Lindsay Haisley posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Mon, 02 Jan 2006 20:43:52 -0600:
> I'm trying to configure an ancient HP Deskjet 1120C for my Gentoo desktop. > It's connected to the only parallel port on the system, and works with both > cups and in my Windows XP installation on VMware. > > The problem, however, is that cups wants to see the printer as /dev/lp0, > which requires that I have the lp module installed. VMware won't deal with > /dev/lp0, and insists on using /dev/parport0 and requires that the ppdev > module be installed. If the lp module is installed, VMware complains about > the printer port being in use by another device and turns off printing. > > Is there any way to get printing to work with both VMware and cups > simultaneously? > > Cups is a royal PITA!!! I certainly don't claim guru on this, but CUPS is a network printing system, and I'd /guess/ that while you likely can't have them both directly connected to the parallel port and printer, you should be able to configure either VMWare directly, or a print driver on the VM inside it, to print to CUPS, thru the loopback network interface. Note of course that because it's a network service, you may have to reconfigure Netfilter to allow the connections on the appropriate interface, if you are running a firewall. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html -- [email protected] mailing list
