[linux-help] Re: Printer on Red Hat 6.2

[Bruce Bales <bbales@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Parport problem?  I'm not familiar with parport.  The box worked when I had 
mandrake on it so I
tend to rule out hardware.  How can I check parport?
bruce

Lowell wrote:

> Bruce Bales wrote:
> >
> > I added /lp to /var/spool/lpd/
> > On the Mandrake machine, /lp had five or six files, so I copied them and 
> > put them into the
> > new /lp on the RH box.  One of the files is called "filter" and it points 
> > to a number (12)
> > of .fpi files in /usr/lib/rhs/rhs-printfilters/.  To my surprize, the RH 
> > box has all of
> > them.  They are named "gif-to-pnm.fpi" and other things to pnm and one is 
> > "pnm-to-ps.fpi".
> >
> > I presume these change all the different formats to pnm and then pnm to 
> > postscript.
> >
> > I changed printcap back just like the Mandrake box.  See below.
> >
> > I think I have the RH box just like the Mandrake, which works with this 
> > printer, but I still
> > get unknown printer when I try to print.
> >
> > How can I determine if printing is enabled in the kernel?
> >
> > ##PRINTTOOL3##  LOCAL cdj670 300x300 letter {} DeskJet670 Default 1
> >  lp:\
> >       :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
> >       :mx#0:\
> >       :sh:\
> >       :lp=/dev/lp0:\
> >       :if=/var/spool/lpd/lp/filter:
> > bruce
> >
> > Steven Saner wrote:
> >
> > > 1. You need to make sure that the directory /var/spool/lpd/lp exists
> > >
> > > 2. You need to fix the if line to point to the actual filter file that
> > >    you want to use, probably if=/home/magic/magic-1.2.orig/filters/cdj670
> > >
> > > Are you sure that you have printer support in your kernel?
>
>                 Could this be another parport problem?
>
> "Nothing is foolproof to a
>    sufficiently talented fool!"
>
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