Are your using HP printers, and if so, have you recently switched from
using hpoj+hpijs to using the newer hplip package which is supposed to
replace the old combination?
If this is the case, we're having the same problem, which seems to be
with hplip-0.9.7-r3. I haven't found a solution to the problem yet.
According to the doc, you *must* have ppds in your USE flags for hplip
to allow it to generate the .ppd files.
FWIW, here are my USE flags for cups and hplip:
net-print/cups-1.1.23-r7 -gnutls +nls +pam +samba +slp +ssl
net-print/hplip-0.9.7-r3 +X +cups +foomaticdb +ppds +qt +scanner +snmp +usb
hpijs blocks hplip, and I believe that (unfortunately) hpoj is now
hard-masked, so it will be difficult to fall back to using the old
(working) hpoj ptal interface.
Cheers, Dave
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At work, I am not using HP printers, they are Lexmarks (Yuck!),
however, you just gave me a very good explanation that will help me
with *another* problem that I am having: At home, I just finished
installing Gentoo on an AMD X2 4200 based system and I could not get
my little HP LaserJet 1020 printer working... I "googled it" and
tried any of the solutions, but none of them worked...
Maybe I'll just unmask the older driver and try. I'll let you know if
I was successful.
In both cases I have pretty much the same USE flags that you do...
Thanks a lot
- AR
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