[OLUG] Printing

[Nathan Brown]

this is before anyone answered the previous one ....
I'm not really sure at all what to tell each program to print to.
Maybe that is my problem
When addes my printer it seems to be there but when i use it nothing
eveyrthing wants to print to an lpr but my return tells me it's at lp0


Nathan Brown wrote:

> Ok i went to the afore mentioned site and do not know what to download
> there is an incredible number of files there but i looked at the
> alternate help and it said this
>
>
> In Red Hat Linux 6.1, there are a few extra steps needed to get a
> parallel port printer to
> work. This step is no longer necessary under Red Hat Linux 6.2:
>
> Edit your /etc/conf.modules and add:
>
>              alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
>
>
> Then log in as root and run:
>
> modprobe lp
>
>
> When I ran the modprobe lp it took.  Or seemed like it took   But I
> don't know what it is that it did.
> My printer still does not work.  Does anyone know what is wrong here ?
>
> Thanks,
> Nate
>
>
> Marc Davis wrote:
>
>> Nathan Brown wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > For some reason the system does not detect my port lp0 I used
>> printtool to set it up.  I
>> > even placed lp0 in the location field and still does not work.
>>
>> > Nate
>>
>> This sounds an awful lot like the well-known problem in 6.1.  You
>> might
>> check out
>> http://ww
>> .redhat.com/support/docs/gotchas/6.1/gotchas-6.1-6.html#ss6.19
>>
>> The basic fix is pretty simple if, for some reason, it's happening
>> in
>> your 6.2.
>> You can tell by looking for the alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
>> line
>> in /etc/conf.modules  If it's not there, the fix is either to
>> download a
>> package or
>>
>> [Quote]
>>
>> Alternatively, you can add
>> alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
>> to your
>> /etc/conf.modules file.
>> Then run /sbin/rmmod lp, and start printtool.
>>
>> [End Quote]
>>
>> This worked for me in 6.1.
>>
>> --
>> Marc Davis
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>>         davis at revelation.unomaha.edu    [work]
>>
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