Xerox 3117 manual Common Linux Problems, Etc/printcap file

Common Linux Problems

Problem	Possible Cause and Solution
I can’t change settings in	You need to have administrator privileges to be able to
the configuration tool.	affect global settings.
I am using the KDE	Maybe you do not have the GTK libraries installed. These
desktop but the	usually come with most Linux distributions, but you may
configuration tool and	have to install them manually. Refer to your distribution’s
LLPR won’t start.	installation manual for more details about installing
	additional packages.
I just installed this	Some versions of the KDE or GNOME desktop
package but can’t find	environments may require that you restart your session
entries in the KDE/	for the changes to take effect.
Gnome menus.
I get a “Some options are	Some printers have conflicting settings, meaning that
not selected” error	some settings for two options can’t be selected at the
message while editing the	same time. When you change a setting and the Printer
printer settings.	Package detects such a conflict, the conflicting option is
	changed to a “No Choice” value, and you have to choose
	an option that does not conflict before being able to submit
	the changes.	5
I can’t make a printer the	• In some conditions, it may not be possible to change the
system default.	default queue. This happens with some variants of
	LPRng, especially on recent RedHat systems that use the
	‘printconf’ database of queues.
	• When using printconf, the /etc/printcap file is
	automatically refreshed from the database of printers
	managed by the system (usually through the ‘printtool’
	command), and the queues in /etc/printcap.local are
	appended to the resulting file. since the default queue in
	LPRng is defined as the first queue in /etc/printcap,
	therefore it is not possible for the Xerox Printer Package
	to change the default when some queues have otherwise
	been defined using printtool.
	• LPD systems identify the default queue as the one
	named ‘lp’. Thus if there is already a queue by this name,
	and if it doesn’t have any alias, then you won’t be able to
	change the default. To work around this, you can either
	delete the queue, or rename it by manually editing the /
	etc/printcap file.

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