Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 09:36:15 +1000 From: Malcolm Fitzgerald <thats@notyourhomework.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD. ORG <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Help needed compiling printer source code Message-ID: <544660b49b4b30f3139c0fbebad337ae@notyourhomework.net> In-Reply-To: <20060425191942.P1100@www.pukruppa.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>
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> >> 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" as root I get a blank page malcolm
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