Re: [gentoo-user] Printer isn't working. Help, please!
On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote: Evening, Experts! My printer isn't printing. More precisely, when in CUPS 1.5.2 (localhost:631), CUPS fails to find the printer. When I click on Find New Printers it comes back with Available Printers - No Printers Found.. My system has been like this since I converted back from mdev to udev. Though I have just built Linux 3.3.8 in the hope that a new kernel build would help. ;-(. Help would be most appreciated. TIA! I had to blacklist the usblp module for CUPS to work with my printer. FWIW. :)
Re: [gentoo-user] Printer isn't working. Help, please!
On Jul 24, 2012 8:19 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote: Evening, Experts! My printer isn't printing. More precisely, when in CUPS 1.5.2 (localhost:631), CUPS fails to find the printer. When I click on Find New Printers it comes back with Available Printers - No Printers Found.. My system has been like this since I converted back from mdev to udev. Though I have just built Linux 3.3.8 in the hope that a new kernel build would help. ;-(. Help would be most appreciated. TIA! I had to blacklist the usblp module for CUPS to work with my printer. FWIW. :) I think compiling without usb support is more sensible there.
Re: [gentoo-user] Printer isn't working. Help, please!
Paul Hartman wrote: On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote: Evening, Experts! My printer isn't printing. More precisely, when in CUPS 1.5.2 (localhost:631), CUPS fails to find the printer. When I click on Find New Printers it comes back with Available Printers - No Printers Found.. My system has been like this since I converted back from mdev to udev. Though I have just built Linux 3.3.8 in the hope that a new kernel build would help. ;-(. Help would be most appreciated. TIA! I had to blacklist the usblp module for CUPS to work with my printer. FWIW. :) I think I read something about this a while back. Maybe google can turn up a reason why since my memory is like a screen door, only catches some stuff but lets everything else flow right through. ;-) Since I have not had any trouble with my printer, I bet it was on this mailing list or KDE's mailing list. Those are the only two I subscribe to. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!
Re: [gentoo-user] Printer isn't working. Help, please!
On Tue, 2012-07-24 at 21:54 -0500, Dale wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote: Evening, Experts! My printer isn't printing. More precisely, when in CUPS 1.5.2 (localhost:631), CUPS fails to find the printer. When I click on Find New Printers it comes back with Available Printers - No Printers Found.. My system has been like this since I converted back from mdev to udev. Though I have just built Linux 3.3.8 in the hope that a new kernel build would help. ;-(. Help would be most appreciated. TIA! I had to blacklist the usblp module for CUPS to work with my printer. FWIW. :) I think I read something about this a while back. Maybe google can turn up a reason why since my memory is like a screen door, only catches some stuff but lets everything else flow right through. ;-) Since I have not had any trouble with my printer, I bet it was on this mailing list or KDE's mailing list. Those are the only two I subscribe to. Dale :-) :-) This broke my printing as well - I went the route of taking the module out of the kernel config. But what I didnt resolve to my satisfaction, is what is the best solution? - there are two that work but which *should* we use? BillK
Re: [gentoo-user] Printer isn't working. Help, please!
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 11:18 PM, Bill Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au wrote: On Tue, 2012-07-24 at 21:54 -0500, Dale wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote: Evening, Experts! My printer isn't printing. More precisely, when in CUPS 1.5.2 (localhost:631), CUPS fails to find the printer. When I click on Find New Printers it comes back with Available Printers - No Printers Found.. My system has been like this since I converted back from mdev to udev. Though I have just built Linux 3.3.8 in the hope that a new kernel build would help. ;-(. Help would be most appreciated. TIA! I had to blacklist the usblp module for CUPS to work with my printer. FWIW. :) I think I read something about this a while back. Maybe google can turn up a reason why since my memory is like a screen door, only catches some stuff but lets everything else flow right through. ;-) Since I have not had any trouble with my printer, I bet it was on this mailing list or KDE's mailing list. Those are the only two I subscribe to. Dale :-) :-) This broke my printing as well - I went the route of taking the module out of the kernel config. But what I didnt resolve to my satisfaction, is what is the best solution? - there are two that work but which *should* we use? I believe allowing CUPS to handle it directly is the preferred solution. Though that's not ideal if you're looking to, e.g. dump a text file directly to /dev/lp0, or write syslog to a printer. So, really, it depends on your use case. I expect the majority of people would find they want CUPS to handle it. -- :wq
Re: [gentoo-user] Printer isn't working. Help, please!
On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 07:44:51PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote: On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote: Evening, Experts! My printer isn't printing. More precisely, when in CUPS 1.5.2 (localhost:631), CUPS fails to find the printer. When I click on Find New Printers it comes back with Available Printers - No Printers Found.. My system has been like this since I converted back from mdev to udev. Though I have just built Linux 3.3.8 in the hope that a new kernel build would help. ;-(. Help would be most appreciated. What kind of printer? How is it connected to the computer? It's an old Samsung ML-1450, connected by a USB cable. The printer, of itself, works fine. It prints on my mdev system. What USE flags do you have enabled for the CUPS build? # emerge -pv cups gives: [ebuild R] net-print/cups-1.5.2-r4 USE=X acl dbus filters jpeg ldap pam perl png python ssl threads tiff usb -avahi -debug -gnutls -java -kerberos -slp -static-libs -xinetd LINGUAS=-da -de -es -eu -fi -fr -id -it -ja -ko -nl -no -pl -pt -pt_BR -ru -sv -zh -zh_TW 0 kB In particular, I've got usb set there. In my kernel config, # CONFIG_USB_PRINTER is not set , although I've tried setting it too, to no avail. If you re-emerge CUPS, it will spit some warnings at you if it detects problems with your kernel configuration. It gave me no warnings. -- :wq -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
Re: [gentoo-user] Printer isn't working. Help, please!
On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote: Evening, Experts! My printer isn't printing. More precisely, when in CUPS 1.5.2 (localhost:631), CUPS fails to find the printer. When I click on Find New Printers it comes back with Available Printers - No Printers Found.. My system has been like this since I converted back from mdev to udev. Though I have just built Linux 3.3.8 in the hope that a new kernel build would help. ;-(. Help would be most appreciated. What kind of printer? How is it connected to the computer? What USE flags do you have enabled for the CUPS build? If you re-emerge CUPS, it will spit some warnings at you if it detects problems with your kernel configuration. -- :wq
Re: [gentoo-user] Printer isn't working. Help, please!
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 5:14 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote: Evening, Experts! My printer isn't printing. More precisely, when in CUPS 1.5.2 (localhost:631), CUPS fails to find the printer. When I click on Find New Printers it comes back with Available Printers - No Printers Found.. My system has been like this since I converted back from mdev to udev. Though I have just built Linux 3.3.8 in the hope that a new kernel build would help. ;-(. Help would be most appreciated. What kind of printer? How is it connected to the computer? What USE flags do you have enabled for the CUPS build? If you re-emerge CUPS, it will spit some warnings at you if it detects problems with your kernel configuration. -- :wq Personally I prefer enabling USB printer support in kernel instead of cups (both of them are mutually exclusive!). Because, cupsd sometimes chokes when you shut off and on the printer many times. Once that happened I switched to kernel support and never faced the problem again.
Re: [gentoo-user] Printer isn't working. Help, please!
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 8:46 AM, Nilesh Govindrajan cont...@nileshgr.com wrote: On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 5:14 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote: Evening, Experts! My printer isn't printing. More precisely, when in CUPS 1.5.2 (localhost:631), CUPS fails to find the printer. When I click on Find New Printers it comes back with Available Printers - No Printers Found.. My system has been like this since I converted back from mdev to udev. Though I have just built Linux 3.3.8 in the hope that a new kernel build would help. ;-(. Help would be most appreciated. What kind of printer? How is it connected to the computer? What USE flags do you have enabled for the CUPS build? If you re-emerge CUPS, it will spit some warnings at you if it detects problems with your kernel configuration. -- :wq Personally I prefer enabling USB printer support in kernel instead of cups (both of them are mutually exclusive!). Because, cupsd sometimes chokes when you shut off and on the printer many times. Once that happened I switched to kernel support and never faced the problem again. If you have HP printer, install hplip package. Read cups logs in /var/log/cups or whatever.
Re: [gentoo-user] Printer isn't working. Help, please!
on 07/21/2012 08:58 PM Alan Mackenzie wrote the following: Evening, Experts! My printer isn't printing. More precisely, when in CUPS 1.5.2 (localhost:631), CUPS fails to find the printer. When I click on Find New Printers it comes back with Available Printers - No Printers Found.. My system has been like this since I converted back from mdev to udev. Though I have just built Linux 3.3.8 in the hope that a new kernel build would help. ;-(. Help would be most appreciated. TIA! Edit /etc/cups/cupsd.conf and set Browsing On, afterwards re-start or reload cups.
