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TL_Amitola
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 Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 7:04 am Post subject: USB Printer in KDE w/ 2.6.1 kernel |
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Anybody know how to get a Lexmark Z22 printer connected with USB working in KDE w/ the 2.6.1 kernel. I found a thread from a few years ago that said how to get it working.
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=24813&highlight=lexmark
I followed it, but when I try to print anything it says "page printed successfully" but my printer does nothing. If you need me to post any information I'd be happy to, let me know. Thanks in advance. |
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pcassidy
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| Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 1:26 pm Post subject: |
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Are you running hotplug?
If not your USB printer probably isn't being detected by the kernel
what does
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Raoul_Duke
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| Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 2:20 pm Post subject: |
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I followed the printing guide from the gentoo docs for my usb printer and all went smoothly. That's on a 2.6.1 kernel and KDE 
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TL_Amitola
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| Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 6:47 pm Post subject: |
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ls -ltr /dev/usb
total 0
crw-rw---- 1 root root 180, 0 Dec 31 1969 lp0
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I'm under the assumption that the response would mean that it see's something on lp0 for a printer... correct me if I'm wrong though.
I'll double check the gentoo docs.... |
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TL_Amitola
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| Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 7:13 pm Post subject: |
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I unmerged cups and foomatic and started the guide over again.
Going through the gentoo printing setup guide:
Nothing prints when I do the following:
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# touch test.txt
# echo "Hello World" > test.txt
# cat test.txt > /dev/usb/lp0
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Also trying to use the control-L addition, nothing happens:
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# touch test.txt
# echo "Hello World^L" > test.txt
# cat test.txt > /dev/usb/lp0
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It doesn't give me an error or anything, it just doesn't do anything.
After attaching the printer, it gets logged here:
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tail /var/log/messages
.... various non-relevant messages
Jan 27 12:04:38 amitola hub 1-2:1.0: new USB device on port 3, assigned address 6
Jan 27 12:04:38 amitola drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 6 if 0 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x043D pid 0x0017
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pcassidy
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| Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 8:51 pm Post subject: |
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Did you have a look on linuxprinting.org?
Do they have anything to say about that particular printer? |
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TL_Amitola
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| Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 10:51 pm Post subject: |
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| I looked on LinuxPrinting.org, and they say to use the ghostscript driver for the Z32 because they're the same hardware; but it doesn't appear to work very well to begin with.. I'm still curious because I found a post from a year or so ago about someone getting their z22 working nicely without that ghostscript driver. I'll keep playing with it, if anyone has any ideas let me know, thanks |
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pcassidy
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| Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 11:42 am Post subject: |
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Strange that the printer won't even accept text. Is the printer definitely working?
Have you got another machine you can try it on?
Had a problem recently where my printer just needed switched off and back on again. USB connection must have gone stale or something.
Other than that I'm all out of ideas.. |
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TL_Amitola
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| Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 4:43 pm Post subject: |
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| Ya the printer works fine when I boot to Windows XP.. I've tried cycling power a few times... each time I can see it get logged as dissappearing and reappering in the log file... I'll keep playing with it and post any results. |
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TL_Amitola
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| Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2004 11:03 pm Post subject: |
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| Well, I don't know what has changed, but my printer readily accepted the test page today. My computer has been restarted a few times, switching between my Windows XP boot and Linux, and it seems to be working. I have absolutely no idea what has changed. |
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