On Sunday 15 December 2002 08:18 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 11:46, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > > For some reason, Mandrake 9.0 didn't find my printer, either during the > > installation phase or later using MCC. This is strange, because this > > printer has worked with every version from 7.0 to 8.2 (and it still works > > in Windows). It's a Brother HL1040 on the parallel port with an ECP/EPP > > cable. Motherboard is an Abit KT7, using a VIA chipset. > > -- cmg > > Because MDK 9 uses CUPS/ESP for printing, did you download the latest > printer driver/definitions from them yet? You might want to give that a > shot and THEN try setting up yer printer...
Stephen: Problem solved -- it was a case of RTFM, where "M" stands for mail. Dennis Myers suggested earlier today in another thread (very helpfully titled "Printer Question") that running printerdrake as su from a terminal would sort things out and, sure enough, it did. I'm still mystified as to why the printer configuration routine didn't come up during the install. Oh well, all's well that ends well. Thanks for your help. -- cmg
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