On Friday 28 Nov 2003 10:32 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > >On Friday 28 Nov 2003 7:01 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > >>On Friday 28 November 2003 05:09 am, John Richard Smith wrote: > >>>JRThen again, according to KDE-peripherals-printer, > >>>JRkde believes my Z53 is on a port, local system-USB-USB > >>>JRprinte~1-Lexmark Z53, > >>>JRmaybe it is in kde parlance, but if so the OS thinks it is on > >>>JR/dev/usb/lp0 > >>>JRBut thern again "Pup" see's my printer as /dev/lp0 which is > >>>wrong, JRand it should be /dev/usb/lp0 but nothing I do to alter > >>>it here takes. JRSo I don't know ? > >>>JR > >>>JRJohn > >>>JR > >> > >>Have you tried removing all instances of your printer, down to > >>zero, and running printerdrake again? > >> > >>I did this at one point. It might help - I've seen it suggested > >>before. > > > >John, are you still on 9.1? I've set up all my printers from MCC > >printerdrake. For some reason yours seems to be confused as to > >whether it is connected by parallel port or usb. You can modify > > the settings, including the connection, there in printerdrake. > > Don't forget, though, that unless you back out gracefully your > > changes will not be saved. > > > >Anne > > No I have to fixkde print in M9.1 before I can spare the partition > that was where M9.0 was for M9.2. > > But looks like wiping the lot and starting again has done the > trick, I think M9.1 had a bug in the detection and setup of usb > printer port. But I guess it's old news now. > The detection is odd, sometimes it detects correctly as usb, and other times you have to tell it that it's wrong, and change it to usb. Once set, though, it seems entirely stable.
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