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--- Begin Message ---Package: cups Version: 1.3.11-1+b1 Severity: important I have an old Samsung laser printer connected to the parallel port. When I try to add it to cups I only get "unknown printer", e.g. root@gaia:~# /usr/lib/cups/backend/parallel direct parallel:/dev/lp0 "Unknown" "LPT #1" However, the kernel has the necessary information: root@gaia:~# cat /proc/sys/dev/parport/parport0/autoprobe CLASS:PRINTER; MODEL:ML-5000A; MANUFACTURER:Samsung; COMMAND SET:PCL5E; Running the parallel backend under strace shows: root@gaia:~# strace /usr/lib/cups/backend/parallel .... access("/dev/parallel/", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) access("/dev/printers/", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/dev/lp0", O_RDWR|O_EXCL|O_LARGEFILE) = 3 ioctl(3, SNDCTL_DSP_SYNC, 0xbfb4cc2c) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument) open("/dev/parport0", O_RDWR|O_NOCTTY|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) fstat64(1, {st_mode=S_IFCHR|0620, st_rdev=makedev(136, 1), ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7f44000 write(1, "direct parallel:/dev/lp0 \"Unknow"..., 44direct parallel:/dev/lp0 "Unknown" "LPT #1" ) = 44 close(3) This ioctl() on /dev/lp0 is totally bogus. AFAICT Linux 2.6.30 doesn't have any ioctl at all to get the IEEE 1284 "device id" information. The only available method is to read the above /proc/sys information. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.30.4 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages cups depends on: ii adduser 3.110 add and remove users and groups ii bc 1.06.94-3.1 The GNU bc arbitrary precision cal ii cups-client 1.3.11-1+b1 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - ii cups-common 1.3.11-1 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.27 Debian configuration management sy ii ghostscript 8.70~dfsg-2 The GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF ii libavahi-compat-libdns 0.6.25-1 Avahi Apple Bonjour compatibility ii libc6 2.9-25 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcups2 1.3.11-1+b1 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - ii libcupsimage2 1.3.11-1+b1 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.16-2 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libgcc1 1:4.4.1-2 GCC support library ii libgnutls26 2.8.3-1 the GNU TLS library - runtime libr ii libgssapi-krb5-2 1.7dfsg~beta3-1 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - k ii libijs-0.35 0.35-7 IJS raster image transport protoco ii libkrb5-3 1.7dfsg~beta3-1 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries ii libldap-2.4-2 2.4.17-1 OpenLDAP libraries ii libpam0g 1.0.1-10 Pluggable Authentication Modules l ii libpaper1 1.1.23+nmu1 library for handling paper charact ii libpoppler4 0.10.6-1 PDF rendering library ii libslp1 1.2.1-7.6 OpenSLP libraries ii libstdc++6 4.4.1-2 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii lsb-base 3.2-23 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip ii perl-modules 5.10.0-25 Core Perl modules ii poppler-utils [xpdf-ut 0.10.6-1 PDF utilitites (based on libpopple ii procps 1:3.2.8-1 /proc file system utilities ii ssl-cert 1.0.23 simple debconf wrapper for OpenSSL ii ttf-freefont 20090104-4 Freefont Serif, Sans and Mono True ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-15 compression library - runtime Versions of packages cups recommends: pn avahi-utils <none> (no description available) pn cups-driver-gutenprint <none> (no description available) ii foomatic-filters 4.0-20090509-1 OpenPrinting printer support - fil pn ghostscript-cups <none> (no description available) ii smbclient 2:3.4.0-2+b1 command-line SMB/CIFS clients for Versions of packages cups suggests: ii cups-bsd 1.3.11-1+b1 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - ii cups-pdf 2.5.0-4 PDF printer for CUPS ii foomatic-db 20090616-1 OpenPrinting printer support - dat ii foomatic-db-engine 4.0-20090509-2 OpenPrinting printer support - pro ii hplip 3.9.4b-1 HP Linux Printing and Imaging Syst pn xpdf-korean | xpdf-japane <none> (no description available) -- debconf information: cupsys/raw-print: true cupsys/backend: ipp, lpd, parallel, scsi, serial, socket, usb, snmp, dnssd
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--- Begin Message ---Dear Debian User, This bug report was submitted against a version of CUPS that is no longer supported in Debian. Use of our limited, volunteer supported resources is best served by not keeping around old, hardware-specific and inactive bugs for longer than desirable, so the report is now being closed. You may, of course, wish to review the reported problem. It would be appreciated if any future investigation could be conducted using the testing or unstable distributions. If considered necessary, this report could be re-opened or a new bug report, possibly referencing this one, submitted. Please note there are now separate cups and cups-filters packages. Thank you for your report. Regards, Brian.
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