Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new system, printing suddenly fails for all printers

2009-07-06 Thread Roland Puntaier
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[gentoo-user] Re: new system, printing suddenly fails for all printers

2009-07-03 Thread walt
On 07/02/2009 05:46 PM, Alan E. Davis wrote: I've been wrangling with a new gentoo install, on an AMD X2 64 bit machine. It's been a problematic experience, but when the system works right, it works really right. Printing has suddenly failed. I had installed foo2zjs in support of an HP P1005

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new system, printing suddenly fails for all printers

2009-07-03 Thread Alan E. Davis
Thank you Walt: On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 12:02 AM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: I've had both problems several times in the past, always caused by dumb things that, of course, should never happen but often do anyway. Me too. Maybe so this time as well, at least I hope so. First the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new system, printing suddenly fails for all printers

2009-07-03 Thread Alan E. Davis
Well, like Walt said, printing configuration has often been a problem. When I checked, after rebooting after an upgrade to ~amd64, the printers were both setup as network printers. They are not. As soon as I changed the widget to indicate the printer was local, it started priinting! Dumb things

[gentoo-user] Re: new system, printing suddenly fails for all printers

2009-07-03 Thread walt
On 07/03/2009 08:48 AM, Alan E. Davis wrote: There is no PCM channel in alsamixer! Maybe I will try alsamixergui, where I saw switches once. Do you have something like this in /dev/snd?: $ls -l /dev/snd total 0 crw-rw 1 root audio 116, 0 2009-07-03 04:42 controlC0 crw-rw 1 root

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new system, printing suddenly fails for all printers

2009-07-03 Thread eamjr56
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new system, printing suddenly fails for all printers Thank you Walt: On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 12:02 AM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: I've had both problems several times in the past, always caused by dumb things that, of course, should never happen but often

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new system, printing suddenly fails for all printers

2009-07-03 Thread Alan E. Davis
On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 6:20 AM, eamj...@gmail.com wrote: Why all the handwringing? Just use hplip when using a HP printer and all the hair-pulling will disappear in seconds. Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry eamjr56: I also am amazed at the support from HP. Recalling the days some