Re: [Mageia-dev] What to use instead of /dev/usb/lp*

[Christiaan Welvaart]

On Sat, 28 Jul 2012, Florian Hubold wrote:

Am 25.07.2012 20:05, schrieb Christiaan Welvaart:
On Wed, 25 Jul 2012, Jeff Robins wrote:
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 2:11 AM, Claire Robinson <eeeem...@gmail.com> wrote:
usblp is blacklisted but you may find using modprobe usblp cures it for
you. If it does then comment it in
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-cups-common.conf or remove that file.

I'll give that a try.  Is there a better/newer way to access the
device?  I'd like to update
and fix the program if possible.

The blacklisting is not needed anymore with recent cups(?) according to
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/+bug/902970/comments/12

so removing the file from the cups package should be the solution.


    Christiaan

Are you sure we have the exact same cups usb backend as
in recent *buntu versions? AFAIK usblp caused some segfaults and
crashes, so it was blacklisted by default. But if any program loads
it explicitely, it will work.

No, but I plan to update cups to 1.5.4 which has those fixes for usb 
AFAICT, see http://www.cups.org/str.php?L4128 . My printer is connected 
through my LAN so can't easily test usb access, however.

    Christiaan