Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:13:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Andrew Gould <andrewgould@yahoo.com> To: Karl Agee <kdagee2@yahoo.com>, freebsd-questions <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Printing Problem Message-ID: <20061006211317.17348.qmail@web35313.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20061006185754.82775.qmail@web31507.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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--- Karl Agee <kdagee2@yahoo.com> wrote: > uname -a > FreeBSD enterprise.myhome.westell.com 6.2-PRERELEASE > FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE #4: Mon Oct 2 08:40:06 PDT > 2006 > root@enterprise.myhome.westell.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC.20060916 > i386 > > I cannot print from some applications, namely xpdf > and > evince. I am trying to print pdf's from these as > printing in adobe reader 7 is disabled. I have cups > installed and running and I can > print from firefox and openoffice.org. > > In both xpdf and evince, the print dialog gives me a > prompt for a printing command, not a printer to > choose. This is a brother laser which is supported. > > This is a usb printer, lpstat shows: > > lpstat -p -d > printer Brother_Laser is idle. enabled since Jan 01 > 00:00 > system default destination: Brother_Laser > > /var/log/messages shows: > > Oct 6 08:45:56 enterprise lpd[11501]: /dev/lp: No > such file or directory > > anything I can do to get printing in these apps to > work? > Did you remember to move or delete the lp* files from /usr/bin/ so that they don't conflict with the cups versions in /usr/local/bin/ ? Andrew L. Gould
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