Mandrake-printer question

[cal herrmann]

Thanks, I have learned a couple of things!
1.  lpq reports no entries.
2. rmmod parport (or lp)  (after su root!) reports Device or resource busy.
3. Shutdown of computer or printer doesn't help! The thing has a better 
memory than I have!
Thanks, Cal
 On Sunday 12 May 2002 10:44 pm, you wrote:
> On Sat, May 11, 2002 at 05:35:34AM -0400, cal herrmann wrote:
> > I got tangled-up trying to change a printer (ran out of ink in one), did
> > something wrong; printer now spits out paper until empty. How do I kill
> > the process? Jobs doesn't give me anything running to kill.
>
> Check "lpq"; if there's a job in the queue you can use "lprm" to kill it.
>
> If there's nothing in the print queue for the printer, it's possible that
> you managed to just send a whole lot of pagefeeds or linefeeds to the
> printer port so the kernel's got them all queued up, waiting, which means
> you might need to "rmmod parport ; rmmod lp ; rmmod parport" to get that
> stuff out of the way.  And if that doesn't work you might have to resort to
> shutting down.