Re: Difficulty in printing

Thank you for the suggestions.
It just happened that I found the Printing-Howto
file, which led me to verify the BIOS settings
for Plug-and-Play, one of those architectural 
disasters that plague our lives.
I changed the 'Peripherals control'
in the BIOS from 'Auto' to 'Enable', and now the
printer works fine.
I only cannot understand why my computer suddenly
stopped printing without my touching the BIOS.
Fortunately, there is a reason for everything, and
this lesson I will never forget.
Mario Miyojim


> Message: 3
> Date: Wed, 07 May 2003 16:23:58 -0700
> From: "Taylor, ForrestX" <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Printing suppressed
> Reply-To: [email protected]
> 
> Mario Miyojim wrote:
> > 
> > Suddenly, my Seawolf platform cannot send a signal
> > to the parallel port (/dev/lp0). My printer used
> > to work fine locally from my Linux machine.
> > Now it only prints from a Windows 98 machine.
> > 
> > I tried through the 'printtool', and directly with
> > lpr and cat. Everything appears to be correctly
> > done by the OS, but the printer does not print
> > anything, not even garbage. lpq informs that the
> > spool is empty, printtool in test mode informs
> that
> > the print daemon was restarted and that a file has
> > been sent to the printer, but nothing is actually
> > printed. It is very frustrating.
> 
> Did you make sure that you set it to the correct
> driver?  Did you check 
> the Parallel port setting in the BIOS?  Did you
> update any rpms recently 
> (especially LPRng)?
> 
> Forrest
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