Printing as a user - FreeBSD, Apsfilter, KDE

[Michael Dunham]

hello..

I am using FreeBSD as my desktop.  I'm looking for help to print as a user 
from KDE.  I can generate a test print from Apsfilter just fine in the shell 
using the setup script.

I think I either do not have a spooler set up right, or a permission perhaps.
I also don't really know what I should select for the printer in KDE or if
there should be a command line entry.

I did have the sample lp setup in my printcap file at one point, currently
that is commented out.

I'm Running:
	FreeBSD – Current (5.1)
	Printer Canon BJC-610
	Parallel /dev/lp0
	LPD on start up
	Ghostscript-gnu

As SU checking for the lpt:
	freebie# dmesg | grep lpt
	lpt0: <Printer> on ppbus0
	lpt0: Interrupt-driven port
	freebie# ls -l /dev/lpt0
	crw-------  1 root  wheel   16,   0 Oct 29 09:09 /dev/lpt0

From Apsfilter setup:
	Checking permissions of /usr/local/share/apsfilter
	found dir owner=root, ok!
	found dir group=wheel, ok!
	changing permissions of /usr/local/share/apsfilter... done.

	Now we are checking file permissions in spooldir

	Your line printer scheduler's spooldir seems to be: /var/spool/lpd

	drwxrwxrwx  2 root  daemon  512 Oct 17 01:25 /var/spool/lpd

	The Owner of your spooldir seems to be: root
	The Group of your spooldir seems to be: daemon

First time through on test print returns a printer busy and resets printer
Second time through works fine
I reset printers as suggested in setup

From KDE 3.1.4

using OpenOffice – Writer, from open document
	selected “Generic Printer.”
	Windows fly by but nothing happens.  As I understand it, generic printer
should be lpd and should be captured by Apsfilter.


using Kmail, selected
	print through external program, ps (only possible selection: postscript
printer, reports idle, accepting jobs), print command line empty.
	Reports generating print file, then:
A print error occured. Error message received from system:
Empty print command.

Using Kmail, selecting Generic LPD print system, no device, no option to
 print

Using Kmail, cannot select LPR/LPRng (port not installed at this time, will
not compile on 5.1) – not an Apsfilter issue obviously.

Using KDE Control Center, peripherals, printer
Print Through External Program, PS_printer (only device available)
Unable to send, empty print command

Any help or config file to check would be greatly appreciated.
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MIKE...
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