Re: Trouble printing on Woody
On Sat, 2002-07-06 at 20:50, user list wrote:
> The principal problem is that there was no file named filter. This worked on a
> potato box but not on a woody box. I have a fix. I installed magicfilter.
> Printing works but is VERY slow. Do you know whether apsfilter is faster?
I don't find it slow; but I have a PostScript printer.
> I have other printing problems now. On my home machine, with a local printer,
> I can't get lprng to recognize any of the devices
>
> /dev/lp0
> /dev/lp1
> /dev/lp2
>
> I can list these and, prior to switching to testing, printing worked just fine.
>
> I'm putting the latter problem in a separate message (plea) because I'm
> completely hosed at home.
Does the kernel have the lp module loaded?
On kernel 2.2 and above, the first parallel port should always be
/dev/lp0. You should be able to do
cat /etc/group >/dev/lp0
If not, parallel printing is not supported by the kernel.
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