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I just did a printer install with a parport printer. It was a nightmare |
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because I was trying to do it without reading all the necessary |
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documentation, and the gentoo printing-howto didn't help since it made the |
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same wrong assumption I did: that the printer device is /dev/lp0. I think |
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there is some devfs compatibility mode where this works, but in general with |
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devfs the printer is at /dev/printers/0. Once I discovered this, magic |
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happened. |
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Anyway, you might want to add the following to the printing-howto: |
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The device for the printer is /dev/printers/0, not /dev/lp0 (unless you have |
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the devfs compatibility stuff). |
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To activate the modules for parallel port printers: |
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insmod parport |
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insmod parport_pc |
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insmod lp |
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However, you should probably mention that module autoloading will take care of |
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this once you get cups set up, I thought originally that I had to add these |
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to modules.autoload or something similar. |
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You don't have to do anything special for KDE, they automatically recognize |
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cups printers. |