Hi all, I have lil problem with my printer, it's an oldie HP 610c.
I installed it on my Slackware 10.0 workstation via cups in webbrowser
(localhost:631 thingy) this printer is supported by cups, I also have all
needed modules running in the kernel (2.4.x) and cool every thing is
almost fine. The Printer is printg smoothly but only under terminal in via
f.e. "cat file.txt > /dev/lp0" huh. So what I'm doing wrong ? I cant print
under various X apps like OpenOffice, KOffice, Gedit, FireFox etc. I is
not printing test pages to. Please help me, what can I do with this issue ?
Thanks in advance.

Cheers, LinuxLover
--
"World domination. Fast." (Linus Torvalds)

LinuxLover wrote:
> Hi all, I have lil problem with my printer, it's an oldie HP 610c.
> I installed it on my Slackware 10.0 workstation via cups in webbrowser
> (localhost:631 thingy) this printer is supported by cups, I also have all
> needed modules running in the kernel (2.4.x) and cool every thing is
> almost fine. The Printer is printg smoothly but only under terminal in via
> f.e. "cat file.txt > /dev/lp0" huh. So what I'm doing wrong ? I cant print
> under various X apps like OpenOffice, KOffice, Gedit, FireFox etc. I is
> not printing test pages to. Please help me, what can I do with this issue ?
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Cheers, LinuxLover
I had a similar problem and after asking here, I was told that I probably had
both lpr and cups installed. By the way; that is what the default install installs.
I used package manager to remove both lpr and cups. Rebooted and then installed
cups only. I now have my HP 920c printer doing it's thing properly in all the
places it should.

--
Leo in Canada:
They said "everyone uses microsoft" and so like the lemmings they marched into
the sea.
< running Linux >

while following Leo's advise do this too before rebooting

open your favorite text editor and edit /etc/rc.d/rc.modules and
uncomment the two following lines:

/sbin/modprobe parport_pc

/sbin/modprobe lp

Dnia Thu, 17 Mar 2005 19:41:41 -0600, Cheapskate napisa³(a):

> while following Leo's advise do this too before rebooting
>
> open your favorite text editor and edit /etc/rc.d/rc.modules and
> uncomment the two following lines:
>
> /sbin/modprobe parport_pc
>
> /sbin/modprobe lp

I have those modules loaded already look,
this is in lsmod for printer:

lp 6692 0
parport_pc 15588 1
parport 24936 1 [lp parport_pc]

Cheers, LinuxLover

--
"World domination. Fast." (Linus Torvalds)

> I had a similar problem and after asking here, I was told that I probably had
> both lpr and cups installed. By the way; that is what the default install installs.
> I used package manager to remove both lpr and cups. Rebooted and then installed
> cups only. I now have my HP 920c printer doing it's thing properly in all the
> places it should.

Thx I'm going to try this.

Cheers, LinuxLover

--
"World domination. Fast." (Linus Torvalds)

LinuxLover wrote:

>Hi all, I have lil problem with my printer, it's an oldie HP 610c.
>I installed it on my Slackware 10.0 workstation via cups in webbrowser
>(localhost:631 thingy) this printer is supported by cups, I also have all
>needed modules running in the kernel (2.4.x) and cool every thing is
>almost fine. The Printer is printg smoothly but only under terminal in via
>f.e. "cat file.txt > /dev/lp0" huh. So what I'm doing wrong ? I cant print
>under various X apps like OpenOffice, KOffice, Gedit, FireFox etc. I is
>not printing test pages to. Please help me, what can I do with this issue ?
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Cheers, LinuxLover
>
>
I'm on my windoz machine at the moment or I'd send you my notes on
installing printers and converting lprng to cups. But , did you change
the lprng linkage ?
Did you include the printer in the /etc/modconf? (not sure if this is
needed as I can't look from here).
Ron

Due to some strange behaviour of uncle Google, I am not
replying to the original post, but let it be anyway.

This is just a guess but I would probably check that you
have the following packages from the `ap' series installed:
espgs, gimp-print, hpijs, gnu-gs-fonts.

Mikhail