Re: OOo Printer Setup Frustration - Elaboration

2004-12-07 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 13:45 -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 11:17:58AM +, Chris Halls wrote: > > On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 18:59 -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > > > The other box does not find its attached printer and insists on using a > > > generic printer which only sp

Re: OOo Printer Setup Frustration - Elaboration

2004-12-02 Thread Brian Astill
On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 01:45 pm, Thomas H. George wrote: > If oopadmin is started on Box #1 the add printer option apparently > looks in the /usr/share/foomatic/db/source/printer directory - at > least the only choices it offers are found in that directory and > DeskJet drivers are not among these choi

Re: OOo Printer Setup Frustration - Elaboration

2004-12-02 Thread Brian Astill
On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 01:45 pm, Thomas H. George wrote: > If oopadmin is started on Box #1 the add printer option apparently > looks in the /usr/share/foomatic/db/source/printer directory - at > least the only choices it offers are found in that directory and > DeskJet drivers are not among these choi

Re: OOo Printer Setup Frustration - Elaboration

2004-12-02 Thread Thomas H. George
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 11:17:58AM +, Chris Halls wrote: > On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 18:59 -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > > The other box does not find its attached printer and insists on using a > > generic printer which only spits out dozens of blank pages. If, > > instead, I comment out exp

Re: OOo Printer Setup Frustration

2004-12-02 Thread Chris Halls
On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 18:59 -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > The other box does not find its attached printer and insists on using a > generic printer which only spits out dozens of blank pages. If, > instead, I comment out export SAL_DISABLE_CUPS=1 openoffice finds the > attached printer but

OOo Printer Setup Frustration

2004-12-01 Thread Thomas H. George
I have two boxes both using a kernel completed from kernel-source-2.4.26 and both using CUPS and openoffice.org. Both have the latest dist-upgrade from testing. On both I have edited /etc/openoffice/openoffice.conf and have enabled export SAL_DISABLE_CUPS=1. One box finds its attached printer,