[Wine]Printing simply DOES NOT WORK; print dialog just stays open

[Rainer Lay]

Hiji wrote:
> 
> --- Rainer Lay <rainer.lay at gmx.de> wrote:
> 
>>regarding this old message:
>>
>>> 
>>>Am Sam, Mär 20, 2004 at 04:40:10 -0500 schrieb
>>JLB:
>>>>Nopers, and it FREAKS OUT when I go into Printer
>>Setup and select a page
>>>>orientation (e.g. Portrait)
>>>Hmmm, seems that you first have to learn how to
>>configure printing? Look
>>>in the Documentation section on winehq for that.
>>If you use Cups
>>>everything is done for you otherwise add something
>>like this to your
>>>config:
>>>
>>>[ppd]
>>>"XXX" =
>>"/usr/share/doc/wine-20031212/samples/generic.ppd"
>>>where XXX is the name of your printer from
>>printcap and the ppd ios the
>>>example from the wine sources.
>>>
>>>Regards
>>>        Joachim
>>>-- 
>>>"Never touch a running system! Never run a
>>touching system?
>>>          Never run a touchy system!!!"
>>
>>
>>I still have this problem, although I am using cups!
>>any idea?
>>
>>My config: SuSE 9.3, wine-20050211-4
>>Configured windows version: "win98" (with winetools
>>
>>kind regards,
>>Rainer
> 
> If you have compiled from source, you need to make
> sure you have installed cups-devel before compiling. 
> cups-devel does not come with suse 9.3 (at the version
> I had.)
> 
> Hiji
> 

I used the rpm from SuSE. And I see the cups printers, I only cannot use
them.

rgds, Rainer