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
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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.
-**->
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Cheers,
Joost van der Lugt
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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
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