Re: Problems switching to debian
On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, M.C. Vernon wrote:
>
> > 1) printing is completely dead. It's as though I didn't have a printer.
> > Nothing I do has any affect on it. This has nothing to do with any changes I
> > made to my system. It's dead from the moment I install.
> >
> > I have a WinBook XL (which runs linux great in general by the way) and a
> > DeskJet 500, as well as a parallel port iomega zip drive.
> >
> > I don't think it's the zip drive, because I tried installing from scratch
> > without it, and it didn't help.
> >
> > The only unusual thing I can think of is that when I got the printer cable,
> > I needed one with pins sticking out of both ends (instead of with one male
> > and one female connector) because that's just the way the ports are
> > built. The salesperson was surprised at this, but I figure the cord plugs in
> > so that can't be the problem.
> >
> > I've recompiled both a 2.0.34 and a 2.1.126 kernel several times, with no
> > luck. I've looked through the Printing HOWTO, and just generally poked
> > around in /etc with no luck. I'm desperate.
>
> Have you tried running magicfilter? Is the lpr daemon running?
I don't have magicfilter, but even catting to the /dev/lp? files don't work.
But I do have the daemon running: ps aux includes this line:
lp 13914 0.0 0.9 1556 868 ? S 20:29 0:00 lpd MAIN
Zack
> HTH,
>
> Matthew
>
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