Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 23:33:27 +0200 (CEST) From: "P.U.Kruppa" <root@pukruppa.de> To: Malcolm Fitzgerald <thats@notyourhomework.net> Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD. ORG" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Help needed compiling printer source code Message-ID: <20060426194552.M1100@www.pukruppa.net> In-Reply-To: <544660b49b4b30f3139c0fbebad337ae@notyourhomework.net> References: <658be17fbe25500c985c5b8fc35ffc95@notyourhomework.net> <20060423091441.M1100@www.pukruppa.net> <499dd1ce422438ea0c0ac99b1f41ce8b@notyourhomework.net> <20060423133640.D1100@www.pukruppa.net> <20060423140319.S1100@www.pukruppa.net> <1209639b8bc7faaeb76ebf0932051131@notyourhomework.net> <20060425191942.P1100@www.pukruppa.net> <544660b49b4b30f3139c0fbebad337ae@notyourhomework.net>
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On Wed, 26 Apr 2006, Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote:
>>
>>> I've set up a printer.
>>>
>>> location: lpt0
>>> Printer State: idle, accepting jobs
>>> device URI: parallel:/dev/lpt0
>>>
>>> Printing the test page does not work, the job is aborted with error:
>>> client-error-not-possible
>> The most probable reason for this is that some user permissions are set
>> incorrectly. We have to analyze this step by step.
>> 1) Try to print directly from the command line:
>> # printf "Hello World \f" > /dev/lpt0
>> If your printer is connected correctly to your parallel port,
>> *something* should be printed out.
>
> as user I get "cannot create /dev/lpt0: Permission denied"
That is o.k.. You should try to setup your printer as root first
anyway: you always can solve problems with lower user permissions
later on.
> as root I get a blank page
So at least your printer can print the form feed character "\f"
:-)
As Robert Huff suggested in his mail one reason might be wrong
permissions of your spooler directory.
2) If you haven't set it otherwise it should be found at
/var/spool/cups
3) # cd /var/spool/
# ls -l
should show this
drwx--x--- 3 root daemon 1536 26 Apr 19:44 cups
4) Inside /var/spool/cups you should find some files with
names like
c00001
c00002
c00003
and so on, each representing one print job.
Regards,
Uli.
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