Kevin O'Gorman wrote on 04/02/08 00:19: >> I've installed cups and hplip.... I cannot follow the Gentoo >> printing guide, because that worthy document requires me to add >> hplip to the default runlevel, but hplip does not put anything in >> /etc/init.d. My printer is an old HP Laserjet 4M, which I usually >> run as a Postscrpt printer. >> What have I missed?
> hp-setup stubbornly refuses to acknowledge /dev/lp0 > I got it to work, but don't really know what was wrong. The drive > that held my root directory and all configs had failed. Friday, i > got it back from the DiskSavers, along with the data on a new USB > external drive. Copying over the cups config files just magically > made the printer work locally. > That's enough for now. > I'm still struggling with a host of issues, so I'm going to ignore > the fact that I have no idea what keeps my CUPS working. > I think I've got cron backing up to that USB drive nightly -- using > rsync it takes about an hour for all partitions, unattended. Beats > the blazes out of hovering over the DVD drive. And i'm pretty sure I > won't end up in the same fix again. > But I've still got to get the LPD service going, not to mention > apache, vmware, ntp and gaim/pidgin. > And I have a day job. > I'll get around to it. Real Soon Now. Glad to hear that you're up and running, and thanks for the timely reminder to do a backup! 8-) Please check that you have USE=parport enabled for hplip The contents of /etc/hp/hplip.conf and the output of: hp-check - and - hp-probe -bpar would also be interesting. Cheers, Dave -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
