On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 08:59:09AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 01:06:13PM -0400, Jim Seymour wrote: > >Have gone from bad to worse now. Nothing will print now. I have removed > >cups and switched back to lpr. Files get spooled but never print. In > >dmesg I can see: > > dmesg is almost never the right place to look. It contains only kernel > messages, not messages from software. Check /var/log/cups/error.log > Also try checking the permissions on /usr/lib/cups/backend/parallel to > make sure it's executable. >
I was looking at dmesg to see if any errors were being reported by the kernel in setting up the printer port. The cups error log never showed any problems. I checked the permissions on /usr/lib/cups/backend/parallel and all looked fine. I decided it couldn't get any worse and installed CUPS again. Did the following again from the "Debian Reference": # apt-get install cupsys foomatic-bin foomatic-db # apt-get install cupsys-bsd cupsys-driver-gimpprint Configured it again with what I think is the same driver I tried before and now it is working. I have no idea as to what is different that it works now. Before I could print only plain text files from things like mutt. Now printing from mozilla and openoffice are working. Wish I knew :-\ Thanks, Jim Seymour -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
