Hi,
The gentoo adventure continues. Got xsane working, nvidia working, KDE & Gnome are up but got problems with cups/foomatic.
My Epson stylus C60 workes fine on Debian so I know its a software problem. I followed the "Gentoo printing guide"
loaded the modules parport, parport_pc (Parellel port printer)
checked /var/log/messages ... got lp0: using parport0 (polling) ... looked good,
tried the echo "hello world" > test.txt cat test.txt > /dev/lp0
Zip .....
I googled & found some epsons won't talk unless you
escputil -u -s -r /dev/lp0
To switch them out of "packet mode" and into ASCII mode When I tried it I got the error "cannot read from lp0"
I checked /etc/groups .. I don't think I have to be registerd to any particluar group.
Anyhow I went ahead with foomatic, found the "driver" "Epson-Stylus_C60" Followed the instructions ... logged onto localhost:631 there is CUPS but no option for a C60 printer under "configure printer"
Any ideas anyone ?
Dave
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OK I've played & played at this one. I have followed the "Gentoo printing guide" to the letter but no joy.
The foomatic-configure ..... command does not throw up any errors but does not generate a ppd file.
I eventually got it working by investigating /usr/share/cups/model/gimp-print/en/....
finding a ppd.gz file, unzipping it & putting it in /usr/share/cups/model It then worked !!
Or did foomatic-configure generate this file in the first place ... mmm ....
Anyhow it now works !!
Dave
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