canon s450

[skeletal29]

I cant get this thing to work . has any one else been able to get it to work? if so let me know

its a canon s450 which is parport and usb.

[pjp]

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[ch0c0b0]

I have this same printer and got it working using cups, ghostscript and the gimp-print-cups drivers. Best of all, cups has good how-to:
http://www.cups.org/sam.html

I highly recommend using the web interface to configure cups. Once you start cups:

[skeletal29]

yea ive gone throu it a million times and i tried ghost print and all that stuff and weve done it in the gentoo irc room but still nothing.


i need help exact howto on how to do this if youve done it.

[ch0c0b0]

[skeletal29]

oh my bad. i guess i dint see that you have the same printer?

I was wondering do you have any was of instant messaging? im positive ill need your help. i was wondering if you would mind. Im ready to bloody shoot my self i cant get this bitch to work.
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[skeletal29]

OK well here goes nothing.

i started cupsd. and i started the pritner and i got this in my lsmod

parport_pc 25128 1
parport 23360 1 [lp parport_pc]
vmmon 19636 0
input 3424 0
isofs 25312 0 (autoclean)
inflate_fs 18144 0 (autoclean) [isofs]
it87 11840 0
i2c-proc 6368 0 [it87]
i2c-isa 1284 0 (unused)
i2c-core 12960 0 [it87 i2c-proc i2c-isa]
es1371 26944 0
soundcore 3684 4 [es1371]
ac97_codec 10016 0 [es1371]
agpgart 12672 0 (autoclean) (unused)
bash-2.05a#


This is my dmesg

lp0: using parport0 (polling).
lp0: console ready
bash-2.05a#


This is my error log


bash-2.05a# tail error_log
I [08/Oct/2002:20:07:49 -0400] Started "/usr/lib/cups/cgi-bin/admin.cgi" (pid=11577)
I [08/Oct/2002:20:07:56 -0400] Started "/usr/lib/cups/cgi-bin/admin.cgi" (pid=11579)
I [08/Oct/2002:20:08:11 -0400] Started "/usr/lib/cups/cgi-bin/admin.cgi" (pid=11581)
I [08/Oct/2002:20:08:11 -0400] Setting CAnon device-uri to "parallel:/dev/lp0" (was "canon:/dev/lp0".)
I [08/Oct/2002:20:08:11 -0400] Setting CAnon printer-is-accepting-jobs to 1 (was 1.)
I [08/Oct/2002:20:08:11 -0400] Setting CAnon printer-state to 3 (was 3.)
I [08/Oct/2002:20:08:11 -0400] Saving printers.conf...
I [08/Oct/2002:20:08:11 -0400] Printer 'CAnon' modified by 'root'.
I [08/Oct/2002:20:08:16 -0400] Started "/usr/lib/cups/cgi-bin/printers.cgi" (pid=11583)
I [08/Oct/2002:20:08:25 -0400] Started "/usr/lib/cups/cgi-bin/printers.cgi" (pid=11585)
bash-2.05a#


This are some pics i took the liberty of taking

http://skeletal29.homelinux.net/DOWNLOADS/root1.jpg
http://skeletal29.homelinux.net/DOWNLOADS/root2.jpg
http://skeletal29.homelinux.net/DOWNLOADS/root3.jpg
http://skeletal29.homelinux.net/DOWNLOADS/root4.jpg
http://skeletal29.homelinux.net/DOWNLOADS/root5.jpg
http://skeletal29.homelinux.net/DOWNLOADS/root6.jpg


Ok well in the drivers there are 10 listings of the default canon s450 stuff. and the other 2 that i added were from linux printing and the people in the gentoo chat told me to try that.

Please let me know what the f i am doing wrong i would really apreciate your help.
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1.2ghz @ 1.32 Amd Athlon
Gigabyte GA-7VRXP Motherboard
256 Mb Samsung PC-2700 Ram
80 GbMAXTOR 6L080J4
LITEON DVD-ROM LTD163
Os: Gentoo Linux.

[lucindrea]

well i can say i have the same problem ... even the logs look the same ... printer jsut sits their ... giving me the finger

[MaDDeePee]

Could someone help me i installed the newest version of cups but i cant get my s450 to work wih t it. In the Cups http-config i could add a printer but there arent Canon drivers only others that wouldnt work!