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On Feb 3, 2008 3:57 PM, Dave Jones <Dave.Jones@××××××.nl> wrote: |
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> Kevin O'Gorman wrote on 04/02/08 00:19: |
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> >> I've installed cups and hplip.... I cannot follow the Gentoo |
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> >> printing guide, because that worthy document requires me to add |
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> >> hplip to the default runlevel, but hplip does not put anything in |
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> >> /etc/init.d. My printer is an old HP Laserjet 4M, which I usually |
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> >> run as a Postscrpt printer. |
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> >> What have I missed? |
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> > hp-setup stubbornly refuses to acknowledge /dev/lp0 |
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> > I got it to work, but don't really know what was wrong. The drive |
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> > that held my root directory and all configs had failed. Friday, i |
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> > got it back from the DiskSavers, along with the data on a new USB |
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> > external drive. Copying over the cups config files just magically |
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> > made the printer work locally. |
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> > That's enough for now. |
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> > I'm still struggling with a host of issues, so I'm going to ignore |
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> > the fact that I have no idea what keeps my CUPS working. |
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> > I think I've got cron backing up to that USB drive nightly -- using |
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> > rsync it takes about an hour for all partitions, unattended. Beats |
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> > the blazes out of hovering over the DVD drive. And i'm pretty sure I |
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> > won't end up in the same fix again. |
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> > But I've still got to get the LPD service going, not to mention |
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> > apache, vmware, ntp and gaim/pidgin. |
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> > And I have a day job. |
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> > I'll get around to it. Real Soon Now. |
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> Glad to hear that you're up and running, and thanks for the timely |
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> reminder to do a backup! 8-) |
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> Please check that you have USE=parport enabled for hplip |
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> The contents of /etc/hp/hplip.conf and the output of: |
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> hp-check |
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> hp-probe -bpar |
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> would also be interesting. |
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> Cheers, Dave |
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> -- |
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> gentoo-user@l.g.o mailing list |
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> It's gonna take a day or so to get all that. I'm in the midst of one of |
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those monster recompiles now, |
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and working on apache. Did I mention I have a day job? :o) |
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Thanks for the help. I did find that hplip was compiled without the parport |
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flag. Since local printing |
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on the parallel port is now working without it, I wonder what it does? |
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Thanks, and I'll get that info when I have things a bit more stable. |
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++ kevin |
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Kevin O'Gorman, PhD |
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