autodetect and setup printer
 

I setup the Slackware 10 a while ago. Love it! Now I want to add Epson 777 to it by using USB. Can someone tell me how to restart the autodetect process and set it up. I ckeck the kernel, USB is enabled. I try to do it from KDE add printer, but without success.
Thanks in advance.
Steven

try using cups. This assuming that you selected the cups daemon at install. to log into cups open up a browser and trype localhost:631. It should bring to the cups admin screen. Should easy from there. You may want to run dmesg prior to this to see if the usb printer was picked up. And in general all epson printers are linux compatible.

cups are installed, but I might not install the cups deamon. I couldn't find /etc/init.d/cups. What would be the best way to restall that? By the way, when I type localhost:631 in browser, it said location cannot be found.

Slackware uses BSD style init scripts (it supports System V but its not the default) so the file is /etc/rc.d/rc.cups
Do: chmod +x /etc/rc.d/rc.cups and it will be executed on boot. You should also first remove lprng and cups and then reinstall cups in order to avoid conflicts between them.

Last night I was trying to install some packages from my downloaded directory. I cd to that directory, start pkgtool using console within kde, choose the first option to install from the current directory, and then it exit. Should I do it outside X? Is Kpackage a better tool? But it doesn't seem to recognize the .tgz packages, Why?

It's recommended to be outside X only for "critical" packages or X itself, it's not needed anyway (most of the times..)
I dunno about Kpackages, i've never used it.
You can also manage packages with installpkg, removepkg and upgradepkg, take a look at their man pages to learn more about them.

Thanks for the help. I get to the cups setup page, finally realized that something is wrong with my printer, that I confirmed it under windows XP. By the way, Kpackage seems like a friendly tool to use. I use it to install and uninstall packages with ease.