Re: My printer won't print.
Hi Paolo
On 2001.11.08 15:49 Paolo Falcone wrote:
Stephen W. Juranich wrote:
>For whatever reason, my printer died. I replaced lpd with lprng.
After
>fiddling around with magicfilter and magicfilterconfig --force
several times
>and a couple of reboots, the best I can manage is a single piece of
paper
>saying:
>
>Unknown device: hpdj
>
>Any suggestions on how to diagnose/solve this problem?
That was also one problem when I tried converting from bsd's lpr to
lprng. Anyway, the first thing I did was I purged lpr and magicfilter
then reinstalled them again. then again, you might get away with
just modifying /etc/printcap. Then selected the appropriate filter
for my printer (mine was an HP Deskjet 670C - I set the filter to
the economy-mode printer filter dj690c-low as indicated in the
options in magicfilterconfig).
i assume you know the naming conventions if you're using parallel
port printers in the 2.2 or 2.4 kernel. what once was the /dev/lp1
device then is now the /dev/lp0 device in 2.4.
Am I just crazy, or do I remember 2.0 following the same convention as
does 2.4 now? In fact, to take it further, did the convention in 2.4
not change somewhere in the middle of the series?
I don't know about the last point for sure, but I ran 2.4.1 for a long
time (was waiting for the VM shite do be sorted before I upgraded
again). Then 2.4.13 came along, and from what I read in lkml and
lwn.net, it seemed the bomb.
Some time later I rember my printing stoped working. After cursing
around a while, I saw my /etc/printcap pointed to lp1, changed it to
lp0, and back in business we were. Unless my recent woody upgrade
poked around there, but I remember keeping most of my config files....
Paolo Alexis Falcone
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