From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 17 04:00:14 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C812D16A468 for ; Sun, 17 Feb 2008 04:00:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from oceanare@pacific.net.sg) Received: from smtpgate2.pacific.net.sg (smtpgate2.pacific.net.sg [203.120.90.32]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F1FFC13C455 for ; Sun, 17 Feb 2008 04:00:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from oceanare@pacific.net.sg) Received: (qmail 12184 invoked from network); 17 Feb 2008 04:00:10 -0000 Received: from adsl246.dyn234.pacific.net.sg (HELO P2120.somewherefaraway.com) (oceanare@210.24.234.246) by smtpgate2.pacific.net.sg with ESMTPA; 17 Feb 2008 04:00:10 -0000 Message-ID: <47B7B142.2030202@pacific.net.sg> Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 12:00:02 +0800 From: Erich Dollansky User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070826) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Falanga References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: question about xwindows 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: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 04:00:14 -0000 Hi, first of all, you used that bad letter. Just call it X. Never add an s at the end of the other word. Some people are real allergic to this. Robert Falanga wrote: > First let me say that I am quite new at freebsd or any other unix type > system. > My son helped me set up the xwindows (KDE) on this system. It has worked > OK for quite a while and then yesterday I was trying to install a > printer. Evidently I messed something up and now I get the following: You must have some printing system installed on the machine. I would recommend CUPS for this purpose. Go to a console and enter this: pkg_info | grep cups You should get then some output like this: cups-base-1.3.3 Common UNIX Printing System libgnomecups-0.2.2_4,1 Support library for gnome cups admistration This error messages are too general for me. > hostname: not found > dd: not found > Couldn't create cookie > > I haven't a clue as to what is wrong, would someone help PLEASE? If you have CUPS, you can use a web browser to administer the printer. What kind of rpinter do you have installed? Erich