[gentoo-user] Re: new system, printing suddenly fails for all printers

2009-07-03 Thread walt
On 07/02/2009 05:46 PM, Alan E. Davis wrote: I've been wrangling with a new gentoo install, on an AMD X2 64 bit machine. It's been a problematic experience, but when the system works right, it works really right. Printing has suddenly failed. I had installed foo2zjs in support of an HP P1005 p

[gentoo-user] Re: new system, printing suddenly fails for all printers

2009-07-03 Thread walt
On 07/03/2009 08:48 AM, Alan E. Davis wrote: There is no PCM channel in alsamixer! Maybe I will try alsamixergui, where I saw switches once. Do you have something like this in /dev/snd?: $ls -l /dev/snd total 0 crw-rw 1 root audio 116, 0 2009-07-03 04:42 controlC0 crw-rw 1 root audi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new system, printing suddenly fails for all printers

2009-07-03 Thread Alan E. Davis
Thank you Walt: On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 12:02 AM, walt wrote: > > I've had both problems several times in the past, always caused by dumb > things that, of course, should never happen but often do anyway. > Me too. Maybe so this time as well, at least I hope so. > > First the sound. I still

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new system, printing suddenly fails for all printers

2009-07-03 Thread Alan E. Davis
Well, like Walt said, printing configuration has often been a problem. When I checked, after rebooting after an upgrade to ~amd64, the printers were both setup as network printers. They are not. As soon as I changed the widget to indicate the printer was local, it started priinting! Dumb things

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new system, printing suddenly fails for all printers

2009-07-03 Thread eamjr56
new system, printing suddenly fails for all printers Thank you Walt: On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 12:02 AM, walt wrote: > > I've had both problems several times in the past, always caused by dumb > things that, of course, should never happen but often do anyway. > Me too. May

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new system, printing suddenly fails for all printers

2009-07-03 Thread Alan E. Davis
On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 6:20 AM, wrote: > Why all the handwringing? Just use hplip when using a HP printer and all > the hair-pulling will disappear in seconds. > > Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry > eamjr56: I also am amazed at the support from HP. Recalling the days some 12 years ago,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new system, printing suddenly fails for all printers

2009-07-06 Thread Roland Puntaier
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