On Tuesday 22 April 2008 10:40:25 am Roland Smith wrote: > On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 10:08:37AM -0500, David Reedy Jr wrote: > > > IICR, the print device should belong to the cups group. At least, > > > that's my working setup. > > > > > > I have the following in /etc/devfs.conf: > > > > > > # Give cups printer access > > > own lpt0 root:cups > > > perm lpt0 0660 > > > > Thanks for the info. This didn't actually fix the problem, but I > > know it was needed since I read somewhere that everything that > > cupsd spawns runs as cups. > > > > What I ended up doing was resetting my cupsd.conf to default and > > redid my settings. I must have had a typo in there somewhere before > > because as soon as I restarted cupsd after making the changes, the > > parallel and usb ports suddenly became available as devices for the > > printer. > > It happens. :-) > > > I had previously selected lpd and then manually specified the uri > > as parallel:/dev/lpt0. > > > > The laser on the parallel port is now working fine. > > Good. > > > I also went ahead > > and setup my deskjet on usb:/dev/ulpt0. Print test pages get marked > > as completed but nothing actually comes out of the printer. Still > > trying to figure that one out. > > Have a look at the cups logfiles in /var/log/cups. They should give > you some pointers. You'll probably need to set the device permissions > for ulpt in devfs.rules, not devfs.conf! > I got the rules setup in devfs.rules, no problem. When I turn on the printer it's detected...
ulpt0: <HP Deskjet 3840, class 0/0, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 2> on uhub0 ulpt0: using bi-directional mode and things get set right permission-wise... crw-rw---- 1 root cups 0, 88 Apr 22 21:20 /dev/ulpt0 according to /var/log/cups/error_log it prints... I [22/Apr/2008:21:20:03 -0500] Started "/usr/local/libexec/cups/cgi-bin/printers.cgi" (pid=756) I [22/Apr/2008:21:20:03 -0500] [Job 47] Adding start banner page "none". I [22/Apr/2008:21:20:03 -0500] [Job 47] Adding job file of type application/postscript. I [22/Apr/2008:21:20:03 -0500] [Job 47] Adding end banner page "none". I [22/Apr/2008:21:20:03 -0500] [Job 47] Queued on "inkjet" by "root". I [22/Apr/2008:21:20:03 -0500] [Job 47] Started filter /usr/local/libexec/cups/filter/pstops (PID 757) I [22/Apr/2008:21:20:03 -0500] [Job 47] Started filter /usr/local/libexec/cups/filter/pstoraster (PID 758) I [22/Apr/2008:21:20:03 -0500] [Job 47] Started filter /usr/local/libexec/cups/filter/rastertohp (PID 759) I [22/Apr/2008:21:20:03 -0500] [Job 47] Started backend /usr/local/libexec/cups/backend/usb (PID 760) I [22/Apr/2008:21:20:06 -0500] Started "/usr/local/libexec/cups/cgi-bin/printers.cgi" (pid=761) I [22/Apr/2008:21:20:06 -0500] [Job 47] Completed successfully. I [22/Apr/2008:21:20:17 -0500] Started "/usr/local/libexec/cups/cgi-bin/printers.cgi" (pid=762) but the job disappears into some sort of black hole. Nothing prints. Printer just sits there peacefully doing nothing. From printers.conf for this printer... <Printer inkjet> Info HP DeskJet 3845 Location Bottom DeviceURI usb:/dev/ulpt0 State Idle StateTime 1208917161 Accepting Yes Shared Yes JobSheets none none QuotaPeriod 0 PageLimit 0 KLimit 0 AllowUser root AllowUser davidrjr OpPolicy default ErrorPolicy stop-printer </Printer> If anybody has additional insight, I'd sure appreciate it. Dave > Roland _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"