[Gnumed-devel] Printer Q for all U Linux Gurus

[Richard Terry]

Still mucking round with Arch - am up to getting the printer going:

Problem:no noise from the printer which works in the windows partition on the 
same machine.

At the risk of being told RTFM I enclose more info below:

I've installed footmatic/ghostscript/cups/downloaded the ppd files, 
started /etc/rc.d/cups start

The kernel is 2.6.3  I compiled from scratch and have gleaned the following 
from my system:

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modules loaded
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address@hidden richard]# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
lp                          8484    0
parport_pc           19708  2
parport                22880  2     lp,parport_pc
8139too              20608   0

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boot up messages
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Feb 25 11:30:57 Surgery2 kernel: lp0: using parport0 (polling).
Feb 25 13:32:58 Surgery2 kernel: parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) 
[PCSPP(,...)]

Feb 25 08:47:03 Surgery2 kernel: parport1: PC-style at 0xc400 (0xc800) 
[PCSPP(,...)]
Feb 25 08:47:03 Surgery2 kernel: lp1: using parport1 (polling).

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These seem to be in /dev
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address@hidden dev]# ls -al lp*


lr-xr-xr-x  1 root root 10 Feb 26 18:42 lp0 -> printers/0
lr-xr-xr-x  1 root root 10 Feb 26 18:42 lp1 -> printers/1

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CUPS ADMIN
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running lynx http://localhost:631/

Default Destination: Canon_Plain

   Canon_Plain CANON BJC 4300 - CUPS+Gimp-Print v4.2.6-rc2
   Description:
   Location: Surgery2
   Printer State: idle, accepting jobs.
   Device URI: parallel:/dev/lp0

Sending test page and checking jobs:

Test Page       root    15k      cancelled at
Thu Feb 26 18:25:00 2004

Any help in getting an output more than appreciated.

Great distro despite the learning curve for an non-it educated person such as 
myself.

Regards and thanks in anticipation

Richard