Thus spake Sebastiaan: > Hi, > > On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Vittorio wrote: > > > While under potato I didn't have any difficulty to make my Epson > > StylusColor 640 work using lpr and magicfilter, after installing woody > > from scratch I cannot print any longer. > > > > I'm using -as usual - lpr & magicfilter. I've installed the right > > filter using magicfilterconfig. To no avail! > > > > When I try for instance a "lpr /etc/motd" nothing happens. > > > > I've checked the connection with my printer issuing: > > echo /etc/motd > /dev/lp > > and the file is printed regularly. > > > > What should I check now to make the printer work? > > > Check /etc/printcap and try to figure out more with lpc (like 'lpc status > all') if the file arrives at the spool dir. > > Greetz, > Sebastiaan I don't know if this is your problem, but I seem to remeber that when I upgraded, my printer port changed from /dev/lp1 to /dev/lp0 - again, I don't know if that was a dist upgrade or a kernel upgrade, but it killed my printing for a while until I figured it out. HTH, Steve -- There but for the grace of God, goes God. -- Winston Churchill, speaking of Sir Stafford Cripps.
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