On Mon, 09 Aug 1999, Keith Robinson wrote:
> On 9 Aug 99, at 19:02, Arandir wrote:
>
> > Sounds like the print's going off into the ether. Try uping lp1 instead of lp0.
> > On my system, I only have one parallel port, LPT1 under DOS, but under Linux it
> > is lp1 and not lp0. Try "ls > /dev/lp1" to see if that the port or not.
>
> from the vterm I get an error message:
> bash: /dev/lp1: Device not configured
>
> so I went into printtool and edited the printer to lp1 and tried
> the printtool test. error message
> couldn't write file "dev/lp1": no such device or address.
>
> and back to vterm with same result as above.
Okay then. When you try to "add" a new printer with printtool, you should get a
dialog telling you which parallel ports or detected. Which ever one it detects,
use that. If it doesn't detect any at all, then check out "MAKEDEV". If it does
detect one, in printtool, select Tests->Print ASCII Directly to Port. If you
don't get at least some garbage out of your printer, then you might have a bad
connection or device file. Again, check out "MAKEDEV". If you do get at least
garbage, then the port is set up fine, and you just need to find the correct
printer.
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Arandir...
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