Help!
Hi, I got your email address from the Linux Magazine LUG listings, I live in
Beeston and would really appreciate some local Linux knowledge! (I also
apologise if I'm goining about thisa the wrong way - but don't know any
better!)
I'm a home PC linux user - I bought Mandrkae 7.1 to go with a new PC
last year, and I've been slowly gaining confidence with it ever since.
Desktop use works okay, but its the command line level where things tend not
to follow the published instructions.
I'm fairly good with Win95, etc, but I wanted my home
machine to be MS free! I started out on PCs with MS-DOS 3.3 [oh, and
originally played with Sinclair Basic on a ZX81!]. I'm therefore happy enough
with the notion of both GUI driven actions and "behind-the-scenes" command
line processing. However ...
I recently bought an Epson Stylus Colour 680, having checked out it's
suitability with Linux @ www.linux-printing.org. So far so good, and I've
created a UPP driver (Stc680p.upp), placed it in the correct Ghostscript
directory along with the existent ones, added the correct entry into the
rhsprinter.db database file under the Epson Stylus Colour (UP) section [see
www.best.com/~murakami/uppfiles/index.html] and tried both "printtool" and
Mandrake's own "printerdrake" utilities. Neither show the addition of the 680
in their listing sections - and there are no obvious case-sensitive
discrepancies [my usual first mistake!]. Bum. What am I missing? Why won't
the printer list update to show the contenct of rhsprinter.db?
Please spare a second to help me out. I believe in the notion, power and
future of Linux and I don't want to have to give it up and crawl back to Bill's
empire!
Cheers!
Rich Chaney
--++ RockHopper12 on Linux-Mandrake 7.1 ++
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