FC5 vs cups vs Epson C82 printer

Kam Leo kam.leo at gmail.com
Tue Apr 4 16:55:16 UTC 2006


On 4/4/06, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net> wrote:
> Greetings;
>
> 3 or 4 questions actually.  New install, whatdidjaexpect? :)
>
> After getting a boot to work on FC5, I switched the inittab to 3 for my
> next bootup, (and no one has told me what to change to make it use KDE
> yet when I type startx from a runlevel 3 login, and I have asked here
> twice already) but while I was there I tried to setup my printer which
> works flawlessly here using FC2 but with tarball builds of cups, kde,
> gimp, sane, gutenprint, (yadda) replacing the rpm packages.
>
> Is it as simple as a 'yum install switchdesk'?
>
> I did see it install foomatic, but don't recall seeing either gimp-print
> or gutenprint go by.  But seeing as how it did install foomatic, I
> figured that when I sent a browser to localhost:631, I'd have my choice
> of hundreds of drivers in all languages for my printer.
>
> Imagine my surprise when the espon menu showed me only about 10
> potential drivers, none of which seem to be capable of driving my C82.
> I did try one, and sent a test page, but stopped it 30 minutes later
> (this in 360x360 dpi mode mind you, which should have been a 10 second
> job) when the printer, after laboring mightily all this time, had only
> manage to feed about 1.5" of paper.  On ejecting the page, the ink was
> good and black, but had not soaked thru the paper as I would have
> expected.  It was also in a very coarse dpi on the paper, and the top
> of the cups test pages color wheel was black only.
>
> So at this point I'm assuming something isn't configured right by the
> foomatic install else I'd have had my choice of drivers well covered.
>
> So what sort of a magic twanger do I need to find?
>
> Comment: On this FC2 box, I removed foomatic years ago, reconfigured and
> rebuilt cups to use the gimp-print drivers, and brought my C82's output
> up to the equivalent of that of a chemical darkroom, something I also
> have no little experience with over the last 60 years.  Do I have to
> similarly "break" the FC5 install by doing it again just to make it
> work, or is this a known issue with a fix readily available?
>
> Also, I just now tried to boot my 2.6.16.1 kernel, running right now,
> but when it gets to the initial console it reports it cannot open it
> and hangs till you give it the vulcan nerve pinch & reboot.  Hints on
> that would be appreciated.
>
> And, how do I fix X so that when I type startx, kde comes up?  I've had
> no luck getting gnomes evolution to fetch mail, the correct password
> isn't correct.
>
> --
> Cheers, Gene

[snip]

Gene, the following worked for me on FC4.

Edit /etc/sysconfig/desktop. Add or modify line to read

DESKTOP="KDE"

This will cause all users to default to KDE.  If you want to use KDE's
displaymanager append this line:

DISPLAYMANAGER=KDE




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