread Scott Henson
On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 00:54, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 12:28:38AM -0500, Scott Henson wrote: > > On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 23:44, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > > > hp deskjet 710c printer is connected to it on lpt1 (i am using windows >nomenclature) > > Just a general guess, but:

Re: repost - printing - help please

2002-11-11 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 12:28:38AM -0500, Scott Henson wrote: > On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 23:44, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > > hp deskjet 710c printer is connected to it on lpt1 (i am using windows >nomenclature) > Just a general guess, but: > apt-get install magicfilter pnm2ppa did that. now, althoug

Re: repost - printing - help please

2002-11-11 Thread Scott Henson
On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 23:44, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > hp deskjet 710c printer is connected to it on lpt1 (i am using windows nomenclature) Just a general guess, but: apt-get install magicfilter pnm2ppa -Scott Henson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

repost - printing - help please

2002-11-11 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
hello all! my umpteen number of attempts to set my printer have been unsuccessful. here is the set-up: computer is running on woody 3.0 hp deskjet 710c printer is connected to it on lpt1 (i am using windows nomenclature) i tried reading linuxprinting.org - could not unsderstand much here is w