Michael Ulm wrote:
For me (and I guess for many others), the main problem
with Gentoo is hardware setup. Not that I'm complaining -
I knew that when I chose Gentoo for my new computer, and
I learned a lot so far.
Printer setup however, was a breeze. It just went according
to the manual; configuring the paralell port, drivers installed
with CUPS and foomatic. No problem at all.
Well, just one - the printer does not print. Any print job
goes into the printing queue and then moves to the completed
printing jobs folder. However, the printer just sits there,
doing nothing (not even blinking a led), looking smug.
Now, I grant that the printer (a Lexmark Z42) is a POS and
in addition, I'm saving a fortune on ink. On the other hand,
my wife is starting to make sarcastic comments and reminds
me daily that she _could_ print under windows.
My system has an MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum, with an AMD64
processor, running Gentoo amd64. CUPS gave no suspicious
output (even after setting output to debug2).
/var/log/messages told me that /dev/lp0 was successfully
created, and lsmod shows that lp, parport, and parport_pc
are loaded.
Any ideas how to diagnose the problem?
Finally, I found the time to track down this one. Owing to
some foomatic weirdness the ppd file for the printer was not
installed. The really annoying bug however, seems to come
from CUPS, which did not complain at all that no ppd file
was found, silently did send nothing to the printer, and
filed the job as successfully completed.
Hooray! At last, I can print (well, I could print if my
children hadn't used up all the printer paper for their
doodlings).
Michael
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