Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1555 mails)

[Jim Sabatke <jsabatke@xxxxxxxxx>]

I feel a bit foolish about this one.  I have a new box that doesn't have
a parallel port for my HP LaserJet 1200.  I bought a USB to parallel
port cable, and with an enormous amount of experimentation, Googling and
guessing, actually had it working.

Then I installed the MPlayer plug-ins for Mozilla and the install
unloaded almost all of my KDE4 environment.  When I tried to reload
KDE4, the box was very unstable and extremely unresponsive.

I then did a re-install of SuSE 11.1.  I had backed up my repo list, so
I got my system back to where it should be, with MPlayer stuff installed
easily.  However, I forgot to save the printer configuration files and
have not been able to get the HP printer back.  I can cat a file to
/dev/usb/lp0 and it does print, but programs will not print to the
printer and the Yast printer setup is ridiculously hard to use.  I'm
also using TurboPrint 2.10.1 and it won't properly setup the printer
either.  Auto detection does not work with any program I've tried,
include CUPS manager and the KDE printer setup program.

To the best of my recollection, the printer setup was something like
"tpu://epson/dev/usb/lp0" (I know, but "epson" worked), but I can't come
up with the exact string to make it all work.

Any advice out there?

TIA,

Jim
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