dman wrote: > On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 11:26:48PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > | > | This is the first time ever that I have difficulty printing on > | Linux. Weird. > | > | Bootup reports: > | parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [SPP,ECP,ECPEPP,ECPPS2] > | parport0: detected irq 7; use procfs to enable interrupt-driven operation. > | parport_probe: succeeded > | parport0: Printer, Canon S400 > | lp0: using parport0 (polling). > | > | Yet, nothing happens if I even cat a file to /dev/lp0 : > | > | $ cat logo.gri > /dev/lp0 > > This means the problem is in the parallel connection somewhere.
Well, it work in Windows so it's not the cable itself. > It looks like your CUPS setup is correct, at least it sent the job > through the filters and tried to send it to the device. > > | What is error status 32? > > I don't know, but from your comment above I think it means the > parallel port isn't working. > > You should see stuff (though maybe not useful stuff) if you cat a file > (try a plain text file) to the printer device. I reallly don't know > what the problem is since the boot messages look like it found the > hardware. > You do have the printer plugged in, right (just checking > the basics)? Do you have the 'lp' module loaded in addiiton to > parport and parport-pc? $ lsmod Module Size Used by parport_probe 3632 0 (autoclean) parport_pc 7536 1 (autoclean) lp 6192 0 (autoclean) parport 7968 1 (autoclean) [parport_probe parport_pc lp] nls_cp437 3904 2 (autoclean) vfat 9680 1 (autoclean) fat 30848 1 (autoclean) [vfat] es1370 22336 0 soundcore 3056 4 [es1370] 3c59x 19936 1 :-| Thanks! Peter
