Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: setting up cups on gentoo

[Collins Richey <erichey2@home.com>]

On Sat, 26 May 2001 19:55:49 +0200 Sebastian Werner
<sebastian@werner-productions.de> wrote:

> I have played with cups some time, i have detected that it do not work if
> you 
> don't have loaded all the modules: parport, parport_pc, lp

	all these are loaded

> 
> Then i have started konquerer with http://localhost:631 and setup my
> canon 
> bjc 4300. I use the gimp-print package as driver. With the driver from 
> linux-printing.org (without stp) i don't have success. Don't know why.

	details on the gimp-print package?

> Am Samstag, 26. Mai 2001 18:35 schrieben Sie:
> > On Sat, 26 May 2001 09:05:52 -0600 Collins Richey <erichey2@home.com>
> >
> > wrote:
> > > Do we have any cups experts in the group?
> > >
> > > I'm trying to get cups to work on my gentoo distro - no automatic
> stuff
> > > like coas or webmin available.
> > >
> > > I've done the RTFM on the cups site several times, but no joy yet
> > >
> > > Here's what I've done
> > >
> > > cups installed and the daemon comes up ok.  ghostscript and enscript
> are
> > > also installed.
> > >
> > > per instructions on the cups site
> > >  	1) setup /usr/lib/cups/filter/cupsomatic (755)
> > > 	2) setup /usr/local/bin/foomatic-gswrapper (755) (this is in my
> $PATH)
> > > 	3) generated and added the appropriate Canon-BJC-610.....ppd file
> > > 	3) /etc/rc.d/init.d/cupsd start (this is the correct script on my
> > > system)
> > > 	4) lpadmin (fails with client error)
> > > 	5) http://localhost:631/admin
> > > 		brings up login screen (used root)
> > > 		did add printer dialog, prompts for  parport, Canon and the .ppd
> file
> > > 			I added
> > > 		says added lp0
> > > 		but manage printers says no printers!
> > > 	6) cat xyz | lpr -Plp0 puts a file in /var/spool/cups but no
> printing
> > > 	7) After turning on debugging messages, /var/log/cups/error_log says
> > > (among other things)
> > > 		Unable to convert file 0 to printable format for job 10!
> > > 		It doesn't seem to enter the cupsomatic script; therefor, no
> conversion
> > > 	8) All of the ***.conf files in /etc/cups look similar to what I
> have on
> > > 		Sybil,where the printer works.
> >
> > More info.  lpadmin logs the following errors
> >
> > 	lpadmin -dlp0 -vparallel:/dev/lp0 -mCanon-BJC-610-bjc610a0.upp.ppd -E
> > 		(Canon...ppd is in /usr/share/cups/model (per instructions))
> >
> > 	set_default(3, ipp://localhost/printers/lp0)
> > 	set_default: resource name '/printers/lp0' no good!
> >  	send_ipp_error(3, 406)
> >  	Sending error: client-error-not-found
> >
> > What do I do to get the resource name to be recognized?
> 
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Collins Richey
Denver area
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