The Tuesday 2005-03-01 at 21:27 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:
What is wrong?
Cups, in "http://localhost:631/printers/lp", says:
Description: default configuration Location: local Printer State: stopped, accepting jobs. "Unable to open parallel port device file "/dev/lp0": Permission denied" <---- Device URI: parallel:/dev/lp0
Permission denied? What? Printer is defined "crw-rw---- root lp", the same as the other ports. Should it be different?
A minute after sending that, it occurred to me to try another "printer", like lpg (for gimp driver) instead of lp in cups. I think it worked. Then I happened to click the "start" button in the "http://localhost:631/printers" page, "lp" entry - and it did start! It seems the local cold is not only freezing my fingers, but my neurones as well O:-) What I still don't understand is how the device "/dev/lp0" came to be deleted, nor why cups, even after a restart, did not recognize the printer was there again an insisted in not printing. :-O -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson