On Fri, 7 Nov 1997, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: > This system is mostly rex, with some bo additions: > > lpr: 5.9-13 > a2ps, apsfilter: not installed > gs-alladin: 4.03-7 > gs-fonts: 4.01-3 > > I think the most important thing we have in common is gs-aladdin. Can > you print if you use the filte directly, like in `filter < bla.ps'? > This works for me.
My printer is local, so printing through the filter has to send the output back through stdout (at least with my setup). I grabbed my /var/lib/dpkg/status files from around the time of the failure, here's a list of changes: (Note, I was trying to install 10 different things, so this list will have some random things on it. Including some failed installs.) svgalib-dummy installed, and later purged and replaced with svgalib1. ddd installed (this was something that broke, so I was trying to fix it) ncurses 3.4 installed lpr 5.9.20, installed workman, installed mpg123, installed xview, attempted to install but failed xviewg, see above xlib6g, another fail libg++27, installed playmidi, I think this failed too bplay, installed lesstifg, trying to get ddd from unstable lesstif, needed a newer version The only thing that should have an effect is lpr, so I downgraded it to to 5.9.13. The ps list now shows: gs -q -sDEVICE=cdj550 -sPAPERSIZE=letter ... but the problem is still there: printer light blinks, nothing happens. Also, I removed gs-aladin and installed plain gs. No effect. My next best guess is a complete purge and reinstall of the lpr, aps, etc. But before that, I'll verify that it's not the printer from win95 (I don't think I've had to use that for several months). Brandon P.S. the postscript stuff seems to work, I can view with ghostview, create with a2ps, etc. ----- Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We all know linux is great... it PGP: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] does infinite loops in 5 seconds" Phone: (757) 221-4847 --Linus Trovalds -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
