From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FB4Is-0002JL-7T for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 06:13:46 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1K6CpOi014900; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 06:12:51 GMT Received: from web31703.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web31703.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.201.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1K693vV011621 for ; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 06:09:04 GMT Received: (qmail 73056 invoked by uid 60001); 20 Feb 2006 06:09:02 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=Ttj+yiFEL5kiYMEOXzez2aWdt+UJRoVuoE5lJp1YipFqWu+FmWhsdKEJz7oSeYZXM8ewznxm2m0lHkj3x/9D6EV9m3cRlDyONfYmgkB5UP/anFb2vhw+gbif/dLH8ctIIhDZy6IhnKoPQDnSwTx3JNglEVU2kRNmwCV8yqq8CWU= ; Message-ID: <20060220060902.73054.qmail@web31703.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Received: from [64.228.98.105] by web31703.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sun, 19 Feb 2006 22:09:02 PST Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 22:09:02 -0800 (PST) From: maxim wexler Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] got lprng? To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <200602191429.23397.manuel@mclure.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: bc511872-d5c6-4863-b12e-55fd3c39f867 X-Archives-Hash: 43c7bb92ba97bf1992bfe49f44dd3502 --- "Manuel A. McLure" wrote: > On Sunday 19 February 2006 01:53 pm, maxim wexler > wrote: > > Then you're part of a dying breed evidently. > > > > I wasn't able to get cups to work so installed > lprng. > > > > For more details on my problem go to the archives > and > > search against my name and 'print' and 'cups' > > I can't imagine how frustrated you are at this > point. > > If you wouldn't mind, I have some troubleshooting > suggestions. It appears that > perhaps you might have some problems with the actual > printer interface > (/dev/lp0), so let's make sure that works well. > > FIrst, make sure nothing, even lprng, is using > /dev/lp0 - shut down lprng and > make sure there are no processes left around. > > Then run the following command: > > /bin/echo -e -n > Hello\\015\\012World\\015\\012\\014 >textfile.txt > > And finally > > cat textfile.txt >/dev/lp0 This looks like an elaborate form of echo -e "This text should appear on the printer\f" > /dev/lp0 Which works fine. Also, from apsfilter I was able to print a test page. So the hardware seems to be OK. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list