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Re: Printing problem



This may or may not be relevant, but I recently had a lot of similar
problems with lpr in woody.  I replaced it with lprng and my printing
problems disappeared.

On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 06:38:46PM -0600, Debian User Don Cavaiani wrote:
> Yes, Matt, I found that out and made the change. Actually, I deleted
> /etc/printcap and rebuilt it via magicfilter and it looks ok now but still
> doesn't work.
> 
> Matthew Dalton wrote:
> 
> > Debian User Don Cavaiani wrote:
> > >
> > > I have just upgraded to potato.
> > >
> > > My hpdj500c woreked OK B/4 on slink.  but now I get the  message "
> > > Waiting for lp to become ready".
> > >
> > > I don't see anything in dmesg about the printer daemon being started.
> > > Did I not configure this properly?
> >
> > If you changed kernel versions from 2.0 to 2.2 in the upgrade, you
> > probably have to change /dev/lp1 to /dev/lp0 in your printer config
> > files.
> 
> 
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