Xerox 3130 User Guide

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ROBLEMS
6.20
Common Linux Problems
Problem
Possible Cause and Solution
I can’t change settings in 
the configuration tool.
You need to have administrator privileges to be able to 
affect global settings.
I am using the KDE 
desktop but the 
configuration tool and 
LLPR won’t start.
Maybe you do not have the GTK libraries installed. These 
usually come with most Linux distributions, but you may 
have to install them manually. Refer to your distribution’s 
installation manual for more details about installing 
additional packages.
I just installed this 
package but can’t find 
entries in the KDE/
Gnome menus.
Some versions of the KDE or GNOME desktop 
environments may require that you restart your session 
for the changes to take effect.
I get a “Some options are 
not selected” error 
message while editing 
the printer settings.
Some printers have conflicting settings, meaning that 
some settings for two options can’t be selected at the 
same time. When you change a setting and the Printer 
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.
I can’t make a printer the 
system default.
• In some conditions, it may not be possible to change the 
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.