Printing with Canon Pixma iP1800 on Fedora Core 7

[Valentina M]

On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 3:11 PM, Kevin Martin <kevintm at ameritech.net> wrote:

>
>
> Todd Denniston wrote:
>
>> Valentina M wrote, On 07/24/2008 11:56 AM:
>>
>>> On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 12:17 PM, Kevin Martin <kevintm at ameritech.net>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Valentina M wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>  <SNIP>
>>
>>>
>>>>> Well I logged as root, and keeps happening the same. When I try to
>>>>> print
>>>>> from OpenOfficeOrg or even from the printer settings, in the menu,
>>>>> where u
>>>>> can send a "Test Print Page" . Just doesn't do anything...
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>> Valentina
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>  Do you see any odd usb errors in dmesg or in /var/log/messages?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Kevin
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> In dsmeg I dont see anything like an error, only this one which I dont
>>> know
>>> what is it :
>>> handlers:
>>> [<f8ccc3bb>] (via_driver_irq_handler+0x0/0x165 [via])
>>> Disabling IRQ #20
>>> MPU-401 device not found or device busy
>>> PPP generic driver version 2.4.2
>>>
>>> And at /var/log/messages it tells me Access Denied, even if I'm working
>>> as
>>> root. And when I wanna see what's inside /var/log doesnt show messages..
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> anything appearing in /var/log/cups/* when you attempt to print (as a
>> normal user or as root)?
>>
>> And do you mean there is no /var/log/messages or that there are no new
>> messages there when you try to print?
>>
>>  And if there is a /var/log/messages file and you can't access it as root
> then you've got another problem that may be more serious and/or may be
> related as that would indicate that root might not be root.
>
> Kevin
>
>
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it appears like this:

[root at localhost mario]# /var/log/
audit/          gdm/            prelink/        vdr/
BackupPC/       httpd/          samba/
bittorrent/     mail/           setroubleshoot/
cups/           ppp/            vbox/
[root at localhost mario]# /var/log/messages
bash: /var/log/messages: Access Denied          --------- translated in
english
[root at localhost mario]#
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