Help... can I use this printer with YDL 2.2?

[David Chart]

On Sat, 2002-05-04 at 11:50, Simon White wrote:
> 02-May-02 at 19:54, Sean O. Denney (sdenney@cise.ufl.edu) wrote :
> > First off, what is CUPS and how does it relate to YDL?  Second of all,
> > can the old lpd print handler be put back into YDL 2.x, or am I stuck
> > with what's there?
> 
> CUPS is a printer driver interface, or a layer between Linux and your
> printer, something like that. I have seen it mentioned on the list a
> number of times. You have to install it (it's a package) and then
> configure it for your printer. Seems like the best way to go for YDL.
> 

Word of warning: When I installed CUPS (on YDL 2.1), it broke my system
badly, causing a complete system freeze on startup and requiring a hard
reboot. It is possible I did something wrong, but I just followed their
instructions. If you try it and get the same problem, go into
interactive startup, don't activate cups, and then, as root, take it out
of the startup list. That fixed things for me.

Of course, I don't have printing working at the moment...

-- 
David Chart