[Glastonbury] My CUPS floweth not ...

[Andrew M.A. Cater]

On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 12:55:46PM +0000, tim hall wrote:
> Thanks for all the responses. Getting closer ...
> 
> I don't have USB currently enabled. (interrupt conflicts with soundcard) is it 
> generally regarded as being 'better' than parallel port for printers?
I found it automagically easier - your mileage may vary :)
> 
> As I'm using Apache locally, do I need to configure it to allow scripts to run 
> from /usr/lib/cups/cgi-bin/ ? Would this account for the web interface not 
> working?
If cups is installed - just go to localhost port 631 -
http://localhost:631 and you should get a printer admin page.  Login as
root and put in your root password.
> The error_log give this:
>  PPD file for lexmark-z53 cannot be loaded!
>  Missing PPD-Adobe-4.x header on line 0.
> 
Look inside the rpm for a .ppd file. Move it to
/usr/share/cups/model/<name of .ppd file> and you may be away :)
> Print jobs are being queued, but not executed. Enabling debug level error logs 
> & try again!
> 
> cheers
> 
> tim hall
> 
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