KDE 3.2 breaks printing, kghostview - can anyone help me?

[nl]

I'm wondering if anyone out there can help out with this, since upgrading to
KDE 3.2 seems to have borked my printing system, as well as other stuff.

I have cups installed, and I use it to print to a network-based printer. The
printer is an HP LJ 5 connected via a Linksys ethernet printserver. Cups is
configured to print to the printer via the URI socket://<ipaddress>:4010.
Under kde 3.1, I had everything working. I was able to print to this printer
with the lpr command, from KDE applications (Konq, KMail, etc) as well as
from Mozilla (configured in prefs.js to use the kde printing system) and from
MS Word running under crossover office.

I upgraded yesterday to KDE 3.2, and discovered tonight when I went to print
from Word that nothing comes out on the printer. Basically, I can only print
if I do so directly from a KDE application, and even that isn't quite right.

For instance: If I print an email message from KMail or a web page from
Konqueror, it "works:, but the layout is in a relatively huge font, which was
not the case prior to KDE 3.2 when the printing looked just fine and was
proportionate to what I was seeing on the screen.

Printing from MS Word or from Mozilla causes the activity light on the printer
to flash a few times, and then stop, and nothing prints at all. The same is
true when I use mozilla to connect to the cups server (localhost:631) and
request a test page.

I know the printer is OK, because printing from a WinXP system on my LAN works
fine.

I could use some help, because I am totally stuck here. Printing has been the
biggest problem I have had since switching to gentoo a few months ago, and
once again I find it to be borked!

On another note, kghostscript is also broken since the upgrade to 3.2. WHen I
try to open any postscript file, kghostscript just displays a blank page -
again, things worked just fine with kde 3.1

I should note that I did not unmerge kde 3.1 before going to 3.2; I just did
emerge sync, emerge -u world and got 3.2. In my home dir, .kde is a symlink
to .kde-3.2 as I would think it should be. I will note, however, that my path
includes both kde 3.2 and 3.1 (probably wrong), but I tried opening a shell,
redefinign the path to exclude 3.1, and then using kghostscript - still
doesn't work.

Any help appreciated, as this is major borkage for me!

Thanks.
nl

[bokkepoot]

I had similar problems with my samsung ml-1210 after upgrading to kde 3.2.0; re-emerging cups fixed the problem for me.

[michaelb]

This request would be more appropriate in the desktop forum.
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