Guest Frasir Posted October 22, 2006 Report Share Posted October 22, 2006 Hi, Whenever I try to add printer through KDE Control Centre or Mandriva's Configure Your Computer, the control screen freeze. From KDE Control Centre, the message windows is: initializing manager From Mandriva's Configure Your Computer, the message window is: Please wait, Setting Default Printer. I need to print, please help me. I have screenshots but can't paste it here. Thanks very much! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaraeez Posted October 23, 2006 Report Share Posted October 23, 2006 (edited) Hi there, I'm afraid I can't help but I have similar problems. My expierence is as follows: 1st. Same problem as yours when adding the printer (Deskjet 930c) through the MCC where the PC would freeze once I clicked on the add printer. 2nd. Rebooted, then checked if CUPS was started (service). It was not (hmm), OK started CUPS & went back to the add printer - Frooze!! 3rd. Rebooted & checked CUPS again - it was off again! Restarted the CUPS service then rebooted. 4th. Upon reboot went to add printer AGAIN & guess what .. lol it frooze (not even funny now) 5th. Rebooted & headed off to http://localhost:631. Here I did manged to add printer, but only root could print & on top of that the printer was just churning out page after page of a few characters. 6th. Headed back to MCC & guess what this time I could add the already added printer (via the web config), but again the printer was churning out paper. 7th. Rebooted (reminds me of my Windoze days) & again the printer was churning out pages of nothing. I then gave up... what a joke. Its a bloody printer not rocket science... I did try a few other things but the CUPS service would just stop when it wanted to & the paper coming out of the printer was very irrating to say the least. I've used Mandriva when it was called Mandrake as well as Mandriva 2005 & never had a problem with the printer. I did move distros for a while (Fedora 5) & again never had problems with the printer. Now back with Mandriva 2007 I find this a pain especially when everything else is running brilliantly... Conclusion: I will just wait till the distro matures a little or I find a solution (I'm not looking though as I have XP running in VMware & will do all printing from there for now..) Edited October 23, 2006 by jaraeez Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Frasir Posted October 23, 2006 Report Share Posted October 23, 2006 Oh dear ... jaraeez, I reaaly need to print ... sigh ... guess I have to pass it to my wife's Windows XP for printing ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shengchieh Posted October 24, 2006 Report Share Posted October 24, 2006 Have you tried the CUPS server webpage? Worked for me although Mandrake Control Center didn't. http://localhost:631 (this link is on your machine) Sheng-Chieh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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