Hi Paolo On 2001.11.08 15:49 Paolo Falcone wrote:
Stephen W. Juranich wrote: >For whatever reason, my printer died. I replaced lpd with lprng. After >fiddling around with magicfilter and magicfilterconfig --force several times >and a couple of reboots, the best I can manage is a single piece of paper >saying: > >Unknown device: hpdj > >Any suggestions on how to diagnose/solve this problem? That was also one problem when I tried converting from bsd's lpr to lprng. Anyway, the first thing I did was I purged lpr and magicfilter then reinstalled them again. then again, you might get away with just modifying /etc/printcap. Then selected the appropriate filter for my printer (mine was an HP Deskjet 670C - I set the filter to the economy-mode printer filter dj690c-low as indicated in the options in magicfilterconfig). i assume you know the naming conventions if you're using parallel port printers in the 2.2 or 2.4 kernel. what once was the /dev/lp1 device then is now the /dev/lp0 device in 2.4.
Am I just crazy, or do I remember 2.0 following the same convention as does 2.4 now? In fact, to take it further, did the convention in 2.4 not change somewhere in the middle of the series? I don't know about the last point for sure, but I ran 2.4.1 for a long time (was waiting for the VM shite do be sorted before I upgraded again). Then 2.4.13 came along, and from what I read in lkml and lwn.net, it seemed the bomb. Some time later I rember my printing stoped working. After cursing around a while, I saw my /etc/printcap pointed to lp1, changed it to lp0, and back in business we were. Unless my recent woody upgrade poked around there, but I remember keeping most of my config files....
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