For me (and I guess for many others), the main problem with Gentoo is hardware setup. Not that I'm complaining - I knew that when I chose Gentoo for my new computer, and I learned a lot so far.
Printer setup however, was a breeze. It just went according to the manual; configuring the paralell port, drivers installed with CUPS and foomatic. No problem at all.
Well, just one - the printer does not print. Any print job goes into the printing queue and then moves to the completed printing jobs folder. However, the printer just sits there, doing nothing (not even blinking a led), looking smug.
Now, I grant that the printer (a Lexmark Z42) is a POS and in addition, I'm saving a fortune on ink. On the other hand, my wife is starting to make sarcastic comments and reminds me daily that she _could_ print under windows.
My system has an MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum, with an AMD64 processor, running Gentoo amd64. CUPS gave no suspicious output (even after setting output to debug2). /var/log/messages told me that /dev/lp0 was successfully created, and lsmod shows that lp, parport, and parport_pc are loaded. Any ideas how to diagnose the problem?
Michael
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