On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 10:37:51AM +0200, Andrea Vettorello wrote:
> bernard wrote:
>
> > For the last three days I have been banging my head against the wall
> > ("don't worry dear, its as pointy as ever it was" says my sympathetic
> > girlfriend) trying to get my printer to work. I installed potato some
> > time ago and tried to install cups, but didn't have much luck, so
> > I stripped everything off and re-installed lprng. I then used apsfilter
> > to configure things, the apsfilter printed a perfect test page but
> > when I used lpr....nothing! I tried with printtool which printed a
> > test ascii direct to the port but under lpr the printer muttered a
> > bit and then stopped. lpq -L gives me the following
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ lpq -L
> > Printer: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Queue: no printable jobs in queue
> > Status: accounting at start at 14:35:56.401
> > Status: opening device '/dev/lp0' at 14:35:56.452
> > Status: printing job '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' at 14:35:56.468
> > Status: printing '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' starting OF at 14:35:56.468
> > Status: printing data file 'dfA779debian', size 42 at 14:35:56.468
> > Status: IF filter finished at 14:35:57.631
> > Status: printing done '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' at 14:35:57.631
> > Status: accounting at end at 14:35:57.631
> > Status: finished '[EMAIL PROTECTED]', status 'JSUCC' at
> > 14:35:57.631
> > Status: subserver pid 5782 exit status 'JSUCC' at 14:35:57.636
> > Status: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: job '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' printed at
> > 14:35:57.637
> > Status: job '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' removed at 14:35:57.639
> >
> >
> >
> > I can't see much wrong with the permissions-I'm currently operating
> > root.
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l /var/spool/lpd
> > total 24
> > drwx------ 2 daemon lp 4096 Jul 2 14:53 lp
> > drwxr-xr-x 2 lp lp 4096 Jul 2 11:54
> > stcolor-a4-ascii-color
> >
> >
> > debian:/home/bernard# ls -l /var/spool/lpd/lp
> > total 28
> > -rw------- 1 daemon lp 1602 Jul 2 14:53 acct
> > -rw------- 1 daemon lp 0 Jul 2 13:56 control.lp
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root lp 35 Jul 2 13:56 filter ->
> > /usr/share/printtool//master-filter
> > -rw------- 1 daemon lp 187 Jul 2 13:56 general.cfg
> > -rw------- 1 daemon lp 0 Jul 2 13:56 log
> > -rw------- 1 daemon lp 5 Jul 2 14:53 lp
> > -rw------- 1 daemon lp 346 Jul 2 13:56
> > postscript.cfg
> > -rw------- 1 daemon lp 0 Jul 2 13:56 status
> > -rw------- 1 daemon lp 2847 Jul 2 14:53 status.lp
> > -rw------- 1 daemon lp 146 Jul 2 13:56 textonly.cfg
> > -rw------- 1 daemon lp
> >
> > I would be pathetically crawlingly grateful to anybody who could assist.
> > There is
> > absolutely no shortage of additional information-three days worth-if
> > required.
> >
>
> Frustrating when none reply, isn't?
>
> Not an expert here, but i'm using pdq/xpd (tracking unstable =) with a stylus
> color 880 and works quite well
> with the ghostscript stp driver. You don't mention your printer, but i will
> suggest, as a starting point,
> www.linuxprinting.org (IIRC). About the permission, try adding your user to
> the "lp" group (no need to use
> root)...
What about the permissions of your entry in /dev/lp0 or whatever
you're using? I believe the lprng daemon doesn't use root priviledges
and won't work if the permissions are set wrong even if you're logged
in as root.
I had this problem myself. I could print a test page in apsfilter
perfectly, but lprng printing wouldn't work until I changed the
permissions of /dev/lp0.
--
Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
