Subject: Re: Printing woes (lpd causes kernal panic - machine check)
From: Hollis R Blanchard (hollis+@andrew.cmu.edu)
Date: Fri Dec 01 2000 - 12:44:56 MST
On Fri, 1 Dec 2000, Stephen Paullada wrote:
>
> I used printtool and set up an Epson Stylus 600 on ttyS1. /var/log/dmesg
> had the following line: "tty01 at 0xf3013000 (irq = 16) is a Z8530 ESCC,
> port = printer" , hence my mistaken belief that the port was tty01.
Yep, it's misleading.
> lpd no longer crashes, but when trying to print anything, all I get is a
> series of dots, which stops mid page and weirds out the printer. Any
> suggestions?
Not really... you've met the prerequisites for printing, now you just need
to play around with printtool and read some Printing HOWTO's and get it
going. :)
Maybe you could try CUPS (www.cups.org) - it sounds good but I've never
tried it.
-Hollis
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