Am Do, den 19.02.2004 schrieb Rick Stevens um 20:51: > Mario St-Gelais wrote: > > I started not so long ago with Linux. Initially, I installed SUSE Linux > > and with some pain was able to install my HP printer. > > > > Then I switched to Fedora and I haven't been able to make that damn > > printer puke some printed stuff. I followed all instructions as per > > http://www.linuxprinting.org/ without success. When I do "cat > > sihp1000.img > /dev/usb/lp0" the printer burps out some noise indicating > > I guess that the driver is being loaded buy yet it won't print. Looking > > at log files I get all kind of messages according to flavor of the day I > > guess : "paper tray empty" or "printer faults". But I damn know it is > > not empty. > > > > What am I gonna do switch back to SUSE?? > > Try opening the image in gimp or another image viewer ("RedHat > icon->Graphics->The gimp" or "->More Graphics Applications->Image > Viewer") and print from there? Spewing an image directly to the printer > port is guaranteed NOT to work (it wouldn't in Windows or any other > OS to my knowledge...it's gotta go through some software driver > somehow). sihp1000.img is no graphics image! See http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=HP-LaserJet_1000 Alexander -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG key 1024D/ED695653 1999-07-13 Fedora GNU/Linux Core 1 (Yarrow) on Athlon CPU kernel 2.4.22-1.2166.nptl Sirendipity 21:01:30 up 5 days, 40 users, load average: 1.64, 1.26, [ ÎÎÏÎÎ Ï'ÎÏÏÎÎ - gnothi seauton ]
