Well, I'm well aware of the fact my problem is boring for all those who are
familiar with Linux: I can't get my printer to work. Sorry.
I've read something about the printing thing... unfortunately there isn't much
(2 HOWTO's, a small chapter in SuSE manual... and no reference at all in LDP).
As far I've understood that lp is my default printer (HP Deskjet 690C), that
lpr is the program/interface that takes care of the printing job and lpd deals
with the filters.
1. my printer port is lp1 and is (almost) working: cat test.txt > /dev/lp1
prints something, but only on one line. Can I fix this?
2. a command like lpr test.txt gives me nothing at all (not even an error
message). The /etc/printcap was configured by YaST and I just added a lp | in
front of a line to have the default printer set.
3. even though I have the package aps installed, my /etc/rc.config does not
contain anything like START_LPD=yes (or no). It simply does not exist. When I
try to start the lpd manually in /sbin/init.d/lpd with the command ./lpd start
i get a message: starting lpd ----- failed.
Any help? Please!
Dan
PS. If you can give me a location on the net where I could learn more about the
printing process (again, the resources on this subject seem to be scarce) it
would be great.
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