[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wednesday, October 6, 2004 7:44 pm
I sent this query prematurely.
# Aloha
# On this past Sunday(10-3-4) I posted this question to freebsd-gnome.
# I have not received any responses. Can anyone on this list help?
# Thanks
I am having a problem with CUPS and Gnome. I am running
Gnome 2.6.2, Gnome-Office, and Xorg all installed via ports.
I have a P4 2.6 with 1G of ram
%uname -a
FreeBSD p4.hawaii.rr.com 5.2.1-RELEASE-p9 FreeBSD
5.2.1-RELEASE-p9 #9: Sun Oct 3 10:25:03 HST 2004
root at p4.hawaii.rr.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/P4BSD1 i386
I recently attached a HP 890C DeskJet printer. I installed
Cups and gnome-cups-manager from ports. I am able to use the
web interface and install the printer. The test page prints
fine. I can also print a text file from gedit without trouble.
# I can also print a test page from gnome-cups-manager
The problem is with AbiWord2, gnumeric and the pdf files. The
Print Preview screens show blank and when I click on file; print;
and then the paper tab, the "Paper size" field is not bold and
reads "no options are defined". I did define the paper in the
web setup of cups and these programs do show the 890C as the printer.
Of course, I am unable to print from these programs.
Here is a little info:
%pkg_info | grep cups
cups-1.1.20.0 The Common UNIX Printing System: Metaport to
install comple
cups-base-1.1.20.0 The Common UNIX Printing System: headers, libs,
& daemons
cups-lpr-1.1.20.0 The CUPS BSD and system V compatibility
binaries (lp* comma
cups-pstoraster-7.07_1 GNU Postscript interpreter for CUPS printing
to non-PS prin
gnome-cups-manager-0.18_1,1 Admistration tool for cups
libgnomecups-0.1.8,1 Support library for gnome cups admistration
%cat /etc/printcap
# This file was automatically generated by cupsd(8) from the
# /usr/local/etc/cups/printers.conf file. All changes to this file
# will be lost.
HP890C|HP890C:rm=p4.hawaii.rr.com:rp=HP890C:
I have also done a "portupgrade -f libgnomeprint-\* libgnomeprintui-
\*"to no avail.
If anything else is needed I will be overjoyed to provide it.
Please CC me as I do not subscribe to this list. Thanks for your time.
Robert
I thought I had exhausted all the resources available to me but once
again I proved myself wrong. For the archives and all the newbies (me)
that have struggled with Cups. I found the simple answer here
http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/~ranga/notes/freebsd_cups.html
Specifically, I ran the following script in /usr/bin
#!/bin/sh
for i in lp* ; do mv $i $i.default ; ln -s /usr/local/bin/$i $i ; done
Or, if you ever do make buildworld & kernel stuff, put in /etc/make.conf:
CUPS_OVERWRITE_BASE=yes
NO_LPR=yes
Rob.
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