On Feb 3, 2008 3:57 PM, Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > > It's gonna take a day or so to get all that. I'm in the midst of one of those monster recompiles now, and working on apache. Did I mention I have a day job? :o)
Thanks for the help. I did find that hplip was compiled without the parport flag. Since local printing on the parallel port is now working without it, I wonder what it does? Thanks, and I'll get that info when I have things a bit more stable. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
