[RULE] Re: Printing Support w/ Slinky 0.3.95

Michael Fratoni mfratoni at tuxfan.homeip.net
Thu Jun 26 08:21:44 EEST 2003


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On Wednesday 25 June 2003 03:33 pm, Ingo Lantschner wrote:

> > Did the page print? How is this printer connected (usb, parallell
> > port)?
>
> No it did not print - neither the A4-postscript nor the ASCII-page. The
> printer is connected via the parallel interface (centronics).
>
> > Char-major-188 is for USB serial converters.
>
> strange, possibly this errormessage has nothing to do with the problem.
> Is there somewhere an other more printer-specific logfile where I can
> look?

Most likely something trying to probe for a printer on a usb connection.
 You can have a look at:
/var/log/cups/*
/var/spool/lpd/*/*

> Also I can not print out of Abiword (and possibly other X-Apps) since I
> can not select the created printer. Is this by design? Would an
> extra-step be necessary to see a "redhat-config-printer"-created
> printer in X-Progs?

If you were not able to print the test page, you won't be able to print 
from anything else either.

I'll have to look into this more, and try a clean install without 
networking. It appears the drive on my test machine has quit, so this 
won't happen for a few days.

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