Erm one thing I noticed reading that was the first half made reference to lp0, whereas the printcap referes to lp1.
Cheers, Corey Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Horacio MG wrote: > > Hi, > > (please, Cc: the answer to me as I'm not on the list) > > just got this new brand printer, and I'm trying to get something printed > with it, but never configured a printer before now. > > The printer is recognized, as advertised by the relevant parts of dmesg: > > parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [SPP,ECP,ECPEPP,ECPPS2] > parport0: detected irq 7; use procfs to enable interrupt-driven > operation. > parport0: Printer, Xerox DocuPrint C15 > > lp0: using parport0 (polling). > > > I had lpr installed, and have just installed several other programs > (Aladdin Ghostscript). Then went to read the relevant howtos, but I > can't see it clear enough. > > I've tried to print a postscript file from 'gv', and also tried a > simpler 'man man | col -b | lpr', but all I get is those jobs in the > spool: > > $ lpq > waiting for lp to become ready (offline ?) > Rank Owner Job Files Total Size > 1st horacio 2 /home/horacio/tmp/phakic.ps 496596 bytes > 2nd horacio 5 (standard input) 23645 bytes > > and the status is: > > $ lpc status > lp: > queuing is enabled > printing is enabled > 2 entries in spool area > waiting for lp to become ready (offline ?) > > Ok, so there must be something I haven't done... sure, I haven't set the > environment variable in .profile. According to the howtos this should > be set as: > > PRINTER="printer_name"; export PRINTER > > Ah, but what's printer_name? Is it perhaps that I have to make a > symlink in /dev/ to /dev/lp0 (say, /dev/xerox -> /dev/lp0), and then: > > PRINTER="xerox"; export PRINTER > > or? > > Also, I didn't apply any changes to /etc/printcap, so the only > uncommented lines are: > > lp|Generic dot-matrix printer entry:\ > :lp=/dev/lp1:\ > :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\ > :df=/etc/filter.ps:\ > :tf=/etc/filter.pcl:\ > :af=/var/log/lp-acct:\ > :lf=/var/log/lp-errs:\ > :pl#66:\ > :pw#80:\ > :pc#150:\ > :mx#0:\ > :sh: > > should I then change "Generic" by "xerox"? And how about the > "dot-matrix" stuff? My printer is a deskjet! > > In case it's of any importance, my /var/spool/lpd/lp/ dir looks: > > > total 520 > 1 drwxrwxr-x 2 root lp 1024 jul 10 17:47 ./ > 1 drwxrwxr-x 5 root lp 1024 jul 10 16:08 ../ > 1 -rw-r----x 1 root lp 4 jul 10 17:47 .seq > 1 -rw-rw---- 1 daemon lp 102 jul 10 17:15 cfA002AL6s9Ty > 1 -rw-rw---- 1 daemon lp 72 jul 10 17:47 cfA005An49Sei > 488 -rw-rw---- 1 horacio lp 496596 jul 10 17:15 dfA002AL6s9Ty > 25 -rw-rw---- 1 horacio lp 23645 jul 10 17:47 dfA005An49Sei > 1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4 jul 10 17:15 lock > 1 -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 43 jul 10 17:15 status > > > where the file lock is a number... meaning? > > > *Please, send me a Cc: as I am not subscribed* > > > TIA > > -- > Horacio Anno MMDCCLIII A.U.C. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Valencia - ESPA?A > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Key fingerprint = F4EE AE5E 2F01 0DB3 62F2 A9F4 AD31 7093 4233 7AE6 > > > -- > Horacio Anno MMDCCLIII A.U.C. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Valencia - ESPA?A > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Key fingerprint = F4EE AE5E 2F01 0DB3 62F2 A9F4 AD31 7093 4233 7AE6 > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
