From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 6 21:21:06 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG Delivered-To: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21F9616A492 for ; Fri, 6 Oct 2006 21:21:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kdagee2@yahoo.com) Received: from web31503.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web31503.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.198.132]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B202943D4C for ; Fri, 6 Oct 2006 21:21:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdagee2@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 97158 invoked by uid 60001); 6 Oct 2006 21:21:04 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=pmRouNIuKP5pNHZodXoqf7oohwSi95W3F+5q7Zli8Z2ePx4EVkobx9G8bS5fm7KWUabAewhfx18eevUj7wNQKnxRTuYWO/nYzyVoS+TRYcX69xwQXJXsus0Y9Gj8MxW/KnZhJTgiqEdrKI5RKd6Ofho7FGihhKZQFFcwvIGQr7A= ; Message-ID: <20061006212104.97156.qmail@web31503.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Received: from [71.115.244.130] by web31503.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 06 Oct 2006 14:21:04 PDT Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Karl Agee To: Andrew Gould , freebsd-questions In-Reply-To: <20061006211317.17348.qmail@web35313.mail.mud.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: Subject: Re: Printing Problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 21:21:06 -0000 --- Andrew Gould wrote: > --- Karl Agee 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 > Andrew: thanks for the reply. No, I didnt do that--what happened is lp got whacked at some point and I just re-ran apsfilter to set it back up, now I am printing again. 8-) --Karl __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com