On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Ron Johnson <ron.l.john...@cox.net> wrote:
> On 2010-03-15 17:29, Michael Yang wrote: > >> I was trying to setup the HP officejet J4580 on my debian laptop, lenny >> 5.0.3 (2.6.26). >> Although the driver was installed and the printer was detected without >> problem, it does not print any pages. When I print the page, it tells me the >> job has been submitted to the printer, and after a short while, it returns >> that the job has been completed, while the printer remains silent without >> printing anything. >> >> I used different ways to install drivers: >> 1. downloaded hplip all-in-one tar ball from HP's website >> 2. install hplip from debian's repository >> 3. install hpoj, xsane from debian's repository replacing hplip >> > > Maybe the HP hplip went in /usr/local and remnants are conflicting with the > Debian packages? > > I cleaned the old one when I install the new one. Have checked in /usr/local, no remnants found. I have few packages in /usr/local. > > All the above three ways can get the drivers loaded correctly, and the >> printer is probed automatically. But the printer does not respond to any >> command. (BTW: The printer works well on WindowsXP) >> >> Can any one share experience about this? >> >> > /var/log/cups has two files that might be useful: access_log and error_log. > >From the error_log, I found this info: E [15/Mar/2010:18:01:39 -0400] [cups-driverd] Bad driver information file "/usr/share/cups/drv/sample.drv"! It looks like it was loading the wrong driver. However, there is another .drv file under "/usr/share/cups/drv/hp/hpcups.drv". I can find the support information for this printer in the hpcups.drv. So then ... how to load this hpcups.drv instead of sample.drv it loaded as shown in error_log? Thanks, Michael. > Also, /var/log/syslog and /var/log/messages. > > -- > Ron Johnson, Jr. > Jefferson LA USA > > "If God had wanted man to play soccer, he wouldn't have given > us arms." Mike Ditka > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a > subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4b9ebb1e.5070...@cox.net > >
