Printing Problem
Andrew Gould
andrewgould at yahoo.com
Fri Oct 6 14:13:18 PDT 2006
--- Karl Agee <kdagee2 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> uname -a
> FreeBSD enterprise.myhome.westell.com 6.2-PRERELEASE
> FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE #4: Mon Oct 2 08:40:06 PDT
> 2006
>
root at enterprise.myhome.westell.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC.20060916
> i386
>
> I cannot print from some applications, namely xpdf
> and
> evince. I am trying to print pdf's from these as
> printing in adobe reader 7 is disabled. I have cups
> installed and running and I can
> print from firefox and openoffice.org.
>
> In both xpdf and evince, the print dialog gives me a
> prompt for a printing command, not a printer to
> choose. This is a brother laser which is supported.
>
> This is a usb printer, lpstat shows:
>
> lpstat -p -d
> printer Brother_Laser is idle. enabled since Jan 01
> 00:00
> system default destination: Brother_Laser
>
> /var/log/messages shows:
>
> Oct 6 08:45:56 enterprise lpd[11501]: /dev/lp: No
> such file or directory
>
> anything I can do to get printing in these apps to
> work?
>
Did you remember to move or delete the lp* files from
/usr/bin/ so that they don't conflict with the cups
versions in /usr/local/bin/ ?
Andrew L. Gould
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