On Thu, Mar 11, 1999 at 06:00:55PM -0600, Paul Sack wrote: > I'm getting some weird printer problems. Before everything worked okay. > I think the problem may have been that I tried to install my parallel > port zip drive. But the ppa module that interfaces with the drive is not > loaded. Anyways, nothing works. lpq reports that the printer is offline, > but it's not. In windows, my parallel port is lpt1, so I was using lp1 > (I think) because I read that sometimes lpt1 in windows doesn't > necessarily translate to lp0 and lp1 worked. Now I have tried both lp0 > and lp1 to no avail. I know lpd is loaded. I have restarted lpd several > times. Again, nothing works. Please help. (This is REALLY important.) > Thanks. Do you get these messages on boot up? lp0: using parport0 (polling). lp1: using parport1 (polling). and is lp listed in "cat /proc/devices"? Are there any messages in /var/log/lp*? Do your devices look like this: crw-rw---- 1 root lp 6, 0 Jul 20 1998 /dev/lp0 crw-rw---- 1 root lp 6, 1 Jul 20 1998 /dev/lp1 crw-rw---- 1 root lp 6, 2 Jul 20 1998 /dev/lp2 crw-rw---- 1 root lp 6, 3 Jul 20 1998 /dev/lp3 and are you starting lpd as root? If you compiled your own kernel, there are several options that should be set in your /usr/src/linux/.config file. Here are the relevant entries in mine: # # General setup # CONFIG_PARPORT=y CONFIG_PARPORT_PC=y # CONFIG_PARPORT_OTHER is not set # # Character devices # CONFIG_PRINTER=y CONFIG_PRINTER_READBACK=y # # Block devices # # CONFIG_PARIDE is not set I don't think the CONFIG_PRINTER_READBACK one important, but I listed it just in case. This setup works for me with an HP 4P and an HP Color DeskJet printer on ports lp0 and lp1, respectively. hope this helps, - rick -- Richard Kilgore | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Electrical & Computer Engineering | http://lore.ece.utexas.edu/~rkilgore/ The University of Texas at Austin | (512) 471-8011 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Send administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
