Anton Graham wrote: > > Submitted 09-Aug-00 by OS: > > I've been trying to get CUPS working (since it appears to have a Lexmark 1000 > > driver), but now everything is broken !!! I can't even get a list of available > > printers ! :-( > Did you start the CUPS daemon after installing the CUPS package (/etc/rc.d/init.d/cups start). When you reboot it starts automatically. > I managed to get it to make an lm1100 spit out a piece of paper, but it > wouldn't actually print anything. The cartridge just moved around a lot. > Maybe it doesn't like things like ls | lpr? > Perhaps there is a PPD for this printer but not the correct backend filter. I will make a backend filter package soon (see below). > In the web interface thing, you need to select "Manufacturer" as opposed to > "Lexmark" to get to the ppd's for the 1000 series (assuming you're getting > that far). > When you use the new cups-drivers-0.36-4mdk package the drivers are well sorted, you will find all available Lexmark PPDs under LEXMARK. Please restart the CUPS daemon after updating the package to get the PPD file system structure read again. The ordering of the PPDs in the web interface is not done by the directories, it is done by the *Manufacturer: lines inside the PPD files. In the new package these lines were corrected (or added when they were missing). Later I will also add a package with some filters which are not part of GS but seperate executables. Till
