Setting Up Printer *SOLVED*

[Cabhan]

Alrighty. Hello all.

As of right now, I don't seem to have a working printer. I have emerged CUPS, and when I go to the KDE Printing Manager, I see a bunch of special printers (such as PDF, Postscript, etc.), but no actual printer.

The setting is on:

Generic UNIX LPD Print System (default)

The option to "Add Printer/Class" is greyed out and I cannot do anything.

When I try to switch to CUPS, I get this error:

Unable to retrieve the printer list. Error message received from manager:
Connection to CUPS server failed. Check that the CUPS server is correctly installed and running. Error: connection refused.

Does anyone know how to fix this?

Thanks.

[dylunio]

Hmm, have you settup CUPS? YOu can do this by typing

lacalhost:631

in a browser.

dylunio

[jaboua]

I assume you meant localhost, dylunio?

[Cabhan]

"localhost:631" tells me:

The connection was refused when attempting to contact localhost:631.

"lacalhost:631" takes me to a webpage with a lot of unsupported unicode characters and a picture of a cell phone.

:P.

[jaboua]

Oh... I thought it was a typo.

[Cabhan]

I think it was. But either way, neither works.

Is there anything else I can try?

[Cabhan]

Problem Fixed. If anyone has this problem after me:

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/printing-howto.xml