Re: Trouble printing on Woody [RESOLVED]
On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 10:27:50PM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote:
> 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.
>
That was the problem. All is now working. Thanks very much.
>
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