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Curt

Hi! I am trying out Slitaz again. I am determined to find a small, light, fast Linux, and I like the general look of Slitaz. I just need to figure out how to get my stuff working.

And first on the list is to get my printer working. My printer is a Hewlett Packard LaserJet 5000. It's an old printer that I bought brand new (with the cool duplexer) back in 1997 if I remember correctly, and it has been my workhorse for these 12 years. I love this printer. But I am having trouble getting it to connect. More specifically, when I boot Slitaz, CUPS can't find the parallel port.

I noticed that when I boot Puppy Linux and install CUPS, I can install the printer on the parallel printer port #1. But if I install Scribus before I install CUPS, then I can't see the parallel printer port #1 in the list of devices in CUPS.

In Slitaz, I install CUPS first, but I never see the parallel printer port.

So does anyone have any ideas what I am doing wrong or what I need to do? Do you need any additional information?

I am running a Celeron 1.7GHz processor with 384MB of RAM, and no hard drive. I am booting from the Slitaz or Puppy Linux Live CD.

Thanks for your help.

cavalier911

My experience installing a Deskjet 540 to SliTaz 2.0

All xterm commands are done as root user.

The kernel modules for the parallel port must be loaded at bootup.

Verify parallel port modules are loaded

lsmod | grep par

No modules are loaded so lets go to:

Menu/System Tools/Control Box/Initialization tab

Add the following to Load Modules: lp parport parport_pc

Click the Change button, exit, shutdown,printer attached,turned on,reboot

Verify parallel port modules are loaded

lsmod | grep par

parport_pc 22292 1

parport 29012 2 parport_pc,lp

Verify printer is recognized by kernel

dmesg | grep -i printer

parport0: Printer, HEWLETT-PACKARD DESKJET 540

cat /proc/sys/dev/parport/parport*/autoprobe*

CLASS:PRINTER;

MODEL:DESKJET 540;

MANUFACTURER:HEWLETT-PACKARD;

DESCRIPTION:Hewlett-Packard DeskJet 540;

COMMAND SET:MLC,PCL,PML;

The printer is recognized but no Cups LPT# Device.

E [13/Jan/2010:05:37:46 +0000] [Job 4] Unable to open device file "/dev/lp0": Permission denied

E [13/Jan/2010:05:37:46 +0000] PID 1594 (/usr/lib/cups/backend/parallel) stopped with status 1!

So parallel doesn't have proper permissions to access /dev/lp0

chmod 0700 /usr/lib/cups/backend/parallel

reboot

lpinfo -v

network socket

network http

network ipp

network lpd

direct parallel:/dev/lp0

direct scsi

Cups Printer Setup Device: LPT #1

Totoetsasoeur

Hi,
I am faced to the same problem as Curt:

I have a printer connected to parallel port, but no parallel port is shown on cups interface.

As suggested by cavalier911, I checked the following:

a) Are parallel modules loaded? => yes


root@slitaz:# lsmod | grep par
parport_pc             21828  1 
parport                27904  2 parport_pc,lp
root@slitaz:#

Here are the message during booting:


root@slitaz:/# dmesg | grep parport   
parport_pc 00:06: reported by Plug and Play ACPI
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7 [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
parport0: Legacy device
lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
root@slitaz:#

The lpinfo returns:


root@slitaz:# lpinfo -v
network socket
network lpd
network ipp
network http
direct scsi
root@slitaz:#

Just to make sure that users are in lp group:


root@slitaz:# cat /etc/group | grep lp
lp:x:10:tux,root
root@slitaz:#

Does anyone know what should I do in order to make parallel port available to cups?

Thanks for helping.
Stephane

mojo

Stephane

Look again

The lpinfo returns:

root@slitaz:# lpinfo -v
network socket
network lpd
network ipp
network http
direct scsi
root@slitaz:#

there is no

direct parallel:/dev/lp0

to correct

Follow cavalier911 instructions from

chmod 0700 /usr/lib/cups/backend/parallel

to the end.

Totoetsasoeur

Hi mojo,
Thanks for pointing this out.

I did the following:


root@slitaz:# chmod 0700 /usr/lib/cups/backend/parallel

root@slitaz:# lpinfo -v
network socket
direct parallel:/dev/lp0
network lpd
network ipp
network http
direct scsi
network beh
root@slitaz:#

As you can see, direct parallel:/dev/lp0 is here. :-)

But it was not enough!!! I needed to install foomatic:


root@slitaz:# tazpkg get-install foomatic-filters
root@slitaz:# tazpkg get-install foomatic-db
root@slitaz:# tazpkg get-install foomatic-db-engine

And now I (root AND tux) can print to my printer from terminal. :))


root@slitaz:# lpr -P brother_hl720 toto.txt
tux@slitaz:# lpr -P brother_hl720 toto.txt

However printing from terminal is fine, what about any GUI application?
I cannot select the printer from any GUI application.
Do you know by any chance what has to be done in order to access this printer from GUI application?

Thanks for helping.
Stephane

mojo

Bravo Stephane

I can't say what the issue would be if your running cooking.

Cooking from november 2009 has no print support in firefox-shiretoko according to this post.

http://forum.slitaz.org/index.php/discussion/comment/520/#Comment_520

But on full install stable slitaz-2.0 the only program I changed for print support was epdfview-cups to replace epdfview.

Choose File/Print or ctrl+P in Opera,Minefield,Leafpad,Geany,epdfview the same Print dialog box opens.
My printer's name on Destination tab print range,copies.Options tab with paper size and orientation.Printer program tab with nothing filled in and print,cancel,apply buttons on the bottom.

Totoetsasoeur

Hi,

Actually I have only "Print to a file" in the Destination tab print. My printer's name is not listed in this tab. It happens with leafpad and epdfview as well.

As far this is quite "off topic", I will create a new discussion about this issue I am faced to.

Once again thank you for your help.
Stephane

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