[cups.general] cups not working: gentoo installation.

[Matt Hull]

did you check the log files?  might say where and how cups is failing.
mine did when i messed up the ppd file.

On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, David Weeks wrote:

> Hello.
>
> I've been trying to print to an HP Deskjet 500, throught /dev/lp0, with a variety of ppd's, nothing is working.
>
> I can cat files to /dev/lp0 and they "respond" the printer, with an ascii render of text.  But from KDE/X/GNU/Linux, I can't print.
>
> I went to linuxprinting.org, and it suggests the pcl3 driver, which I tried, and even set it to 150 dpi, but it only prints nonsense.  I tried three other suggestions from that site, but none work, and some abort without even getting to /dev/lp0.
>
> Huh.
>
> I'm running on Gentoo, kernel 2.6.11-rc3, and everything is recent on my image.  As shown above, this is a local printer, but I'm using ipp to access it, keeping with convention.
>
> Oh, and why aren't we using phpBB?
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