SuSE Linux PowerPC: Versions since 6.4
Please test, if your printer is accessible using the following
command (as user root
):
echo -en "Hello\f" >/dev/lp0Provided the printer is connected to the first parallel port /dev/lp0 you should get one sheet with the word
Hello
printed on it.Hello
followed by the
ASCII-character \f
which initiates a form feed).
Printers that are not able to print ASCII-text, are mostly
so called GDI-printers, but there are printers which cannot print
ASCII-text but are usable under Linux nevertheless.
If the printer is able to print ASCII-text but doesn't print
the word Hello
probably the IO-port of the parallel interface
is not set correctly.
Normally you find the following lines in the file
/etc/modules.conf
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc options parport_pc io=0x378 irq=none,noneSet either
io=0x3bc
or io=0x278
for the
IO-adress of the parallel interface (see the article
Printer Problems: Special Causes).echo -en "Hello\f" >/dev/lp0
works.
If the parallel interface works now, go on using the article Installing a printer for PowerPC