Doug B wrote:
On Saturday 18 December 2004 09:32 pm, Terry Eck wrote:
Printer worked until today. Printer is HP Laserjet 1100A.
Since you have installed hpoj, have you run ptal-init and answered the questions? I believe you will need to do that to get the scanner working any way and it is the only way to get both printer and scanner. ptal must run as a service after it is setup (and I think that will be done during the ptal-init, but you might want to check).
Your referenced web site is where I got the information about hpoj. I did run ptal-init. I believe ptal was loaded when I rebooted.
I solved the problem by using cups to set up the printer. I read somewhere that i had to use the PTAL device to get things working and Yast didn't offer the PTAL device but cups did. Since using cups to set things up, all works as expected and survives reboot.
Maybe the mistake I made was to change the Parallel port from "Normal" to "ECP/EPP" in the BIOS. How is your Parallel port setup in you BIOS? I kept trying to setup the printer using Yast. I thought cups was a daemon to handle printing. I believe I'm using cups since I think that is the default under SuSE 9.2. How do you go about configuring the printer using cups instead of Yast? On one of the reboots I noticed something strange concerning one of the parport0 lines. It was showing strange numbers for the io=. This may be the cause of /dev/lp0 disappearing when I tried to use Yast to configure the printer. I assume the system on booting checks and generates all the /dev/files which explains why /dev/lp0 was correct before using Yast. I was able to restore my system by copying the system files from a backup partition. (thanks to doing an rsync each night). I will wait a while before I try installing hpoj again. Need to learn more. Linux is getting much more complex then under 1.2.13 of 10 years ago. Back then you had to recompile the kernel to get sound. I may have to wait for someone to build a hpoj*.rpm file for SuSE. Thanks Terry -- SuSE Linux 9.2 (i586) ---- 2.6.8-24.5-default --- Sun 12/19/04 16:30 4:30pm up 18:03, 3 users, load average: 0.16, 0.23, 0.18