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ed-gentoo n00b
Joined: 07 Jan 2003 Posts: 38 Location: Netherlands
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Posted: Sat Feb 08, 2003 11:39 am Post subject: Printing will not work |
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Hello. I have the following printers:
parallel printer Epson 880
usb printer Epson 810 (on usb hub)
cups, gimp-print-cups, and ghostprint
usbprinting modules, parallel print support in the kernel
Cups is working and starts at boot too. When I go to the administration page and add the epson 810 with corrosonding driver it is neatly visable on the printer page. It says /dev/usblp0 but it won't print. It stops at 6%. When I look in /dev there is no usblp0 but there is a empty folder usb, as well as a empty folder parralel. I can't make a parralel printer in cups for there is no option "parralel" in the pull down menu.
During the boot there are no visable errors. The usb hub is regonised and the it says usblp0 bidirectional ... (it goes to fast to read)
Questions are:
- how can I get a parralell printer configured using my cups
- how can I get usblp0
thanks in advance _________________ Why Linux?
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pjp Administrator
Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20502
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Posted: Sat Feb 08, 2003 8:14 pm Post subject: |
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Moved from Installing Gentoo. _________________ Quis separabit? Quo animo? |
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kermitjunior Apprentice
Joined: 04 Aug 2002 Posts: 167
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Posted: Sun Feb 09, 2003 4:24 pm Post subject: Same Problem... sort of |
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I'm going to recompile my kernel for good measure, but I'm certain I have parallel printer support compiled in. Cups runs great... shows everything fine. Weird part is there are about 7 Epson Stylus Color 900 listed in CUPS. I'm currently emerging -u world; emerge openoffice
so it could be awhile
BTW, I went through the entire Gentoo Printing Documentation and also the n00b's guide. No luck. _________________ -----
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sleek n00b
Joined: 09 Jan 2003 Posts: 71
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Posted: Sun Feb 09, 2003 6:35 pm Post subject: |
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For the parallel printer you need to do this:
emerge ghostscript
emerge cups
emerge gimp-print-cups
emerge ghostscript
Yes, you need to do the ghostscript twice in that order. In the kernel enable these:
Parallel port support (compiled in)
PC Style Hardware (compiled in)
Character Devices -->
Parallel printer support (compiled in)
Save the configuration, then compile your kernel as usual. Reboot into the new kernel and then point your browser to http://localhost:631
Once you get there, click on Manage Printers. Then Add Printer. If you are asked to log in, use your root username and root password. From there you'll do this:
Name: Epson_Stylus-880
Location: /dev/lp0
Description: My cool parallel port printer
Device: Parallel Port #1 (Epson)
Make: Epson
Mode: EPSON Stylus Color 880, CUPS + GIMP-Print v4.3.5 (en)
Then print a Test Page.
If you've followed all these steps then you should have a nice pretty page printed on your printer. _________________ Yesterday was the deadline for all complaints |
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kermitjunior Apprentice
Joined: 04 Aug 2002 Posts: 167
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Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2003 6:31 pm Post subject: Getting ready to give up. |
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sleek wrote: | For the parallel printer you need to do this:
If you've followed all these steps then you should have a nice pretty page printed on your printer. |
Followed to the letter. Nothing. I tried unmerging all printer related stuff, etc. Nothing anymore. I'm hitting the 24 hr mark for printer crap and I'm actually about to give up on it. That means I'll have to wait another few months until I feel like dealing with gentoo again. _________________ -----
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sleek n00b
Joined: 09 Jan 2003 Posts: 71
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Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2003 4:27 am Post subject: |
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In /etc/cups/cupsd.conf change the LogLevel configuration line to this:
LogLevel info
Then do:
/etc/init.d/cupsd restart
Now try to do all the instructions from my previous post and then try to print the test page.
/var/log/cups/error_log will contain any errors that cups has found
Perhaps they will help you solve your mystery problem _________________ Yesterday was the deadline for all complaints |
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ed-gentoo n00b
Joined: 07 Jan 2003 Posts: 38 Location: Netherlands
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Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2003 5:02 pm Post subject: |
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I changed some things in the kernel. I know have the following when typing lsmod:
printer module loaded (unused)
usbcore module loaded 1 (printer)
what can I do now to get the printer to work????? _________________ Why Linux?
For I think it's the most interesting, stable, and configurable OS there is!
..... that's if you have the motivation!
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bLanark Apprentice
Joined: 27 Aug 2002 Posts: 181 Location: Royal Berkshire, UK
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Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2003 2:52 pm Post subject: kernel modules to get /dev/lp0 ??? |
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Are you still having trouble? I have just got my old epson parallel printer working.
In the kernel, I have
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CONFIG_PARPORT=m
CONFIG_PARPORT_PC=m
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I also have a module called "lp", I have no idea which kernel option builds this, possibly this one from .config:
Before I can print, I have to modprobe lp (I could autoload it, of course), which loads parport_pc, which loads parport.
Now I can copy a text file to the /dev/lp0 device
which shows that the printer is working OK.
Does this help you any? _________________ .sig: access denied |
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