Re: Printer problem: help a newbie

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 > From: http://www.uclink4.berkeley.edu/~willlee (William W. Lee)
 > Date: Thu  Oct 31,  4:32am
 >
 > Hmm, right now I am completely frustrated since I just played around
 > with the aps 2.3 and unable to get it to work.  I used to able to get
 > the printer to print at least one line (because of the "staircase
 > effect" as described in the printing howto).  Right now I can't even
 > print anything at all.  I've tried to print something from netscape
 > and by some other commands like lpr and I have several files from the
 > spool now waiting to be print, but there is no response whatsoever on
 > my Deskjet 540.  Anybody can give any insight to me is greatly
 > appreciated.  The printing howto is pretty general and doesn't really
 > help much, especially I don't know much about parallel port and IRQ
 > stuff for my printer...
 > 
 > Thanks in advance.
 > 
 > BTW, I am using Slackware 96 and Linux Kernel 2.0.6
 > will

I've always had to recompile the kernel to get parallel port support.  Have
you tried that yet?

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