Re: printing stopped working--any ideas?
lpd is running, I'm using CUPS, so maybe(?) that means I don't have an
lpr (this is tricky for me to put all these pieces together in my head,
still). If I print from gimp, lpstat briefly shows an item in the queue,
then the item is gone, with no other effects I can see. I checked the
/var/spool/lpd area and the only contents are two 21 and 25 byte files,
/var/spool/lpd/lp/lock and .../status.
I didn't see anything useful in the /var/logs/messages or .../syslog. If
I boot into win2k I can print fine on the same printer, even from the
command-line there ("type filename.txt > LPT1").
It all was working a few days ago, just before I changed from 2.4.17 to
2.4.5 kernels, reconfigured vmware 2.04 for the 2.4.5 kernel (won't run
on 2.4.17 I guess), changed some security on /dev/lp0 and on
/dev/parport0, then changed all those things back to the way they were
before (I think!).
Anything else I can check for, to see why "cat > /dev/lp0" does nothing?
I'm a little rough on this aspect of things. Thanks!!!
Luke
> Re: printing stopped working--any ideas?
> From:
>
> "Karsten M. Self" <kmself@ix.netcom.com>
> Date:
>
> Wed, 2 Jan 2002 21:00:26 -0800
> To:
>
> debian-user@lists.debian.org
>
>
> on Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 11:00:12AM -0700, Luke Call
(lukedebian@onemodel.org) wrote:
>
>
>>When I try to print directly to /dev/lp0 from the command line ("cat
>>filename.txt > /dev/lp0") nothing happens; printing from applications
>>like gimp doesn't work either. It did work until recently, and I've
>>tried various HOWTOs, searching the web, and taking the system back to
>>the same configuration it had when it was working, but now I'm stumped
>>and out of ideas. It's not the printer because it works when I boot
>>windows instead. Any tips or things I could try?
>>
>>I'm using a debian "stable" system on intel, with some packages
>>upgraded to "testing", and a 2.4.5 or 2.4.17 kernel. It did work with
>>this configuration before, not sure what else I may have changed.
>>Thanks in advance for any ideas, good or bad.
>>
>
> Diagnostics? Is lpr running? What's output of 'lpq'?
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