On October 6, 2004 07:51 am, Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote: > At first, when I try to add a printer, the program which does this > wont start, telling me the CUPS server doesnt respond. Using the > "apt-get install cupssys" - command, I get the printer managment > window to open, but the program "add printer" wont work. I get the > error message that the application "gnome-cupps-add" ended itseslf, > before it even started. > > How can I fix this problem? > I have a debian testing, downloaded september 2004. > > >From Vegard, Norway Look in your boot messages (dmesg) and if you see this: lp: driver loaded but no devices found Then use "modprobe parport_pc" as root without the quotes to load the parallel port driver. Then you may want to try http://localhost:631 in a browser and use the cups interface itself to add the printer. Use root as the username and your root password as the password when asked for them when the dialog pops up after you select the add printer option on the printers page. You may also want to use something like this to make sure that cups is loaded and running. $ps ax | grep cups 458 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/cupsd 16573 pts/3 S+ 0:00 grep cups Oh after having loaded the module above you should have used "/etc/init.d/cupsys restart" again as root without the quotes to restart it with the module loaded so it will find the parallel port. All this of course assumes that you are using a parallel port for the printer and are running into the same foolishness that I did this weekend when trying to use my printer for the first time in a while. One more thing I usually go to http://www.linuxprinting.org and get the PPD file for my printer from them and then follow the instructions for setting up the driver for CUPS that is linked on the page for the printer then use the localhost page mentioned above to set it up. Stephen -- Debian the choice of a GNU generation. GPG Public Key: http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/scormier/publickey.asc
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