Printer stopped working
My printer no longer prints. I booted into windows and it works there. I tried reloading cups, drivers and libs. I tried to create a new queue, but yast gets an error that it can't communicate with the printer. I haven't made any printer changes lately. The only change to my system is that I did an MTA setup (which also doesn't work, but another story for a different time). Print jobs just hang in the queue until cancelled. Any ideas? -- Jim Sabatke Hire Me!! - See my resume at http://my.execpc.com/~jsabatke Do not meddle in the affairs of Dragons, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup.
Jim Sabatke wrote:
My printer no longer prints. I booted into windows and it works there. I tried reloading cups, drivers and libs. I tried to create a new queue, but yast gets an error that it can't communicate with the printer. I haven't made any printer changes lately.
The only change to my system is that I did an MTA setup (which also doesn't work, but another story for a different time).
Print jobs just hang in the queue until cancelled.
Any ideas?
Duh!!! SuSE 9.0 Pro -- Jim Sabatke Hire Me!! - See my resume at http://my.execpc.com/~jsabatke Do not meddle in the affairs of Dragons, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup.
Jim Sabatke wrote:
Jim Sabatke wrote:
My printer no longer prints. I booted into windows and it works there.
SuSE 9.0 Pro OK, I kept reloading and clearing the printer setup. I started getting the following errors: cups(File)DoRequest error: client-error-not-possible lpr: unable to print file: server-error-not-accepting-jobs No parallel devices (/dev/lp?) found. It seems that your parallel port is not properly configured. I found the parallel port setup in the SuSE help browser and modified /etc/modules.conf to recognize the port lp0. Then the printer configuration would load and save. However, the printer still does not print (and it does from windows). Files go into the queue and disappear, but no output. Further, I can't think of anything I did that would have changed the parallel port setup. Any ideas of what is going on here? Thanks, -- Jim Sabatke Hire Me!! - See my resume at http://my.execpc.com/~jsabatke Do not meddle in the affairs of Dragons, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup.
The Friday 2004-04-23 at 21:19 -0700, Jim Sabatke wrote:
print (and it does from windows). Files go into the queue and disappear, but no output. Further, I can't think of anything I did that would have changed the parallel port setup.
Did you change/add/removed any card? Anything modified in the bios setup? Did you look at the kernel log? -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
Jim Sabatke wrote:
Jim Sabatke wrote:
Jim Sabatke wrote:
My printer no longer prints. I booted into windows and it works there.
SuSE 9.0 Pro
OK, I kept reloading and clearing the printer setup. I started getting the following errors:
cups(File)DoRequest error: client-error-not-possible
lpr: unable to print file: server-error-not-accepting-jobs
No parallel devices (/dev/lp?) found. It seems that your parallel port is not properly configured.
I found the parallel port setup in the SuSE help browser and modified /etc/modules.conf to recognize the port lp0. Then the printer configuration would load and save. However, the printer still does not print (and it does from windows). Files go into the queue and disappear, but no output. Further, I can't think of anything I did that would have changed the parallel port setup.
Any ideas of what is going on here?
Thanks,
Found the fix. I had to set manually set the parallel port in BIOS rather than auto. I don't know what changed, I haven't been in BIOS for ages. But it's working now! -- Jim Sabatke Hire Me!! - See my resume at http://my.execpc.com/~jsabatke Do not meddle in the affairs of Dragons, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup.
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