Mike, I had a similar problem with my system, and it seemed to have something to do with the HP daemon. Here's what I had to do to fix it. First, un-install the driver for your printer (rpm -e). For me, it was the HPOJ driver for an HP LJ1200. Reboot. When the system comes up, attempt to install the printer via cups. It should prompt you for the disk. After that, I was able to print fine. Note that when I attempted to install a fax print driver, it screwed things up again and I had to go through the uninstall/reboot/install process again. Good luck! -- Michael White "To protect people from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools." -Herbert Spencer, 1891 On Saturday 10 July 2004 01:10 pm, Mike Roy wrote:
Hello everyone: I'm using SuSE 9.1 64-bit mode on an AMD Athlon 64 on an Asus K8V motherboard. Recently I ran Memtest86 only to discover a number of errors (more than 119,000 after 7 hours). I took the machine back to the store and they installed a newer BIOS. This changes seems to have cleared up a lot of problems. Running Memtest86 again resulted in ZERO ERRORS after more than four hours. In reviewing the BIOS, I found that the
parallel port address was DISABLED
After I ENABLED it, the setting were the same as under the old BIOS:
address 378
mode NORMAL
IRQ IRQ7
Under the old BIOS, my printer, using CUPS, worked OK under both WordPerfect and OpenOffice. Now, however, I can't seem to configure the printer. When I attempt to install either CUPS or LPRng, I get a message:
no parallel device (/dev/lp?) found. It seems that your parallel port is not properly configured.
In checking the SuSE 9.1 Administration Guide, it shows that both printing programs [ CUPS and LPRng ] require
footmatic-filters
however, a search under YAST for this package results in
NO RESULTS
Could this be causing the failure to properly configure the printer? Don't forget, the printer worked fine under CUPS before the BIOS update and also works properly on my other machine meaning that the printer and cable are both OK. HELP!!!! Mike