test with driver 0.2.0: some problems
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Hi,
started testing with the 0.2.0 driver but didn't work out that well. I did not succeed in getting anything printed out.
setup: RH 9.0, Gnome, printer configuration tool, gedit
Here's what I did:
I installed the new driver as before. I did not do anything special to uninstall the previous driver!
I removed the printer completely with the configuration tool and re-added it.
I tried printing several documents
1. one page email: printer not recognized in the email (Ximian 1.2) printing screen
2. a web page: printer not recognized in the print menu
3. printing the installed_packages.txt file: printer recognized and job shortly displayed in the printer queue, but in the end it was discarded and nothing was printed.
Reading again the doc's and found out that I did not add the custom device (/dev/null). Should have read it better the first time ;-).
Corrected the settings: one question arises here in the printer option tab: I cannot set the printer port and the device is still set to /dev/usb/lp0 allthough the custom device was added in the queue type tab.
Logged out, unplugged USB cable, restart
In the end the print job stays in the queue but is not printed!
Is there a special uninstallation needed of the old driver?
Are there anyother suggestion to what I can try or check?
I'll try again tomorrow.
hear you,
Tom.
Hi Tom,
As you noticed, special setup is needed with this driver. I talked to the linuxprinting.org folks and due to the nature of the interaction between the driver and the printer, this is the simplest I can get it at the moment. I'm investigating writing a CUPS driver instead, which might make setup easier, but for the moment, this will have to do.
Please try the following:
1. Make sure the driver is set to queue /dev/null
2. Make sure the driver options (not the queue) specifies the correct port /dev/usb/lp0 by default
3. If you have a slow system, try black-only. Color mode is really really slow at the moment, except on fast systems.
4. Save your settings
5. Unplug the printer from the outlet
6. Shut down the lpd service (/etc/init.d/lpd stop)
7. Plug in the printer, wait for it to stop making noise
8. Start the lpd service
9. Wait a few seconds
10. Print the printer test page from the GUI
If this doesn't work, try running "make testprn" from the source directory after unplugging and plugging back in the printer from the power outlet again.
Let me know what happens.
- Mark
BTW you don't need to do anything special to uninstall the previous driver. Just run "make install" from the src directory and make sure it copies all five (5) .xml files to the correct directories in foomatic before you run the printconf-gui tool.
- Mark
Hi,
finaly got it working. With installation of Red Hat the CUPS printing interface was installed. As you said that you were looking at writing a CUPS driver I came to the idea to install first another pinting interface, namely LPRng.
I did not change the printer / driver settings just used the printing interface switcher (to LPRng).
After this it worked fine: no lockup of multiple page files, no blocking of the printer, ...
So now I can continue with the testing!
Thanks,
Tom
Hi Tom,
So glad that it's working for you! Please let me know if you find any other problems during testing.
For me, the 0.2.1 driver has been working great for both black and color jobs!
- Mark