On Saturday 22 October 2005 09:46, michael norman wrote:
Mike, Is this a parallel port printer? If so, did you happen to take the time to read a bit of news about parallel printers after 10 installed? Probably not, but it should still be on the CD/DVD and may help to enlighten you on this. I'm sorry, I don't remember exactly what it said, but did mention problems with some parallel port printers.
I have a HP960C myself attached via the parallel port and it failed to work after install. Everything was set correctly in YaST2, but until I turned both the printer & computer off, it wouldn't print. After rebooting and all reintialized, everything worked.
Don't know if that might be your problem, that things need to reset, just thought I would mention those two.
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Lee
Yes it is a parallel port printer. I haven't seen the news, I'll look it up, is it in the release notes ?
It will print a test page but will not print from Abiword or Open Office.
I'll try switching off and restarting as well.
Mike
Answering my own question this is from Release Notes : Using Parallel Port Printers Reboot may be required after setting up a parallel port printer with YaST. If printing does not work when a parallel port printer was set up with YaST, reboot then do not run the YaST printer setup for testing. Only parallel port printers in ECP DMA mode are affected. Doesn't help my problem, nor did swithching off and restarting, but at least Kword will open and print Abiword docs. Anybody else still have one of these printers and using it with SUSE 10 ? Mike