On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 14:25:56 -0700, Alice E. Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dylan, > > Thanks for the pointers. I pulled up a terminal, typed "su" as my son-in-law has had > me do, then typed in my password, then the line you gave me for CUPS. I got "command > not found" >
Hmm, well, first of all, you can run this command without the "su". Second of all, there is just no way the "ps" command isn't there on your system. Did you type exactly what was suggested, without the dollar sign (that was to indicate the prompt)? You could also try: ps -ef | grep cupsd > My printer has been connected to this computer and working well since early last > November. The cable is connected securely, printed out the test page. The orange > light is blinking indicating either paper is needed or is ready to print. But when I > put in paper it pulls all the pages through and types lines of symbols/etc. across > the top of each page. > > I have dusted it out, tried to make sure there's not anything in there that's > keeping it from working. Actually, when this first happened, my son-in-law did > something that he said was to "clean out the old jobs that were still in there" and > it worked for two days. Then it started the same process again. > Ahh the page-after-page-of-random-characters problem. I have a 5550 at home connected to my Mandrake 10 box. I haven't seen this in a while though. I wish I could remember what exactly I did to fix it...but I think I opened up the cups admin web page and manually cancelled all jobs there, as well as unplugging the printer power cable from the wall for a few minutes. To get to the cups admin page, open your web browser and for the url type: http://localhost:631 Then click on "manage jobs," then I think there is where you might see the bad print jobs that you need to cancel. Just cancel all the print jobs. I think this might help, let us know whether it does or not. Bryan _______________________________________________ PDXLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pdxlug.org/mailman/listinfo/pdxlug
