Help needed compiling printer source code
Malcolm Fitzgerald
thats at notyourhomework.net
Tue Apr 25 23:36:17 UTC 2006
>
>> I've set up a printer.
>>
>> location: lpt0
>> Printer State: idle, accepting jobs
>> device URI: parallel:/dev/lpt0
>>
>> Printing the test page does not work, the job is aborted with error:
>> client-error-not-possible
> The most probable reason for this is that some user permissions are
> set incorrectly. We have to analyze this step by step.
> 1) Try to print directly from the command line:
> # printf "Hello World \f" > /dev/lpt0
> If your printer is connected correctly to your parallel port,
> *something* should be printed out.
as user I get "cannot create /dev/lpt0: Permission denied"
as root I get a blank page
malcolm
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