Subject: Re: suse printer config issue
From: Dee McKinney (deem@wdm.com)
Date: Fri Oct 19 2001 - 10:41:21 AKDT
Graham Siebe <gsiebe@alaskalife.net> wrote:
>
> I have suse 6.2 set up tat is otherwise working. I just hooked it up to
> my printer (an ancient Epsons stylus color IIs) ran YaST2 (the suse
> configuration tool) set up the printer, printed a test page. The
> problem is that I got another test page, and another, and another.......
> I have rebooted, tried to kill the processes that look like they have
> something to do with the printer, and haven't been able to fix it. How
> do I get it to sto printing? (if it helps the test page appears to be a
> post script page)
>
YaST2 in 6.2 was less than perfect. YaST1 should set it up OK.
You need to overwrite your config that is in place though.
I nice x-window app that comes with SuSE is tixlpq. If you load
that up then you can purge the que. Of course lpq works from the (root)
command line also.
Printing is needed but it's a bear sometimes.
See http://www.wdm.com/LDP/HOWTO/Printing-Usage-HOWTO.html
for the LDP HOWTO on the usual commands needed.
See http://www.wdm.com/LDP/HOWTO/Printing-HOWTO/index.html
for setting up printing under Linux.
If you want to upgrade your box, bring it by and I'll be happy to help.
/Dee
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