On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 14:20 +1000, david walcroft wrote: > Craig White wrote: > > On Sun, 2007-12-16 at 20:51 -0700, Craig White wrote: > > > >> On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 13:46 +1000, david walcroft wrote: > >> > > > > > >> ---- > >> Cool... > >> > >> let's see if you can do printing now... > >> > >> sudo /sbin/service cups restart > >> > >> then from GUI > >> > >> Administration => Printing > >> > >> see if you can add your printer and print a test page now > >> > >> we'll come back to the packages later > >> > > ---- > > David... > > waiting for a response here... > > > > can you open Administration => Printing ? > > can you add your printer ? > > can you print a test page ? > > > > if not...please provide output of command... > > > > sudo ls /etc/cups/ > > > > Craig > > > > > I now have a printer working - of sorts - it is printing the test page > on to several papers with a part of the test on each. ---- sounds like you just picked some option wrong...when you select the printer, there might be a choice of drivers to use and you should always use the recommended driver (and it's usually indicated, which driver is recommended). I think you are there - just for tweaking. I'm heading to bed now, I think you're fixed up - see my other post about replacing the video packages that we removed...the dependency that was hanging us up is already installed so the rest should install now. Craig
