i would like to appologize for misspelling your nickname.

windows and macs (at least untill OS X) gave a lot of people a set of bad habits. such as whiping out a lot of stuff and installing it fresh, frequent reboots for no reason at all etc. we have a lot of power at our hands error logs, monitoring programs, human readable configuration files, editors, compilers, various scripting environments and, well, a very good operating system itself. reboot is justifiable only on two cases: system crash and kernel recompile.
If something did not work and you just reinstalled it without figuring out what went wrong moust probably you set yourself up to repeat this procedure in the near future.

Thanks notAcoolNick for your suggestions. I guess I had already tried why you mention especially viewing the log file for error message. I cant find any error message thats the problem as I need to use the printer urgently thus I used the lazy method.

Dont worry about my name.

You got a cool idea pal.

Thanx man.
Sorry for getting on the runt though (I try not to do that very often).
Next time you see a problem you can change level and verbosity of error and debug messages in the log through /etc/cups/cupsd.conf file (the amount of messages can become pretty overwhelming but under closer consideration you'll be able to find required information). Don't forget to restart cupsd every time you change config. file and, afeter you figure out what is wrong, to dercrease or turn off the verbosity level (or our /var/log directory will fill up pretty quikly).
Best regards.

Hello Fellows and Fellerinas..

Great forum here. I, likewise, have gone through the Slackware 9.0 printer purgatory. I wonder if this nugget offers any insight....If i try to print buffer from Emacs, I get a valid printout...but if i select "POSTSCRIPT print buffer" I get reams of trash. THis sort of puts to rest any particular problem with Abiwork, StarOffice, etc, since it's the same EMACS program for each. Something is not triggering APSFILTER to recognize Postscript, except during the printer test. Very odd IMSMHO.

Other than that, KDE3 is far prettier than anything "Widows" has put out, and the driver-locating algorithms are every bit as user friendly as Mandrake.

Now...all I'm looking for is an open source version of Labview.....ha ha ha he he he ho ho ho!

Chutla

Hey, check out my fix for cups.