On Sunday 19 December 2004 05:08 pm, Terry Eck wrote:
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 don't think this was your mistake, but I'm not currently using a parallel port so I can't know for sure. All my printers are usb. I would set it to however you had it before you installed hpoj. I believe the mistake was trying to use /dev/lp0 with PTAL. hpoj will work with parallel printers (or at least it looks like it will)
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?
I fought this battle off and on for almost a year (that may prove patience but doesn't say much for being smart!). As far as I can tell, if you don't run PTAL (from hpoj) then you can configure printer to /dev/lp0 but your scanner won't be found. If you install hpoj and use PTAL, you shouldn't use the regular print device (like /dev/lp0 or /dev/usb0). That seems to cause problems. If you use PTAL (so you can scan), you need to set up your printer using the PTAL device created when you run ptal-init. Yast doesn't handle this (at least not in 9.1 which is the version I have my printer hung on). To use cups, you first need to create a user/password with lppasswd (man lppasswd for details -- that's for you Patrick ;) --) then point your browser to localhost:631 to bring up the cups interface. Go to manage printers > add printer. The important part here is selecting PTAL in the device screen (so make sure you have it installed, setup, and running).
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
By this I assume you mean you no longer have hpoj installed and ptal is not running. Suse comes with hpoj, by the way, they just don't call it that. Suse calls it hp-officejet. Search for it in yast and install that way. (Searching for hpoj will only find it if you check the 'Search in > Provides' checkbox) If the install hpoj > run ptal-init > setup printer in cups doesn't work for you, you can just disable ptal and use yast to setup the printer. If you are gui oriented, you can disable/enable ptal in yast > system > runlevel editor. Good luck.... but most of all, have fun Doug