more CUPS ?'s

[Aurel Wisse]

Cynthia,

I just found the "mpage" program which, for my needs,
completely eliminates the need for using the PPD file
for my PostScript printer.

Pipe the output of mpage directly to the printer. I
worte a small "print" shell script.

Try "man mpage".

Aurel

P.S.: This is mostly useful for printing from the
command line. You might have to write a shell script
for a gui (kde, gnome) setup to use mpage.

--- Cynthia Croy <clc2@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> 
> My attempts to print have not yet yielded any
> successes. If anyone has
> any suggestions, I would appreciate them very much.
> 
> I downloaded the CUPS binary from the YDL site,
> thinking I might have
> better luck if I reduced the number of steps by not
> having to compile
> source code. I keep getting a connection refused
> message. It happens
> both from the web based and command line interfaces.
> Things I've done so
> far:
> 
> I stopped the lpr service.
> I noticed that both cups and local had S99 in the
> rc3.d file, so I
> changed cups to S98.
> I edited the cupsd.conf file as described in the
> software administrators
> manual under troubleshooting (I Can't Do
> Administration Tasks from
> Another Machine!).
> I added localhost:631 to the listen section of the
> cupsd.conf file. I
> also uncommented Port 631 in this section. I also
> set HostNameLookups to
> On.
> 
> None of these made any difference.
> 
> Other possible symptoms of my problem:
> 
> Whenever I restart cups, stopping cups returns
> failed, and starting
> cupsd returns OK. I found cups startup succeeded in
> the startup output
> both at startup and in /var/log/messages.
> 
> What was in the /var/log/cups/error_log. It says:
> Listening to 0:631
> Listening to 7f000001:631
> Configured for up to 100 clients
> LoadPPDs: Read "/etc/cups/ppds.dat", 53 PPDs...
> LoadPPDs: No new or changed PPDs...
> StartListening: Unable to bind socket - Address
> already in use.
> 
> I'm wondering if this last line could be my problem.
> "Address already in
> use" sounds like something that would cause
> connection refused problems.
> One of the first things I did was download (and
> compile and install) the
> source code from rawhide (thanks for the suggestion
> Kaoru). As I recall,
> I had the same connection refused message with that
> one, but I'm
> wondering if the message with the new install could
> be from leftovers
> from the first install. I'm not sure how to go about
> removing them
> though, since the KDE package manager only shows the
> binary package.
> 
> Does anyone else have an Apple Postscript Level 1
> printer working? I got
> the Apple PPD from Adobe's site. I also have
> ppd-o-matic files from
> linuxprinting (although they didn't have one
> specifically for my
> printer). Linuxprinting says that these have
> translators to allow
> applications that don't recognize Postscript Level 1
> to print to level 1
> printers. Which applications would need this? Is
> this even necessary
> with the driver from Apple? Also, these files have a
> .cgi extension. I'm
> not familiar with that format. Do I have to run them
> through another
> application to make them work?
> 
> Other information that may be necessary:
> 
> YDL 2.2 install
> PowerBase 180 with Powerlogix G3 card
> Apple Laserwriter Select 310 connected through
> serial port
> 
> Thanks everyone,
> 
> Cindy
> 
> 
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> http://lists.linuxppc.org/
> 


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