Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 14:59:31 -0800 From: Joost van der Lugt Message-ID: <20001201145931.D22934@suse.com> Subject: (forw) Re: [SLE] Printing problem after upgrade to 7.0 Cheers, Joost van der Lugt --------------------------------------------------------- SuSE Inc. Tel: +1-510-628-3380 ext:5073 580 Second St. Suite 210 Fax: +1-510-835-3381 Oakland, CA 94607 E-mail:jolugt@suse.com U.S.A http://www.suse.com --------------------------------------------------------- <strong>attached mail follows:</strong><hr noshade> Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 12:40:09 -0800 From: Joost van der Lugt Subject: Re: [SLE] Printing problem after upgrade to 7.0 Message-ID: <20001201124009.C22934@suse.com> You will find manuals here in all languages: On cd1 in the directory /docu you will find the complete suse handbook in psz, pdf and ascii form. The psz and pdf versions of the manual can be viewed from Windows, or from X with acroread or ghostview, or can be printed directly with lpr. The ascii chapters in /docu/ascii/suselxen/ can be read with 'less' from the console. E.g: less /cdrom/docu/ascii/suselxen/slxen-01.txt <p><p>* Doug McGarrett (dougmack@i-2000.com) [001201 10:56]: -**-I too had printer problems "out of the box." As per someone -**-on this list, I found the file that has the printer setup -**-info (I forget its name now) and deleted the whole file. Then -**-I went to YAST2 and set it up again, and for some reason it -**-now works properly. (It not only printed the test message, -**-but also an email. Before, it printed the test message, but -**-anything else came out as many, many pages of garbage.) -**-If my previous request for help is archived, the thread is -**-"frustrated." That's where the answer was posted. It was -**-near the end of the thread. (I also got sound to work -**-with some kind reader's assistance. Thanx to all who have -**-helped!) --doug -**- -**-English manuals do exist for SuSE, but I'm not sure how you -**-would get them in Italy. They're pretty decent, also. Maybe -**-they can be downloaded? -**- -**-At 12:32 PM 12/01/2000 +0100, you wrote: -**->Dear listmembers, -**-> -**->a couple of weeks ago I posted a request concerning my problems -**->of printing after upgrading to SuSE 7.0 (I would NEVER do it -**->again! how many troubles for nothing more!). I waited -**->before writing again to you, because I sent again a help request -**->to SuSE. Since I had no answer, I take again the liberty to ask -**->you if you can help me -- a computer without a printer is almost -**->useless! -**-> -**->As suggested by some kind listmembers, I installed again the -**->printer using Yast2. The "Hello wourld" page comes out -**->correctly. Then the pritner (a very common HPLj3) is -**->apparently installed correctly. But after that, what I get after -**->trying to print with -**-> -**->lpr -Pprinter1 moglie.txt -**-> -**->is no printout and this message: -**-> -**->lpr -Pprinter1 ~/moglie.txt -**->Dec 1 12:19:15 pentiumiii lpr printer1: remote host -**->pentiumiii.miarete: illegal ack code '$„@': Pipe rotta -**->Your print job has been sent to printer 'printer1', job 2, rank: -**->2nd. -**-> -**->"Pipe rotta" is the Italian for "broken pipe". -**-> -**->A lpq command outputs : -**-> -**->Local printer 'printer1' on pentiumiii.miarete: -**->Warning: queue is not active (no server present). -**-> Rank Owner Pr Job Host Files % -**->Form Size Time -**-> 1st guido X 1 pentiumiii /home/guido/moglie... -**->- 6.5K 12:09 -**-> 2nd guido X 2 pentiumiii /home/guido/moglie... -**->- 6.5K 12:19 -**-> -**->what on earth is happening? This "printer1" is the default name -**->given by Yast2. I did not change it because I have only one -**->printer, can call it with any name. But why "no server present"? -**->Should I delete all of the contents of the spool directory? Or -**->should I install everything from scratch? -**-> -**->I am very upset with SuSE. I think I will back up my files, -**->erase everything in the Linux partition and install Corel. I am -**->also sorry because, since I teach in an educational department, -**->I was thinking to start a big campaing for Open Source and so on -**->in Italian schools -- but how can I do it, if paid support -**->offered by the most popular Linux distribution in Italy is so -**->weak? Besides that, I tried to persuade the SuSE support to print -**->their manual in English if not in German -- their Italian is so -**->horrible that I often must translate it back to German in order -**->to understand it. -**-> -**->Best regards, and thanks anyway! -**->g. -**-> -**->------------------------------------------- -**->E-Mail: Guido Milanese -**->Homepage: http://fly.to/arsantiqua -**->01-Dec-00 - XFMail on Linux -**->+ + + + + + NON NOBIS DOMINE + + + + + + -**->------------------------------------------- -**-> -**->-- -**->To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com -**->For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com -**->Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq -**- -**- -**--- -**-To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com -**-For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com -**-Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq -**- Cheers, Joost van der Lugt --------------------------------------------------------- SuSE Inc. 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