Is there a command to send a signal to a printer to see if parallel port is working?
I have lost all printing (and am hopelessly lost in the Printing HOWTO also). I have had intermittent printing problems for some time (after upgrading to RH 7.2, from 7.0, which may or may not have any relevance)-- a print job might start suddenly 1/2 hour after it was started -- plain ASCII file, or a .png might print immediately. A short .dvi might print, a long one print,slowly, 6 pages and then time out. (Sometimes "waiting for subserver to end" or "processing", but generally lpq showed all well, and lp0 "busy") I removed cable to try another printer, which failed completely. Now my inkjet will not print at all. Is it possible that the parallel port -- which is not well supported on the box--has broken connection on the motherboard rather than it being a linux problem? Can I find out? *Plea for sympathy* :-) as an old guy I find myself empathising with Linuxchix--wherever do you go for basic help without feeling a fool or a tedious bore ... read what manual?? --Geoffrey GATCAATGAGGTGGACACCAGAGGCGGGGACTTGTAAATAACACTGGGCTGTAGGAGTGA -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
