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On Saturday 18 February 2006 23.20, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> I'll jump in here also as I'm on an AMD64 which otherwise is workign |
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> pretty well but I have numerous printing problems also. Maybe my |
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> problems are similar to Thierry's and some answers will help him. (I |
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> hope...) |
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> My environment is an AMD64 machine running Gentoo-64 and then two |
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> printers on my network. One is an Epson on an older FC2 machine and |
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> the other is an HP on a Mac Mini running OS X. I periodically lose the |
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> ability to print anthing. Sometimes I print from the AMD64 to the MAc |
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> using the lpr command and it can take up to 2 hours before the file |
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> gets printed. Other times I can print and it comes out immediately. |
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> One most frustrating problem is that simple commands like lpstat -a do |
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> not work unless BOTH the Mac and the FC2 machine are on. If EITHER |
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> machine is turned off lpstat fails tellign me it cannot reach the CUPS |
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> server. If I try to print when either machine is off I'm likely to get |
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> nothing. |
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> Is this normal? It would be better if it would just work with whatever |
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> is turned on. Is there a way to fix this? |
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> Thanks, |
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> Mark |
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Well, I unfortunately can't answer to these questions. Once I've got Linux |
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running smoothly on the amd64 I'll probably take a look at Mac printing... |
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However, I figured out what my problem was when, after I changed some USE |
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flags and followed the advice to recompile things to take these flags into |
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account, I once again ran into the problem of gnome-print not compiling. |
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So I googled a bit to try and understand what exactly gnome-print was doing (I |
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have not compiled Gnome "itself" as I use KDE), didn't understand it really |
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but found a statement saying that "programs could use gnome-print or |
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gimp-print". |
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I did not have gnome-print and could not get it, so I emerged gimp-print |
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and... my computer prints! |
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So it appears that cups runs on another "level" than gimp-print and that both |
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are required to get something printed, while kde... well, I don't know what |
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kde uses but here it obviously needed gimp-print. Perhaps someone with more |
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knowledge on this list will explain, anyway as far as I am concerned it now |
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works. |
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Thierry |
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The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a |
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capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the |
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safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself? |
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Frank Zappa |
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