Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo rebuild, cups won't work WORKAROUND (i.e. mysteriously solved)
Dave Jones wrote: Kevin O'Gorman wrote on 05/02/08 04:13: hp-setup stubbornly refuses to acknowledge /dev/lp0 I got it to work, but don't really know what was wrong. The drive that held my root directory and all configs had failed. Friday, i got it back from the DiskSavers, along with the data on a new USB external drive. Copying over the cups config files just magically made the printer work locally. I'm still struggling with a host of issues, so I'm going to ignore the fact that I have no idea what keeps my CUPS working. Please check that you have USE=parport enabled for hplip Thanks for the help. I did find that hplip was compiled without the parport flag. Since local printing on the parallel port is now working without it, I wonder what it does? Dale beat me to pointing out that you may have missed the parport USE flag, most likely the cause of the problem. I guess that you've restored your old /etc/hp/hplip.conf, which was probably enough to enable the cups print queue once you restored your /etc/cups directory. The hp-setup in the new hplip probably needs the parport USE flag to determine whether to support parallel port probes. Without the parport USE flag, I guess that it assumes that you're not interested in them. Thanks, and I'll get that info when I have things a bit more stable. Good luck, hope you get your system stabilised soon. Cheers, Dave Dale has added the USE flag parport to his too. Just in case I ever need it. Mine is not grayed out now either. That should work. Ain't having all the options neat? Even if you have to recompile things a lot. ;-) Dale :-) :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS problem
Yes. Even installed as hplip, when jobs are printed, they are immediately marked as stopped in the jobs interface. There is no indication that the printer is on line at all, except that it shows up as Ready. Thank you, Alan On Jan 7, 2008 10:24 AM, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alan E. Davis wrote: I have installed two or three times, deleted /etc/cups and reinstalled the printer. It showed up as an HPLIP device when installing, w/ CUPS and/or the kde printer utility. NOtably the utility OR the localhost:631 interface did not show any option for a USB printer. The address that ended up being used was a usb:printername. When I get gentoo booted up I'll look at it again. For now, I have to print, so I've installed Ubuntu on another partition. Printing works fine there, so that's a start. Thank you, Alan On Jan 7, 2008 2:48 AM, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 06 January 2008, Dale wrote: Alan E. Davis wrote: Any ideas? I ran into something similar to the a while back and I had to un-merge cups, delete the config files, then reemerge cups and reconfigure my printer. Keep in mind that when you unmerge something, the config files remain in /etc unchanged. Assuming that you have set the correct device in the GUI for your printer, then the most likely error is that your have not provided the correct path for it. Show us what you have defined the path as in case we can help. -- Regards, Mick They recently changed it over to hplip. Is that installed on your system? Dale :-) :-) -- Alan Davis, Kagman High School, Saipan [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never a matter of liking or disliking ... ---Santa Ynez Chumash Medicine Man -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge inforamtion
Just adding something. Since the package is already installed, you can type: equery u net-print/hplip It should give you a description of what each USE flag means. And it works with every package. If you get a command not found error, emerge gentoolkit to get the equery program :) Regards, Raphael 2006/3/30, Teresa and Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: USE flags doubts (again). If I run this command: emerge -pv hplip the output is: [ebuild R ] net-print/hplip-0.9.7-r3 +X +cups +foomaticdb -ppds +qt +scanner* -snmp +usb 0 kB There are 5 flags prefixed by a plus and red coloured (+X, +cups, +foomaticdb, +qt and +usb). These flags are already set. Right? The plus sign means that it will be compiled with support for that flag. It means you can use that basically. There are 2 flags prefixed by a menus and blue coloured (-ppds and -snmp). These flags are not set. But, should I set them? It depends on whether you will use them or not. This is what that flag is for: ppds - Adds support for automatically generated ppd (printing driver) files. If you need it, edit make.conf file and put it in the USE= line. The snmp is this: snmp - Adds support for the Simple Network Management Protocol if available. You can get the same info from here: /usr/portage/profiles/use.desc Finally there is anoter flag prefixed by a plus and green coloured (+scanner*). What does the trailing * mean? What does the green colour mean? Thank you a lot in advance. emilio If I recall correctly, that * means it has been changed since the program was instaled. If you changed some flags recently, you may want to do a emerge -Nvp world to see what else has changed. If everything looks OK, take off the p and let it recompile those for you so it will work correctly. Hope that helps. Dale :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Finally, the bell rings.
Ted Ozolins wrote: After emerging hplip you will notice info re: ppds. If I'm not mistaken, emerging hplip without the ppds USE flag will not create the ppd files needed. Once you emerge hplip with the ppds USE flag the ppd files will be created. Then when you go to set-up your printer in CUPS, your printer will be listed. I'm not sure if PSC 1410 is listed, checking hp.com I noticed that the driver file (winxp) for PSC 1410 and 1510 is the same file. If 1410 isn't listed try the 1510. HTH I looked in mine and it goes from 1310 to 1600. You can dig around on either the HP site or Cups site and get the exact one or one that is really close. It will tell you where to put it to so it will show up. I had to do that with my HP DeskJet 3820 at first. It's just a text file that gives cups all the options for the printer. Oh, in my USE line I have hpijs and ppds. I think that is all I changed on mine. If you change yours, do a emerge -Nvp world to recompile with those options. Hope that helps. If you need me to I may can dig around and find that file for you. Dale :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] hplip recompiled with scanner use flag now scanning works, printing does not.
Hello Daniel Contents of /etc/udev/rules.d: 40-hplip.rules 70-persistent-cd.rules 56-hpmud_support.rules 70-persistent-net.rules 64-device-mapper.rules 77-nm-probe-modem-capabilities.rules 70-libgphoto2.rules 90-hal.rules 70-libsane.rules91-usb_modeswitch.rules What was asked for: hp-scan [ok] xsane [ok] scanimage [ok] xscanimage [ok] Although not asked for, and it is obvious: printing [failed] I did not see your *explanation* of how the udev rules mv changes things. I only know *what* happens, not *why*. Regardless, I appreciate your help and seek to learn why the udev rules were preventing me from printing. Thanks ubiquitous1980 On 24/04/10 17:21, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: ubiquitous1980 schrieb am 24.04.2010 07:29: why has moving /etc/udev/rules.d/40-hplip.rules to /etc/udev/rules.d/71-hplip.rules and /etc/udev/rules.d/55-hpmud_support.rules to /etc/udev/rules.d/71-hpmud_support.rules changed the group from scanner to lp for file: /dev/bus/usb/005/005 and allowed my printer to work? Look at my previous post where I explained this. Also there should be no need to move /etc/udev/rules.d/55-hpmud_support.rules. Can you please tell me which application are you using for scanning. hp-scan included in the hplip package, xane, scanimage included in sane-backends or xscanimage included in sane-frontends. I would appreciate it if you could try is scanning fails with all of the above applications if the rules files are not moved. Especially if it just fails with the hp-scan program or also with the other applications not shipped by hplip. Thanks in advance.
Re: [gentoo-user] HPLIP plugin file
On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 3:38 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 19 Sep 2011 00:13:32 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: What printer do you have. I use foo2zjs with a LaserJet 1022 and thought it was the only way, not that it causes me any problems. I have the LaserJer 1020, foo2zjs used to be the only way to print for me, too; by chance, I was looking at HPLIP the other day and saw 1020 was now in the supported printers list (it wasn't when I bought the printer). Looks like 1022 is there, too. That's worth looking at, AFAICT the 1020 and 1022 are basically the same. Do you have any particular objection to foo2zjs or is it just an OCD attitude to not having unnecessary packages installed? It never worked easily for me, I always had to spend 45 minutes screwing around with the printer to get anything to come out. Conflicts with usblp module. Also, the installation process left some things to be desired (e.g. foo2zjs webpage explicitly states not to use distributions packages and to install it manually instead). Basically it was always a hassle for me. HPLIP is an official (and supported?) driver and seems to have all the features that the Windows printer drivers have, which foo2zjs didn't necessarily do (or do as easily). More importantly, it worked right the first time I tried it. :)
Re: [gentoo-user] printing problems
On Mon, Nov 02, 2015 at 05:01:26PM -0800, Daniel Frey wrote: > On 11/02/2015 04:46 PM, Philip Webb wrote: > > 151101 Daniel Frey wrote: > >> I had so many problems with hplip I stopped using it. I found another way > >> to use my hp CP1025nw with foomatic and that works trouble-free. > > > > Don't be coy ! -- What did you actually do which works (smile) ? > > > > It's a driver for Laserjet printers, it won't work on deskjets AFAIK. > The driver is foo2zjs: http://foo2zjs.rkkda.com/ - it relies on > ghostscript. I used to use foo2zjs happily many a year ago. But then it vanished from portage and I never got it working again. > I looked and it looks like that won't help you. I had so many problems > with hplip randomly stopping working and refusing to reinstall I gave up > on printing for six months before I found foo2zjs. What I found out is that the plugin hplip downloads for my laserjet 1000 is a self-extracting archive running on python2, but it does not state a python version. So if your system python is set to v3, the plugin intall will fail with only an “I failed” message. Once I switched to python 2, it ran through. *shrug* A few days ago I couldn’t get my printer to print more than one page in a go. It just stops after the first page. Luckily, I have a virtual Ubuntu which I originally set up just out of curiosity, but now acts as my printing client, because it just works™. If I find the time, I will go through the tips of this thread myself. PS.: The printer is from 2004, and only now the toner, which is the one I bought with the printer – is getting weaker. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla’ Please do not share anything from, with or about me on any social network. Why do Java developers wear glasses? – Because they don’t C#. signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] The hopeless futility of printing.
On Monday, 29 January 2024 18:19:19 GMT Alan Grimes wrote: > It's a LaserJet Pro M453-4. You shouldn't need hplip drivers and what not, IPP Everywhere ought to allow driverless CUPS to allow you to print: https://www.pwg.org/printers/ > When I was shopping for it, there was a $350 model with wireless, and a > $450 model without wireless, I was like OMG, i DON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT > WIRELESS??? SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!!! Aw, the drama of it all! o_O > Apparently there is a stack of about twenty baroque, fiddly, obscure, > and broken demons and libraries that all must work together perfectly to > get the darn thing to work. Each of those packages are advertised as > being the epitome of convenience and plug-and-play perfection except > they don't work, at all... It's well past the point of being pointful > to mess with it. Even if I got it working today, It would be broken > tomorrow in such a way that I'd have no hope of diagnosing or fixing it. =| Read these pages to get to grips with the basics for CUPS: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Printing (No need for USE="zeroconf" if you prefer static IP addresses in your LAN) Then check this page to try out the IPP everywhere driver: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Driverless_printing Finally, if IPP Everywhere fails to connect and print, try the old hplip driver: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/HPLIP HTH. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Network printing
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 7:39 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: Hello, As it's the New Year, perhaps it's time to resume banging my head on this wall again. I have a server with two printers connected, set up using the cups Web page and operating properly. Now I want to send print jobs to them from my workstation, which is on the same network, and with the same version of cups: 1.3.9-r1. One of the printers is an HP Deskjet D4260, so I also have hplip version 2.8.6b installed on both machines. I can connect either printer to either machine and print locally without any problems. However, I cannot get anything to print over the network. If, on the workstation, I declare the network laser printer and connect to it, all appears to work until I send a print job to it; the job sits in the lp queue locally, and when I next look at the status of the printer it says Destination printer does not exist! If I try to set up the Deskjet as a remote printer in the local cups server, I get Filter foomatic-rip for printer HP_Deskjet_D4260 not available: No such file or directory. I don't know what to try next. Anyone any idea here? -- Rgds Peter Hi Peter, For the sake of conversation how about emerge flags? My server: Sector9 ~ # emerge -pv cups hplip These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] net-print/cups-1.3.9-r1 USE=X acl dbus jpeg ldap pam perl png ppds python samba ssl tiff -avahi -gnutls -java -kerberos -php -slp -static -xinetd -zeroconf LINGUAS=en -de -es -et -fr -he -id -it -ja -pl -sv -zh_TW 0 kB [ebuild R ] net-print/hplip-2.8.6b USE=dbus ppds qt3 qt4 -cupsddk -doc -fax -minimal -parport -scanner -snmp 0 kB One of my clients: dragonfly ~ # emerge -pv cups hplip These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] net-print/cups-1.3.9-r1 USE=X acl dbus jpeg ldap pam perl png ppds python ssl tiff -avahi -gnutls -java -kerberos -php -samba -slp -static -xinetd -zeroconf LINGUAS=en -de -es -et -fr -he -id -it -ja -pl -sv -zh_TW 0 kB [ebuild R ] net-print/hplip-2.8.6b USE=dbus ppds qt3 qt4 -cupsddk -doc -fax -minimal -parport -scanner -snmp 0 kB I can send config files again if you need them but they haven't changed in the few weeks since you looked at this. Cheers, Mark
Re: [gentoo-user] printing problems
Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 03/11/2015 18:05, Dale wrote: >> >> >> I don't know if this will help or not but since you seem to be grasping >> at straws, grab this one and hold on for dear life. For the longest >> time, every time hplip, cups and friends were updated, I had to delete >> and readd my printer. If I didn't, printing was not going to happen, >> period. I might also add, I'd restart cups just to be sure, after the >> delete and again after the readd. Once I did that, printing worked like >> a charm. If I didn't know better, I'd think the ink lasted longer too. >> ROFL Just kidding but . . . . If nothing else works, may want to try >> that. >> >> Oh, the last time I did the setup, I ignored cups completely. I went in >> as root and set up the printer using the hplip command. That was at >> least a couple years ago. Since then, whenever I get ready to print, >> and replace the dried out cartridges, it just works. I have a D4260, >> currently out of ink, again. >> >> I think the actual command is hp-setup. I use KDE and that opens a GUI >> to do the set up. Generally, it is just clicking next. It just seems >> to figure out the rest itself, unless you have more than one printer >> hooked up then you may have to select something. >> >> None of this may help but maybe one will. May be worth a shot. ;-) > That's my experience too. I print very little by for ages now everytime > a change was made to a printer or cups (even teeny minor ones), I'd > delete and re-add all printers plus restart cups. > > Why does cups behave like this? Buggered if I know. I have an > unexpressable opinion based on a certain fruity vendor who seems better > at suing Samsung than actually writing code > > For some reason, cups just doesn't like HP, at least in my case. I've had that problem for ages until a couple years or so ago. I always used cups to setup and mange the printer. After getting enough of it one day, I stopped cups. I then set up the printer with hplip. It took less than a minute to do to, just keep clicking next for me. After I did that, I don't think I have had to delete/readd the printer since. I know I have updated both cups and hplip too, likely several times. No telling what has been updated that they depend on. Maybe I got lucky or maybe just not using cups works. Odd thing is, when I rebooted later, cups started automatically and the printer still works and the printer shows up in cups. It's been working ever since. So, kick cups out of the way, set it up using only hplip stuff and see what happens. Heck, it just may work. :/ Now if I can just get Seamonkey and Firefox to stop defaulting to English (United Kingdom) instead of English (United States) I'll be even happier. o_O Dale :-) :-) P. S. I got my elcheapo ebay cartridges today. It still prints fine. :-D Oooo, pretty colors too.
Re: [gentoo-user] printing problems
On Tuesday, November 03, 2015 10:38:18 PM Dale wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On 03/11/2015 18:05, Dale wrote: > >> I don't know if this will help or not but since you seem to be grasping > >> at straws, grab this one and hold on for dear life. For the longest > >> time, every time hplip, cups and friends were updated, I had to delete > >> and readd my printer. If I didn't, printing was not going to happen, > >> period. I might also add, I'd restart cups just to be sure, after the > >> delete and again after the readd. Once I did that, printing worked like > >> a charm. If I didn't know better, I'd think the ink lasted longer too. > >> ROFL Just kidding but . . . . If nothing else works, may want to try > >> that. > >> > >> Oh, the last time I did the setup, I ignored cups completely. I went in > >> as root and set up the printer using the hplip command. That was at > >> least a couple years ago. Since then, whenever I get ready to print, > >> and replace the dried out cartridges, it just works. I have a D4260, > >> currently out of ink, again. > >> > >> I think the actual command is hp-setup. I use KDE and that opens a GUI > >> to do the set up. Generally, it is just clicking next. It just seems > >> to figure out the rest itself, unless you have more than one printer > >> hooked up then you may have to select something. > >> > >> None of this may help but maybe one will. May be worth a shot. ;-) > > > > That's my experience too. I print very little by for ages now everytime > > a change was made to a printer or cups (even teeny minor ones), I'd > > delete and re-add all printers plus restart cups. > > > > Why does cups behave like this? Buggered if I know. I have an > > unexpressable opinion based on a certain fruity vendor who seems better > > at suing Samsung than actually writing code > > For some reason, cups just doesn't like HP, at least in my case. I've > had that problem for ages until a couple years or so ago. I always used > cups to setup and mange the printer. After getting enough of it one > day, I stopped cups. I then set up the printer with hplip. It took > less than a minute to do to, just keep clicking next for me. After I > did that, I don't think I have had to delete/readd the printer since. I > know I have updated both cups and hplip too, likely several times. No > telling what has been updated that they depend on. > > Maybe I got lucky or maybe just not using cups works. Odd thing is, > when I rebooted later, cups started automatically and the printer still > works and the printer shows up in cups. It's been working ever since. > So, kick cups out of the way, set it up using only hplip stuff and see > what happens. Heck, it just may work. :/ > > Now if I can just get Seamonkey and Firefox to stop defaulting to > English (United Kingdom) instead of English (United States) I'll be even > happier. o_O > > Dale > > :-) :-) > > P. S. I got my elcheapo ebay cartridges today. It still prints fine. > > :-D Oooo, pretty colors too. Same here. I use hp-setup to configure the printer once and then it "just works" without further thinking. (Apart from having to switch it on) I stopped using inkjet/deskjet/... printers years ago after having another one ruined by dried up ink. Currently happily using a laserprinter with a network-cable :) -- Joost
Re: [gentoo-user] Quick check on net-print/hplip-3.14.10
On Thursday 17 Sep 2015 08:12:56 Dale wrote: > Mick wrote: > > On Wednesday 16 Sep 2015 23:43:51 Dale wrote: > >> Mick wrote: > >>> Hi All, > >>> > >>> I just noticed that the driver for my old printer no longer shows up in > >>> cups, on one of my PCs. Comparison with other PCs shows that this one > >>> does *not* have the hpijs USE set. > >>> > >>> Could someone who also does not have hpijs set in their hplip tell me > >>> if the HP DeskJet 930C selection is missing, when they load up the GUI > >>> via https://127.0.0.1:631 and then try to modify a printer? > >>> > >>> Until this week there wasn't a problem with this PC so I am not sure > >>> what changed ... > >>> > >>> I've set it up with DeskJet 932c for now without USE=hpijs and it seems > >>> to work, so I am in two minds if I need hpijs or if I need to use the > >>> 930c driver anyway. > >> > >> I was going to try and test this. I try to help when ever I can. Thing > >> is, the way CUPS works here, you have to have the printer connected to > >> set it up. I can't find a option to set up a printer that is not > >> connected during the set up process. Maybe I am missing something. o_O > >> > >> Maybe someone else who has that printer can test it. We hope. > >> > >> Dale > >> > >> :-) :-) > > > > Thank you Dale, > > > > You don't have to complete the setup of the printer. Just select Modify > > printer and 'try' to change its driver from the dropdown selection. You > > don't need to actually change it - just look in there if DeskJet 930c is > > listed. Assuming of course that your hplip was compiled with > > USE="-hpijs". > > > > My 930C is a USB printer, but I have a little ethernet to USB printer > > server that I access it through. This is a monodirectional lpd server, > > so all the hplip GUI to report printer status is not working. It > > doesn't bother me as printing is a rare occasion and all users know what > > to do if it runs out of ink. > > > > Printing was all working fine on this PC until a couple of days ago, so I > > wonder if I removed something in /etc/portage/* to cause this ... > > I get the same option just trying to modify my current printer. It > doesn't list anything, it just shows the printer I currently have set > up. Even if I tell it I want to add another printer, it still shows my > current printer. I can't find a way to get it to list them. Maybe it > is a setting somewhere that I have that makes mine work different. > > Dale > > :-) :-) OK, I managed to get 10 minutes access to the offending box and I remerged hplip. Guess what? The 930c driver re-appeared on the list. So I am now doubly paranoid that the btrfs is playing up ... -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Quick check on net-print/hplip-3.14.10
On 17/09/2015 19:36, Mick wrote: > On Thursday 17 Sep 2015 08:12:56 Dale wrote: >> Mick wrote: >>> On Wednesday 16 Sep 2015 23:43:51 Dale wrote: >>>> Mick wrote: >>>>> Hi All, >>>>> >>>>> I just noticed that the driver for my old printer no longer shows up in >>>>> cups, on one of my PCs. Comparison with other PCs shows that this one >>>>> does *not* have the hpijs USE set. >>>>> >>>>> Could someone who also does not have hpijs set in their hplip tell me >>>>> if the HP DeskJet 930C selection is missing, when they load up the GUI >>>>> via https://127.0.0.1:631 and then try to modify a printer? >>>>> >>>>> Until this week there wasn't a problem with this PC so I am not sure >>>>> what changed ... >>>>> >>>>> I've set it up with DeskJet 932c for now without USE=hpijs and it seems >>>>> to work, so I am in two minds if I need hpijs or if I need to use the >>>>> 930c driver anyway. >>>> >>>> I was going to try and test this. I try to help when ever I can. Thing >>>> is, the way CUPS works here, you have to have the printer connected to >>>> set it up. I can't find a option to set up a printer that is not >>>> connected during the set up process. Maybe I am missing something. o_O >>>> >>>> Maybe someone else who has that printer can test it. We hope. >>>> >>>> Dale >>>> >>>> :-) :-) >>> >>> Thank you Dale, >>> >>> You don't have to complete the setup of the printer. Just select Modify >>> printer and 'try' to change its driver from the dropdown selection. You >>> don't need to actually change it - just look in there if DeskJet 930c is >>> listed. Assuming of course that your hplip was compiled with >>> USE="-hpijs". >>> >>> My 930C is a USB printer, but I have a little ethernet to USB printer >>> server that I access it through. This is a monodirectional lpd server, >>> so all the hplip GUI to report printer status is not working. It >>> doesn't bother me as printing is a rare occasion and all users know what >>> to do if it runs out of ink. >>> >>> Printing was all working fine on this PC until a couple of days ago, so I >>> wonder if I removed something in /etc/portage/* to cause this ... >> >> I get the same option just trying to modify my current printer. It >> doesn't list anything, it just shows the printer I currently have set >> up. Even if I tell it I want to add another printer, it still shows my >> current printer. I can't find a way to get it to list them. Maybe it >> is a setting somewhere that I have that makes mine work different. >> >> Dale >> >> :-) :-) > > OK, I managed to get 10 minutes access to the offending box and I remerged > hplip. Guess what? The 930c driver re-appeared on the list. So I am now > doubly paranoid that the btrfs is playing up ... > Or, someone deleted the ppd and the re-emerge put it back :-) As the saying goes "never ascribe to malice what is adequately explained by stupidity" -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS problem
I think this is one of those multifactorial problems, and I'm unable to pin down the exact cause. I did several things that might have conspired to make printing stop working. I have a new motherboard, M2N-E, from ASUS, with a dual core AMD64-X2 processor (dual core), that has given me fits booting. I moved to the new motherboard after having compiled a first approximation to an SMP kernel with support for features and hardware I know about, then at last I tried a world update, after I'd been using gentoo for a few days. I had been printing all this time. My initial investigations (ie, google) revealed a large number of problems with the motherboard involving APIC or ACPI. Both, I think. Other problems mentioned were SATA, and I saw more than one reference to USB. USB and SATA are now sharing an interrrupt with that gentoo boot. When attempting to print or set up printing with CUPS: the printer shows up in CUPS as HPLIP. I had another printer on USB, and while I recall always CUPS showed me USB printers, both, as choices for found printers, no solely USB entries were seen. The other printer now has burned up in what I hope was a disconnected incident, a Brother HL1440, the fan burned out. I can install the HP multifunction as the HPLIP printer, and it shows as ready, but when I print, no printer action happens, and the jobs are immediately marked as stopped. I suspect some USB foibles, but the flash drives work fine. I recompiled with usblp as a module and compiled in, and several times recompiled, but got stuck in a place where I couldn't see a way out. When attempting to boot to that kernel, or other gentoo kernels I have compiled around (I do not use initrd/genkernel), almost every time since the initial boot (that went ok), the machine locks up during boot. It might take three or four attempts, but the machine locks up somewhere during the process. After cupsd has been started, somewhere around where syslog-ng is started, or hal, the machine locks. The next boot it stops ate approximately the same place, or perhaps further along. Finally, usually three or four boots later, it boots and no further problems are experienced. Partly because I needed to print, and partly to rule out hardware issues, I booted ubuntu 7.10, and installed. No problem has been encountered over the past few days of using ubuntu. I can print, and no lockups are encountered (so far, KOW). This is distressing. I enjoy not having to fiddle around, not spending so much time maintaining the system, and it's almost lightning quick to install packages!. Perhaps I'll use Ubuntu for a while---but I'd sure like to solve this problem. I just tried an incantation (kernel parameter) that had been recommended somewhere. (noapic nolapic acpi=off pci=noacpi), but still got the same behavior. Sometime soon I'll try to recompile the kernel or back down to 2.6.22. (I'd only compiled 2.6.23 for this new motherboard). I thank several list denizens for suggestions. I apologize for taking so much time in explaining this again, but I'd really appreciate any suggestions, before I become more committed to using Ubuntu. Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Jan 8, 2008 7:56 PM, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 07 January 2008, Dale wrote: Randy Barlow wrote: Dale wrote: On my system hpijs was a blocker if I recall correctly. I read somewhere that hpijs was no longer being maintained and that hplip was the new thing to use. Not sure why tho. Also may be worth noting that hplip used to be a service that was started as well. /etc/init.d/hplip start used to work. The latest update got rid of the service and I guess it just runs when it is needed. I should clarify my question a bit more. I don't have the hpijs package installed. I do have hplip. Yet when I try to select the driver for my printer, hpijs is the only option of the two. I know that hplip includes hpijs, but I was looking for a driver called hplip and didn't see it... Did you run hp-setup? You may want to re-emerge hplip and read the messages there. I may be forgetting something it said to do. Also, check your error logs. Should be in /var/log. Depends on what logger you use as to the name of it. Mine is messages tho. Post back what you find out from that. May give us a clue. Dale :-) :-) What happens if under Device, you select: HP Printer (HPLIP) ? Also, have a look at http://localhost:631/help/network.html for defining the path (for network printers). However, I don't want to send you off scent here because I have not set up a USB printer before, so I am not sure what steps ought to be followed (if udev rules are desired and what not). I would have thought that guidance in this http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/printing-howto.xml#usb ought to help. -- Regards, Mick -- Alan Davis, Kagman High School, Saipan [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never a matter of liking or disliking
Re: [gentoo-user] Network printing
On Tuesday 06 January 2009 17:04:57 Mark Knecht wrote: For the sake of conversation how about emerge flags? My server: [ebuild R ] net-print/cups-1.3.9-r1 USE=X acl dbus jpeg ldap pam perl png ppds python samba ssl tiff -avahi -gnutls -java -kerberos -php -slp -static -xinetd -zeroconf LINGUAS=en -de -es -et -fr -he -id -it -ja -pl -sv -zh_TW 0 kB [ebuild R ] net-print/hplip-2.8.6b USE=dbus ppds qt3 qt4 -cupsddk -doc -fax -minimal -parport -scanner -snmp 0 kB Mine: [ebuild R ] net-print/cups-1.3.9-r1 USE=acl dbus jpeg pam perl png python ssl tiff -X -avahi -gnutls -java -kerberos -ldap -php -ppds -samba -slp -static -xinetd -zeroconf LINGUAS=en -de -es -et -fr -he -id -it -ja -pl -sv -zh_TW [ebuild R ] net-print/hplip-2.8.6b USE=cupsddk dbus doc -fax -minimal -parport -ppds -qt3 -qt4 -scanner -snmp I don't have X set because X is not installed on this server. I may install it later. I have cupsddk instead of ppds because hplip's ppds USE flag description says it is obsolete and I should use cupsddk instead. One of my clients: [ebuild R ] net-print/cups-1.3.9-r1 USE=X acl dbus jpeg ldap pam perl png ppds python ssl tiff -avahi -gnutls -java -kerberos -php -samba -slp -static -xinetd -zeroconf LINGUAS=en -de -es -et -fr -he -id -it -ja -pl -sv -zh_TW 0 kB [ebuild R ] net-print/hplip-2.8.6b USE=dbus ppds qt3 qt4 -cupsddk -doc -fax -minimal -parport -scanner -snmp 0 kB Mine: [ebuild R ] net-print/cups-1.3.9-r1 USE=X acl dbus jpeg pam perl png python ssl tiff -avahi -gnutls -java -kerberos -ldap -php -ppds -samba -slp -static -xinetd -zeroconf LINGUAS=en -de -es -et -fr -he -id -it -ja -pl -sv -zh_TW [ebuild R ] net-print/hplip-2.8.6b USE=cupsddk dbus doc qt3 -fax -minimal -parport -ppds -qt4 -scanner -snmp The same comment re cupsddk applies on this machine. On Tuesday 06 January 2009 18:44:46 BRM wrote: 1) Modify '/etc/cups/client.conf' and tell it where the server is. If I do that, will I lose the ability to connect the printer to the client? Surely, cups ought to be able to operate with more than one server, no? Otherwise, what do all those offices do that have printers connected to several workstations and share them all around? 2) Configure LP: - use lpstat to see the available printers Do you have a reason for preferring these two programs to the cups Web interface? On the client, lpstat lists all four: the laser and the deskjet, each defined both locally and on the server. I see no reports of any problems. - use lpoptions to set the default printer Is it necessary to declare a default printer to cups? I thought I'd let applications set their own defaults, so that for instance the Deskjet gets coloured work and the laser gets word-processor output etc. I believe you only need HPLIP on the server side, not the client side. But having it there shouldn't do any harm. It's installed on the client so that I can print locally until I get network printing working. I assume that cups on the client will communicate via ipp with cups on the server, whatever printer driver is installed between cups and the printer. (I believe that the DJ4260 doesn't use the traditional HP printer control language, so I'm obliged to use hplip.) -- Rgds Peter
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trying to set up HP printer with foo2zjs
On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 03:12:06PM +, James wrote: Sorry, reply took a while. Got lots of different stuff going on right now. cups + hplip is pretty robust. Mostly because I want a minimal system. I have cups already which KDE can use, I don’t need (or want) another tool that does the same job and that has a lot of GUI stuff that my printer doesn’t support anyway (scanners and such). […] So you have compiled these before, with a minimum of flags activated? I had been using it for years on my machines that use the printer. I can’t remember ever having looked at its use flags, though. The know the number of flags, the smaller the binaries. (as you know). Furthermore, it installs a tool which I don’t need and pollutes my tray and which has no off-switch. Tries to deactivate it in the past had not succeeded (as I said, non-technical reasons). Ah, kde frustration? Been there, left that constant_change environment. Personally, I would not use kde as part of my printing solution. Because you don’t use KDE (which is in no way meant as a negative). While I find the possibility to print from anywhere including the commandline neat (I was a Windows-only noob until my early 20s), I never actually needed it. Cups + hplip work fine without kde involvement. But as a KDE user, this time I *want* to use KDE, because I get a consistent print interface in all applications (oh well, 95 % of my printouts are PDFs from Okular). Of course I can still use KDE’s solution even with hplip installed. But there is still the hp tool in the tray for the exact same thing, wasting space. My mind just works in strange ways and is simply bothered by that fact. Plus, I dislike vendor-specific software on principle. :o) Also, with every update it wants to download the proprietary plugin anew (which I had trouble with in the past b/c I did offline updates) or else no printo worko. OK, so mask the offending codes? I don’t quite follow. The printer needs a binary firmware uploaded each time it is connected to the computer. This comes as a binary “plugin” which is downloaded by hp-setup. And for some reason this plugin file is only compatible with a single hplip version, hence the new download after each update. The plugin file is actually a shellscript that has a tarball embedded in base64. This tar contains the actual install files and a python2 script which does not advertise its version in the shebang. I just tested it on my old netbook which already had hplip isntalled. If I have python 3 active, all I get at some point is Plugin install failed during printer setup. So I switch to python2, rinse and repeat and then the installation works. Incidentally when installing hplip, the ebuild does lots of Fixing shebang on a lot of python files (I had to reinstall b/c a useflag was missing). Did you have a ppd file setup via cups? (/etc/cups/ppd) YOu mave have a copy of the old ppd config file in the cups/ppd dir? Right now I have a single PPD in that location which originated from foo2zjs. Obviously it comes from setting up the printer in cpus, b/c it is named after the printer’s cups name. What is your computer-printer interface? (usb/eth/par/ser/rf)? USB. -- Made in mid-2002, the printer itself has a parallel port, but came with (and only with) a USB converter cable so it actually hooks up to the computer over USB. Do have sys-apps/hwids installed? Yep. On a side note, you may want to try lxqt-0.8.0 in a few weeks, when it is released. I had a look at it a few months ago but found it yet unusable due to missing functionality (e.g. couldn’t find where to set number of virtual desktops). -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla’ Please do not share anything from, with or about me with any Facebook service. “Your code is shit.. your argument is shit.” – Linus Torvalds, linux.kernel signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo rebuild, cups won't work
On Feb 2, 2008 1:01 PM, Dave Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Kevin Kevin O'Gorman wrote on 02/02/08 19:31: I've installed cups and hplip. I cannot follow the Gentoo printing guide, because that worthy document requires me to add hplip to the default runlevel, but hplip does not put anything in /etc/init.d. My printer is an old HP Laserjet 4M, which I usually run as a Postscrpt printer. What have I missed? Run hp-setup You'll probably need to rework your cups config files if you've retained them from the broken install. hp-setup should enable local printing OK. And if it still gives you problems, delete /etc/cups then reemerge cups. I had to do that last part too. The problem is that my printer is on the LPT port (/dev/lp0), and hp-setup does not find it. In fact it has an option for LPT printers, but it is greyed out. The printer is really there: I can print by cat printme /dev/lp0 with a suitably formed printme file (lines need CR, file ends with ^L^D). Hmmm. Digging slightly deeper, I found the /usr/bin/hp-probe program. It lets me specifically request a probe of LPT, but finds nothing there. The printer remains attached. I'm even more deeply stumped than before. Try: hp-setup -i /dev/parport0 See if that helps. Try hp-setup -hfor other options. I take it that your kernel has parallel port support generated, and that you have file permission to access /dev/lp0 ? Cheers, Dave -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list It runs, but only gives me options for usb and net. This makes some sense since there are no /dev/parport* entries in my system. Nevertheless, I have parallel port support as I understand it. From my kernel (2.6.22-gentoo-r6) .config file: # # Generic Driver Options # CONFIG_STANDALONE=y CONFIG_PREVENT_FIRMWARE_BUILD=y CONFIG_FW_LOADER=m # CONFIG_SYS_HYPERVISOR is not set # CONFIG_CONNECTOR is not set # CONFIG_MTD is not set CONFIG_PARPORT=yparallel port CONFIG_PARPORT_PC=y PC style # CONFIG_PARPORT_SERIAL is not set # CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_FIFO is not set # CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_SUPERIO is not set # CONFIG_PARPORT_GSC is not set # CONFIG_PARPORT_AX88796 is not set CONFIG_PARPORT_1284=y CONFIG_PNP=y # CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG is not set Thanks for the help. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
Re: [gentoo-user] Network printing
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 3:45 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Wednesday 24 December 2008 10:45:58 Mick wrote: It could still be a machine naming issue if you are pointing your client to e.g. http://192.168.2.2:631 instead of http://serv.ethnet:631 - which is what I suspect the SSL certificate's CN record shows. (There's always one more detail that gets forgotten.) I am pointing my client to serv.ethnet, not any IP address. It decides for itself, part-way through setting-up the printer, that it's now connected to a different host from before. Either way - if you disable authentication with SSL this problem will go away. - but remain unsolved. Thanks anyway. -- Rgds Peter Hi Peter, Sorry that I'm not much involved in this thread. I'm traveling and trying to catch up so I'm reading on a laptop screen. I'm a bit out of touch. I'm having a bit of a hard time understanding your setup. How many machines are you working with? Is this home and it's a couple of machines, or is it a work environment where there might be other strange bits of hardware in between that could be filtering and/or applying rules of some unknown type? Is the printer an HP (hplip was mentioned) and if so why use the PPD file from linuxprinting.org at all? For my simple home setup I didn't need to do that with hplip installed on each machine. (Cups server as well as Linux clients) I'm actually visiting my parents where my dad just purchased an HP 1522nf printer. It's connected to his Linux box using USB. hplip more or less automatically made the printer available to the Gentoo machines on the network so I didn't have to do anything to gt them printer. since I'm on my Vista-based laptop I thought I'd try printing from here. I created a new printer, pointed the laptop at http://192.168.1.2:631/printers/HP_1522nf and then let Windows find it. Once it did I had to choose the wrong driver as I don't have one for the 1522, so I chose one for a 1300 series laserjet, asked Windows to print the test page, and out popped a printed page. If you cannot make headway then I'm wondering if maybe you shouldn't go back to basics. Drop the SSL stuff, connect to the IP address directly, get it working, and then investigate adding these other things in until something breaks? Whatever you do, and to everyone else reading, best wishes for the Holiday Season. Let's hope for peace. Cheers, Mark
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CUPS - Some apps see printers, some do not
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 7:53 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 02/23/2010 06:23 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I'm looking around in vain for info on why some apps (Open Office apps for instance) see printers while other apps (Evolution and Firefox for instance) do not. Apps that don't work seem to offer print to file and print to LPR. On the other hand Open Office provides only the obscenely ugly CUPS printer name HP_LaserJet_M1522nf_MFP_192.168.1.5. Ugly? I think it's quite fetching, really. Are you sure you're a real computer nerd? I have an HP LaserJet 3015 that works with everything in my gnome DE, but IIRC I struggled until I discovered the net-print/hplip package, which is the opensource driver supplied by HP. It does everything including faxing, printing, and high-res color scanning all from my HP multi-function printer. Does your dad's machine have that package installed and configured? Yes, version 3.9.12-r1 is installed but I'm not totally sure I'm using the driver it supplied. gandalf ~ # emerge -pv hplip These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] net-print/hplip-3.9.12-r1 USE=gtk hpcups libnotify qt4 -doc -fax -hpijs -minimal -new-hpcups -parport -policykit -scanner -snmp -static-ppds -udev-acl 0 kB Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB * IMPORTANT: 1 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'. * Use eselect news to read news items. gandalf ~ # # Printer configuration file for CUPS v1.3.11 # Written by cupsd on 2010-02-23 11:32 Printer HP_LaserJet_M1522nf_MFP_192.168.1.5 Info HP LaserJet M1522nf MFP Location Local Printer DeviceURI socket://192.168.1.5 State Idle StateTime 1266953458 Accepting Yes Shared Yes JobSheets none none QuotaPeriod 0 PageLimit 0 KLimit 0 OpPolicy default ErrorPolicy stop-printer /Printer Again, I figured it was working because Open Office finds it without any trouble, but his Gnome account doesn't. (Nor does mine actually - I cannot print from Firefox in my account either.) Thanks, Mark
[gentoo-user] @system updated but @word is an issue!
Hi people! I finally managed to update my @system profile completly. Now I want to update world, and I see that certain packages require python_single_target_python2_7 or python_single_target_python3_2 I don't know how to change my make.conf that everything fits, that I can update my entire machine without any problems. My make.conf: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=sy80W4Xh When I set PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET to PYTHON2_7 I get this: !!! The ebuild selected to satisfy media-sound/rhythmbox has unmet requirements. - media-sound/rhythmbox-3.0.1::gentoo USE=cdr dbus libnotify libsecret python udev -daap -html -ipod -lirc -mtp -nsplugin -test -upnp-av -visualizer -webkit -zeitgeist PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET=-python3_2 -python3_3 PYTHON_TARGETS=python3_2 -python3_3 The following REQUIRED_USE flag constraints are unsatisfied: python? ( exactly-one-of ( python_single_target_python3_2 python_single_target_python3_3 ) ) The above constraints are a subset of the following complete expression: ipod? ( udev ) mtp? ( udev ) dbus? ( python ) webkit? ( python ) python? ( python_single_target_python3_2? ( python_targets_python3_2 ) python_single_target_python3_3? ( python_targets_python3_3 ) exactly-one-of ( python_single_target_python3_2 python_single_target_python3_3 ) ) (dependency required by @selected [set]) (dependency required by @world [argument]) * IMPORTANT: 1 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'. * Use eselect news to read news items. and when I set to PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET to PYTHON3_2: !!! Problem resolving dependencies for net-print/hplip from @selected ... done! !!! The ebuild selected to satisfy net-print/hplip has unmet requirements. - net-print/hplip-3.14.1::gentoo USE=X fax hpcups libnotify libusb0 policykit qt4 scanner -doc -hpijs -kde -minimal -parport -snmp -static-ppds PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET=-python2_6 -python2_7 PYTHON_TARGETS=python2_7 -python2_6 The following REQUIRED_USE flag constraints are unsatisfied: !minimal? ( exactly-one-of ( python_single_target_python2_6 python_single_target_python2_7 ) ) The above constraints are a subset of the following complete expression: !minimal? ( python_single_target_python2_6? ( python_targets_python2_6 ) python_single_target_python2_7? ( python_targets_python2_7 ) exactly-one-of ( python_single_target_python2_6 python_single_target_python2_7 ) ) (dependency required by @selected [set]) (dependency required by @world [argument]) * IMPORTANT: 1 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'. * Use eselect news to read news items. What do I have to do now ?! For any advises I would thank you. Tamer
Re: [gentoo-user] printing problems
On 11/01/2015 04:08 PM, Philip Webb wrote: > I am trying to get printing to work properly in my recently built machine. > 'hp-probe' identifies my printer as 'HP Deskjet 2510 series'. > When I print a text file from Gvim or a ps file from LO, > there are blank bands across the page, omitting lines or parts of letters. > > I have managed to get Kwrite to print properly > via file -> print -> options -> layout -> schema : > when set to 'normal' 'KDE' 'Vim dark', everything comes out as it should > (there are some amusing color effects, but it's all there). > > Alongside Gentoo, I installed Mint 17.2 (Xfce), > which started printing properly via Gedit + LO > after I set print quality to 'high' via the 'http://localhost:631' menu > (I didn't go back to test Gvim there, but assume it would work too). > Gedit has its own internal print-quality menu too. > > I have compared /etc/hp/hplip.conf in Gentoo vs Mint : > the Gentoo version of Hplip is 3.14.10 , Mint has 3.15.2 ; > the Gentoo version of Cups is 2.0 , Mint has 1.7 ; > the Gentoo version of Hplip was built with 'foomatic-ppd-install=no', > the Mint version with '...=yes'. > > I can contrive to print text + ps files easily > by copying them to an appropriate partition & rebooting into Mint, > but Gentoo is supposed to make these things easier, not more difficult. > > Finally, I've never got the print icon in Gvim to work : > I use the 'prtdialog' plug-in, which prints, but only badly as above. > > Can anyone offer advice or suggestions ? > Have you tried with foomatic-ppd-install on Gentoo? It's the `static-ppds` USE flag, which may also need the `hpijs` USE flag. I had so many problems with hplip I stopped using it. I found out there was another way to use my hp CP1025nw with foomatic, and that works trouble free. Most of the problems was with hplip's installer, it just refused to work. It would say it was successful, but it never installed anything. Dan
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Quick check on net-print/hplip-3.14.10
On Thursday 17 Sep 2015 01:45:14 walt wrote: > On Wed, 16 Sep 2015 22:22:32 +0100 > > Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I just noticed that the driver for my old printer no longer shows up > > in cups, on one of my PCs. Comparison with other PCs shows that this > > one does *not* have the hpijs USE set. > > > > Could someone who also does not have hpijs set in their hplip tell me > > if the HP DeskJet 930C selection is missing, when they load up the > > GUI via https://127.0.0.1:631 and then try to modify a printer? > > > > Until this week there wasn't a problem with this PC so I am not sure > > what changed ... > > > > I've set it up with DeskJet 932c for now without USE=hpijs and it > > seems to work, so I am in two minds if I need hpijs or if I need to > > use the 930c driver anyway. > > Sometime in the past few days hpijs came to my attention in a way that > escapes me at the moment, but I remember being puzzled by it. What is > also puzzling is that hpijs doesn't show up here in the output of eix: > > Installed versions: 2.0.4^t(06:49:33 AM 08/28/2015)(X acl dbus java > pam python ssl systemd threads -debug -kerberos -lprng-compat -selinux > -static-libs -usb -xinetd -zeroconf ABI_MIPS="-n32 -n64 -o32" > ABI_PPC="-32 -64" ABI_S390="-32 -64" ABI_X86="32 64 -x32" > ELIBC="-FreeBSD" LINGUAS="-ca -cs -de -es -fr -it -ja -pt_BR -ru" > PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7") Homepage:http://www.cups.org/ > Description: The Common Unix Printing System > > When I run ufed, though, I do see an hpijs useflag described, because > it's listed in /usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc (dated today). > Here is a good use for the new git-based portage tree (which I'm not > using yet, BTW): > > https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/ > > I just spent 10 minutes searching through the commits related to cups > and I can't find anything about hpijs, but I know there's something > strange going on with that useflag. It is a flag for hplip rather than cups. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Fun with Foo (matic) ?
On Friday 09 May 2008, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: My printer stopped working yesterday (no ppds?), so I upgraded CUPS and hplip to the latest masked versions and everything worked fine. Today did an emerge -puDv world, and got this: [ebuild UD] net-print/foomatic-db-ppds-3.0.20060720 [20060720] 12,056 kB Any help would be appreciated (UD for an ebuild that is already at the current version?) See other thread on this very subject yesterday and today for details: emerge -avC all foomatic ebuilds emerge -av all foomatic ebuilds -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Fun with Foo (matic) ?
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 09 May 2008, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: My printer stopped working yesterday (no ppds?), so I upgraded CUPS and hplip to the latest masked versions and everything worked fine. Today did an emerge -puDv world, and got this: [ebuild UD] net-print/foomatic-db-ppds-3.0.20060720 [20060720] 12,056 kB Any help would be appreciated (UD for an ebuild that is already at the current version?) See other thread on this very subject yesterday and today for details: emerge -avC all foomatic ebuilds emerge -av all foomatic ebuilds Yes; that worked. Thank you very much for patiently answering this question -- sigh -- again! (Wish I had parsed it more carefully!!) -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] remote machines - cups config question
Hi, My parents are both now using Linux. My mom, approaching 80, has finally started using Gentoo. My dad has been using Gentoo for about 6 years now. They have a network addressed HP printer. I have cups on both machines but have never configured my mom's new machine to print. My dad's machine prints fine. I've installed the hplip package on my mom's machine and am wondering if I can just copy the whole /etc/cups directory from my dad's machine to my mom's and expect cups to work? It's difficult to get firefox displaying here from my mom's machine, although I'll do it if required. Thanks, Mark
[gentoo-user] Shutdown of hplip and adsl
Hello, when i shutdown my computer two failures are popping up. * Stopping hpiod ... start-stop-daemon: warning: failed to kill 13172: No such process start-stop-daemon: warning: failed to kill 13168: No such process * Stopping hpssd ... * Stopping eth0 * Bringing down eth0 * Stopping ADSL for eth0 adsl-stop: The adsl-connect script (PID 8863) appears to have died * Shutting down eth0 ... Does anybody know what this means? Is this just a problem with the hpiod and net.eth0 init-scripts, or is it something more serious. Thank you in advance, Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] (OT) - HP Officejet Pro K550
Trey Sizemore wrote: Trying to get this printer setup using CUPS, but don't see the exact model/driver available in the CUPS web admin printer wizard interface. Is anyone using this printer and know the correct model/driver to use? Thanks. linuxprinting.org list this printer as working perfectly. You will need ppds in your USE flag to compile the ppd files. Emerge hplip after adding ppds in your /etc/make.conf then log into your web setup for cups and it should just work. -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] network scanning with gentoo / hplip / hpaio
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [...] The second problem is that the HP officejet 7310 at location 192.168.1.50 is not found I had the same problem with hp-setup, can you print? I can using cups. It seems that hp-setup use a wrong syntax to contact the device via network. Anyone installed successfully this kind of device? On linuxprinting.org says almost working... - -- Public key GPG(0xC5CB65CD) on hkp://pgp.mit.edu -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFvdsr5ZpKrsXLZc0RApljAKCfzMJ5pbq62e5wxBEaIFMeFakxOwCfed4A oCnec0HIB4x+QDan8Ukr9Us= =Wmjc -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] hplip recompiled with scanner use flag now scanning works, printing does not.
2010/4/23 ubiquitous1980 nixuser1...@gmail.com: Daniel, Some additional info in the log file: So your device uses the scanner group where mine uses the lp group. From your log file I see you are in the scanner and the lp group, so you should have the appropriate permissions to access the device. Nevertheless can you post the the groups your user is in by entering groups on the commandline Also did you add your printer through the cups webinterface or hp-setup? -- Daniel Pielmeier
Re: [gentoo-user] hplip recompiled with scanner use flag now scanning works, printing does not.
ubiquitous1980 wrote: Hello Daniel, I have tried both cups webinterface and hp-setup with the same results. My groups are as follows: adm disk lp wheel uucp audio cdrom dialout video games cdrw usb users haldaemon plugdev gdm ubiquitous1980 polkituser scanner Regards, ubiquitous1980 I have set up my HP printer with the cups interface before and it does not work as well as using the hp-setup command. It either is slow to print or jobs just set in the que and never print at all. I also always run hp-setup as root not a user. May want to consider doing it this way and see if it helps. It may, it may not. Dale :-) :-)
[gentoo-user] For net-print/hplip users
I've just spent an annoying two days trying to un-break my HP multifunction printer/fax/scanner, and I hope I can spare some of you the same trouble. My symptoms were that I couldn't send a fax using hp-sendfax, which has been working very well for years -- until now. After much floundering I finally tried deleting my existing cups printers and allowing hp-setup to create new ones. All better now :) There may be more than one way to delete cups printers, I dunno, but I used the cups http interface by typing 'http://localhost:631' in my firefox URL bar (cupsd must be running for this to work).
Re: [gentoo-user] net-print/hplip-3.11.5 compile fails
Dale schrieb am 19.06.2011 01:35: Hi, Did my sync and upgraded some stuff then ran into this hiccup. I posted the console output only this time. If someone else has ran into this and has a fix, then we are good to go. If this is a first timer, I'll post the rest of the info if needed. I looked on bgo and the forums with no luck. I don't recall seeing this on this list either. Ideas? Oh, I did run etc-update and then did env-update and source /etc/profile just in case some other update changed something. No joy there either. Did you by any chance unmask cups-1.5? -- Regards Daniel signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] Re: cups configuration for dummies
Helmut Jarausch jarausch at igpm.rwth-aachen.de writes: Is there an easy means to configure CUPS on his system to find that printer? Most certainly. Visit your friend and set up access to this list, via gmane (http://post.gmane.org/) Then show him how to post and find a netiquette document, gentoo style. Then as he posts you or the rest of the list can help him. Sounds like he is going to need lots of help...? For example, I just type int he IP adress on a web browser and my printer appears (non routed address. If he has HP printers, he'll most likely want hplip to go with cups. cups has to be setup to access the printer by IP address. Bottom line, HE needs to start talking to this group, directly. Don't be shy, the water is just fine James
[gentoo-user] Re: My printing's not working. Help, please!
Alan Mackenzie acm at muc.de writes: I'm glad I wrote down my about-to-be-deleted config first. An an upgrade to anything that want to modify *.config, I so to the dir and save about-2-be-deleted version of all config files. For example in /etc/cups/ printers.conf printers.conf.31aug11 printers.conf.5dec10 printers.conf.6jun2011 printers.conf.orig (original) I could use the optional names during the updates, but those names are non sensical to me. It's saved my bacon on too many occasions, as cups it not the only brain_dead software and keeping config records that can be date correlated, helps on a variety of issues. Occasionally I prune the files I asways use hplip with HP printers. ymmv, James
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: new printer suggestions?
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Michael Trausch m...@trausch.us wrote: I have used Lexmark lasers (mono and color) for They work with standard PostScript drivers out of the box Michael, Are you saying that you were able to print to your Lexmark laser printers by more or less following these steps: 1. buy a computer, install gentoo 2. buy a lexmark mono or laser printer, plug it into computer via usb 3. emerge net-print/cups 4. Do something with standard postscript drivers (??? please elaborate on this) 5. Visit the local cups webpage, add new printer, select lexmark 6. print Notably absent from this list: PCL, IPP, foomatic, hplip, ppds, binary, drivers, manufacturer website visits, etc Thank you! Chris
[gentoo-user] New Gnome Systemd Upgrade Question
Hi, I installed Gentoo a long time ago with the desktop/gnome profile set. Now, I don't use gnome (i use fluxbox). However since I have the use tags, many gnome libraries were pulled in over time. Now, since the upgrade to gnome 3.8, Portage updates result in a conflict because the gnome libs need systemd, which conflicts with udev. Instead of making the switch to systemd, I decided to change my profile to plain desktop (no gnome). Since I don't have gnome desktop, it was relatively simple for the system to update itself. My only questions are, will cups and hplip function in a 'gnomeless' system, and are there any other gotchas to be aware of?
Re: [gentoo-user] foo2zjs make install error
On Mon, 14 Apr 2014 21:06:12 -0400, Dutch Ingraham wrote: I'm having a problem installing a print driver, foo2zjs, downloaded and compiled from source. There is an ebuild for foo2zjs. This is a driver for a HP P1505n printer. (hplip is not an option as this printer needs further firmware that is not generally available). The error message I'm getting at the make install command is: Error - foomatic-rip is not installed! Install foomatic packages for your OS make [install test] Error 1 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=503578 The file is on your system but not where foo2zjs is looking. -- Neil Bothwick Windows will never cease. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Re: Lable Printer for gLabels
James wireless at tampabay.rr.com writes: It's been a while since I used stick-on labels. But we use to by letter sized papers, covered on one side with stick-on labels all of the same size. We mostly put mailing address on each label. We used an hp printer and the particular sheets we used where coded, with I believe was a 4 digit number, as I think avery and others make litterally thousands of choices for these sheets (at least they use to). http://www.sheet-labels.com/labels/all_label_sizes/?lmc_track=8887947849gclid=CJfbpMG6pL4CFUQaOgodSFMAWg This pages shows some of those for digit avery form numbers. It's probably integrated into cups or hplip, I do not know for sure becauses it's been more than a decade since I had set up label printing for sheet label printing. hth, James
[gentoo-user] Printer margins
Howdy, I finally got around to ordering some ink cartridges. Now I want to do some printing. Thing is, it tries to print ALL the way to the bottom which ends up blurred and unreadable. I've looked in Seamonkey settings, nothing. I've looked in Hplip, nothing there. I've even looked in cups, well, nothing that makes sense. I don't like the new cups interface. I didn't see anything there related to margins and when I looked in the config file, I couldn't make sense of what to change. So, how does one change the bottom margin to say 1/2 or even 3/4 inch or something? Is there a way? Thanks. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] printing problems
On Monday 02 Nov 2015 02:46:01 Daniel Frey wrote: > On 11/01/2015 04:08 PM, Philip Webb wrote: > > I am trying to get printing to work properly in my recently built > > machine. 'hp-probe' identifies my printer as 'HP Deskjet 2510 series'. > > When I print a text file from Gvim or a ps file from LO, > > there are blank bands across the page, omitting lines or parts of > > letters. > > > > I have managed to get Kwrite to print properly > > via file -> print -> options -> layout -> schema : > > when set to 'normal' 'KDE' 'Vim dark', everything comes out as it should > > (there are some amusing color effects, but it's all there). > > > > Alongside Gentoo, I installed Mint 17.2 (Xfce), > > which started printing properly via Gedit + LO > > after I set print quality to 'high' via the 'http://localhost:631' menu > > (I didn't go back to test Gvim there, but assume it would work too). > > Gedit has its own internal print-quality menu too. > > > > I have compared /etc/hp/hplip.conf in Gentoo vs Mint : > > the Gentoo version of Hplip is 3.14.10 , Mint has 3.15.2 ; > > the Gentoo version of Cups is 2.0 , Mint has 1.7 ; > > the Gentoo version of Hplip was built with 'foomatic-ppd-install=no', > > the Mint version with '...=yes'. > > > > I can contrive to print text + ps files easily > > by copying them to an appropriate partition & rebooting into Mint, > > but Gentoo is supposed to make these things easier, not more difficult. > > > > Finally, I've never got the print icon in Gvim to work : > > I use the 'prtdialog' plug-in, which prints, but only badly as above. > > > > Can anyone offer advice or suggestions ? > > Have you tried with foomatic-ppd-install on Gentoo? It's the > `static-ppds` USE flag, which may also need the `hpijs` USE flag. > > I had so many problems with hplip I stopped using it. I found out there > was another way to use my hp CP1025nw with foomatic, and that works > trouble free. Most of the problems was with hplip's installer, it just > refused to work. It would say it was successful, but it never installed > anything. > > Dan Before you reinstall with 'static-ppds' chech setting hpijs. This is my flags with another (older) HP printer and it works here: [I] net-print/hplip Available versions: 3.14.10 [X doc fax +hpcups hpijs kde libnotify -libusb0 minimal parport policykit qt4 scanner snmp static-ppds PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7"] ~3.15.9 [X doc fax +hpcups hpijs kde libnotify -libusb0 minimal parport policykit qt4 scanner snmp static-ppds PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7"] Installed versions: 3.14.10(12:51:55 04/05/15)(X hpcups hpijs kde libnotify policykit qt4 -doc -fax -libusb0 -minimal -parport -scanner -snmp - static-ppds PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7") -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] printing problems
On 03/11/2015 18:05, Dale wrote: > Philip Webb wrote: >> I am trying to get printing to work properly in my recently built machine. >> 'hp-probe' identifies my printer as 'HP Deskjet 2510 series'. >> When I print a text file from Gvim or a ps file from LO, >> there are blank bands across the page, omitting lines or parts of letters. >> >> I have managed to get Kwrite to print properly >> via file -> print -> options -> layout -> schema : >> when set to 'normal' 'KDE' 'Vim dark', everything comes out as it should >> (there are some amusing color effects, but it's all there). >> >> Alongside Gentoo, I installed Mint 17.2 (Xfce), >> which started printing properly via Gedit + LO >> after I set print quality to 'high' via the 'http://localhost:631' menu >> (I didn't go back to test Gvim there, but assume it would work too). >> Gedit has its own internal print-quality menu too. >> >> I have compared /etc/hp/hplip.conf in Gentoo vs Mint : >> the Gentoo version of Hplip is 3.14.10 , Mint has 3.15.2 ; >> the Gentoo version of Cups is 2.0 , Mint has 1.7 ; >> the Gentoo version of Hplip was built with 'foomatic-ppd-install=no', >> the Mint version with '...=yes'. >> >> I can contrive to print text + ps files easily >> by copying them to an appropriate partition & rebooting into Mint, >> but Gentoo is supposed to make these things easier, not more difficult. >> >> Finally, I've never got the print icon in Gvim to work : >> I use the 'prtdialog' plug-in, which prints, but only badly as above. >> >> Can anyone offer advice or suggestions ? >> > > > I don't know if this will help or not but since you seem to be grasping > at straws, grab this one and hold on for dear life. For the longest > time, every time hplip, cups and friends were updated, I had to delete > and readd my printer. If I didn't, printing was not going to happen, > period. I might also add, I'd restart cups just to be sure, after the > delete and again after the readd. Once I did that, printing worked like > a charm. If I didn't know better, I'd think the ink lasted longer too. > ROFL Just kidding but . . . . If nothing else works, may want to try > that. > > Oh, the last time I did the setup, I ignored cups completely. I went in > as root and set up the printer using the hplip command. That was at > least a couple years ago. Since then, whenever I get ready to print, > and replace the dried out cartridges, it just works. I have a D4260, > currently out of ink, again. > > I think the actual command is hp-setup. I use KDE and that opens a GUI > to do the set up. Generally, it is just clicking next. It just seems > to figure out the rest itself, unless you have more than one printer > hooked up then you may have to select something. > > None of this may help but maybe one will. May be worth a shot. ;-) That's my experience too. I print very little by for ages now everytime a change was made to a printer or cups (even teeny minor ones), I'd delete and re-add all printers plus restart cups. Why does cups behave like this? Buggered if I know. I have an unexpressable opinion based on a certain fruity vendor who seems better at suing Samsung than actually writing code -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
Re: [gentoo-user] printing problems
Philip Webb wrote: > I am trying to get printing to work properly in my recently built machine. > 'hp-probe' identifies my printer as 'HP Deskjet 2510 series'. > When I print a text file from Gvim or a ps file from LO, > there are blank bands across the page, omitting lines or parts of letters. > > I have managed to get Kwrite to print properly > via file -> print -> options -> layout -> schema : > when set to 'normal' 'KDE' 'Vim dark', everything comes out as it should > (there are some amusing color effects, but it's all there). > > Alongside Gentoo, I installed Mint 17.2 (Xfce), > which started printing properly via Gedit + LO > after I set print quality to 'high' via the 'http://localhost:631' menu > (I didn't go back to test Gvim there, but assume it would work too). > Gedit has its own internal print-quality menu too. > > I have compared /etc/hp/hplip.conf in Gentoo vs Mint : > the Gentoo version of Hplip is 3.14.10 , Mint has 3.15.2 ; > the Gentoo version of Cups is 2.0 , Mint has 1.7 ; > the Gentoo version of Hplip was built with 'foomatic-ppd-install=no', > the Mint version with '...=yes'. > > I can contrive to print text + ps files easily > by copying them to an appropriate partition & rebooting into Mint, > but Gentoo is supposed to make these things easier, not more difficult. > > Finally, I've never got the print icon in Gvim to work : > I use the 'prtdialog' plug-in, which prints, but only badly as above. > > Can anyone offer advice or suggestions ? > I don't know if this will help or not but since you seem to be grasping at straws, grab this one and hold on for dear life. For the longest time, every time hplip, cups and friends were updated, I had to delete and readd my printer. If I didn't, printing was not going to happen, period. I might also add, I'd restart cups just to be sure, after the delete and again after the readd. Once I did that, printing worked like a charm. If I didn't know better, I'd think the ink lasted longer too. ROFL Just kidding but . . . . If nothing else works, may want to try that. Oh, the last time I did the setup, I ignored cups completely. I went in as root and set up the printer using the hplip command. That was at least a couple years ago. Since then, whenever I get ready to print, and replace the dried out cartridges, it just works. I have a D4260, currently out of ink, again. I think the actual command is hp-setup. I use KDE and that opens a GUI to do the set up. Generally, it is just clicking next. It just seems to figure out the rest itself, unless you have more than one printer hooked up then you may have to select something. None of this may help but maybe one will. May be worth a shot. ;-) Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Printer margins
Stroller wrote: On Mon, 6 July 2015, at 10:01 pm, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: … it tries to print ALL the way to the bottom which ends up blurred and unreadable. … So, how does one change the bottom margin to say 1/2 or even 3/4 inch or something? Is there a way? Are you using A4 printer settings on US letter sized paper? Stroller. Nope. That was my first thought. I was hoping. I checked everything that can affect the printer, the apps setting, hplip and cups. All set correctly. Good idea tho. ;-) Thanks. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Brother Printer
On Sat, 10 Dec 2016 16:45:46 -0700 Alec Ten Harmsel <a...@alectenharmsel.com> wrote: > I'm on this thread a little late, but does CUPS not work? Every printer > I've set up on a linux box (only a handful, to be fair) has worked out > of the box without extra drivers. I have try now. With generic driver I play but they give only out blank pages. No text. I have now try with older hp and hplip it work. So I think I will buy a HP Device. I write to Brother Support and ask for native 64 support and which printer/scanner/fax combi but no answer. Silvio pgpRYTB1eV7qG.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] scanning using the sheet feeder (HP 8600 + xsane)
I have an hp 8600 all-in-one and use net-print/hplip. Printing is fine. I use xsane for scanning, which also works well ... ... except I can't figure out how to use the sheet feeder for multipage scanning. I can select multipage and can the scan each page singly and hit "save multipage file". This works. But I can't put say 10 pages in the feeder, hit something, get coffee, and find a 10 page document on my computer. In case it is relevant, I run gentoo stable / gnome-3 / systemd. thanks in advance, allan
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: problem dropping Python 2.7
from Philip Webb: > I suspect Fetchmail is somewhat neglected : is there an alternative ? > Otherwise, thanks for the various responses. > I now understand what's going on & will defer Python 2.7 till year-end. I use mpop and msmtp. I tried to set up fetchmail many years ago. One deficiency is that it didn't allow downloading email to a file (mbox). I used getmail, which is a Python script, many years ago after giving up on fetchmail. I believe hplip, used for some HP printers including multifunction, depends on Python 2.7, something that needs to be corrected/updated. Or is that already done? Tom
Re: [gentoo-user] hplip network scanning port
On 01/08/2020 03:03, Adam Carter wrote: I used to be able to scan on my gentoo box from an HP officejet pro on the network. This is now failing and i can see that the gentoo box is attempting to connect to TCP/6566 on the HP, but the HP is not listening on that port. Test command is; hp-scan -dhpaio:/net/HP_Officejet_Pro_8620?ip= Is 6566 scan attempt using the correct port? Have you accidentally closed the port on the scanner (not sure whether that's possible, but ...) I use "scan to network" from the printer, but that may not be possible on yours. Just open a samba port and the scanner saves the file there. But that isn't foolproof either - when I changed scanner (from Dell to HP) one user stopped working ... ?? Cheers, Wol
[gentoo-user] media-libs/lcms-2.13 causes weird printer output
Hello to everyone, since upgrading media-libs/lcms from version 2.12 to 2.13, any text document I print has a dark gray background instead of a white one. The printer is a HP OfficeJetPro 8715 which uses hplip and works correctly with lcms-2.12. I tried with PDF files and with LibreOffice text documents and the result is the same. Has anyone had similar issues? I was going to file a bug report, but before doing so I'd like to know whether it can be an issue with my system. Searching google I didn't find anything. Thanks in advance Stefano
Re: [gentoo-user] The hopeless futility of printing.
On 29/01/2024 18:19, Alan Grimes wrote: k...@aspodata.se wrote: >> Absolutely suprimo HP laser jet network printer. You didn't write what model, hard to help you then. It's a LaserJet Pro M453-4. I have absolutely no trouble with HP. But I always used hplip. I notice though it's not installed on my current server/workstation ??? That prints fine. My printer's an M477 - with scanner and everything - but that's configured as "scan to network" so it just opens a samba share and dumps the scan there. Under "make and model", cups says "HP Color LaserJet Series PCL 6 CUPS". Cheers, Wol
Re: [gentoo-user] hplip recompiled with scanner use flag now scanning works, printing does not.
for dependency: Python libnotify - Python bindings for the libnotify Desktop notifications...[0m warning: NOT FOUND! This is an OPTIONAL/RUNTIME ONLY dependency. Some HPLIP functionality may not function properly. hp-check[29672]: info: : hp-check[29672]: info: :[01mChecking for dependency: Python XML libraries...[0m hp-check[29672]: info: :OK, found. hp-check[29672]: info: : hp-check[29672]: info: :[01mChecking for dependency: Python 2.3 or greater - Required for fax functionality...[0m hp-check[29672]: info: :OK, found. hp-check[29672]: info: : hp-check[29672]: info: :[01mChecking for dependency: Python 2.2 or greater - Python programming language...[0m hp-check[29672]: info: :OK, found. hp-check[29672]: info: : hp-check[29672]: info: :[01mChecking for dependency: Reportlab - PDF library for Python...[0m warning: NOT FOUND! This is an OPTIONAL/RUNTIME ONLY dependency. Some HPLIP functionality may not function properly. hp-check[29672]: info: : hp-check[29672]: info: :[01mChecking for dependency: SANE - Scanning library...[0m hp-check[29672]: info: :OK, found. hp-check[29672]: info: : hp-check[29672]: info: :[01mChecking for dependency: SANE - Scanning library development files...[0m hp-check[29672]: info: :OK, found. hp-check[29672]: info: : hp-check[29672]: info: :[01mChecking for dependency: scanimage - Shell scanning program...[0m hp-check[29672]: info: :OK, found. hp-check[29672]: info: : hp-check[29672]: info: :[01mChecking for dependency: xsane - Graphical scanner frontend for SANE...[0m warning: NOT FOUND! This is an OPTIONAL/RUNTIME ONLY dependency. Some HPLIP functionality may not function properly. hp-check[29672]: info: : hp-check[29672]: info: : hp-check[29672]: info: :-- hp-check[29672]: info: :| HPLIP INSTALLATION | hp-check[29672]: info: :-- hp-check[29672]: info: : hp-check[29672]: info: : hp-check[29672]: info: :[01mCurrently installed HPLIP version...[0m hp-check[29672]: info: :HPLIP 3.9.12 currently installed in '/usr/share/hplip'. hp-check[29672]: info: : hp-check[29672]: info: :[01mCurrent contents of '/etc/hp/hplip.conf' file:[0m hp-check[29672]: info: :# hplip.conf. Generated from hplip.conf.in by configure. [hplip] version=3.9.12 [dirs] home=/usr/share/hplip run=/var/run ppd=/usr/share/ppd/HP ppdbase=/usr/share/ppd doc=/usr/share/doc/hplip-3.9.12 html=/usr/share/doc/hplip-3.9.12/html icon=/usr/share/applications cupsbackend=/usr/libexec/cups/backend cupsfilter=/usr/libexec/cups/filter drv=/usr/share/cups/drv/hp # Following values are determined at configure time and cannot be changed. [configure] network-build=yes pp-build=no gui-build=yes scanner-build=yes fax-build=no dbus-build=yes cups11-build=no doc-build=no shadow-build=no hpijs-install=no foomatic-drv-install=no foomatic-ppd-install=no foomatic-rip-hplip-install=no hpcups-install=yes cups-drv-install=yes cups-ppd-install=no internal-tag=3.9.12.29 restricted-build=no ui-toolkit=qt4 qt3=no qt4=yes policy-kit=no hpijs-only-build=no lite-build=no udev-acl-rules=no hpcups-only-build=no hpijs-only-build=no hp-check[29672]: info: : hp-check[29672]: info: :[01mCurrent contents of '/var/lib/hp/hplip.state' file:[0m hp-check[29672]: info: :# hplip.state - HPLIP runtime persistent variables. [plugin] installed=0 eula=0 hp-check[29672]: info: : hp-check[29672]: info: :[01mCurrent contents of '~/.hplip/hplip.conf' file:[0m hp-check[29672]: info: :[last_used] printer_name = Photosmart_C5100 working_dir = . device_uri = hp:/usb/Photosmart_C5100_series?serial=MY65SB210504MK [commands] scan = /usr/bin/xsane -V %SANE_URI% [installation] version = 3.9.12.29 date_time = 04/23/10 12:12:21 [settings] systray_messages = 0 systray_visible = 0 [fax] email_address = voice_phone = [refresh] rate = 30 enable = false type = 1 [polling] enable = false device_list = interval = 5 hp-check[29672]: info: : hp-check[29672]: info: :-- hp-check[29672]: info: :| DISCOVERED USB DEVICES | hp-check[29672]: info: :-- hp-check[29672]: info: : hp-check[29672]: info: : Device URIModel hp-check[29672]: info: : -- hp-check[29672]: info: : hp:/usb/Photosmart_C5100_series? HP Photosmart C5100 series serial=MY65SB210504MK hp-check[29672]: info: : hp-check[29672]: info: :- hp-check[29672]: info: :| INSTALLED CUPS PRINTER QUEUES | hp-check[29672]: info: :- hp-check[29672]: info: : hp-check[29672]: info: : hp-check[29672]: info: :[01mPhotosmart_C5100[0m hp-check[29672]: info: :[01m[0m hp-check[29672]: info: :Type: Printer hp-check[29672]: info: :Device URI: hp:/usb/Photosmart_C5100_series?serial=MY65SB210504MK hp-check[29672]: info: :PPD: /etc/cups/ppd/Photosmart_C5100.ppd hp-check[29672]: info: :PPD Description: HP Photosmart c5100 Series
Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo rebuild, cups won't work
Kevin O'Gorman wrote: It runs, but only gives me options for usb and net. This makes some sense since there are no /dev/parport* entries in my system. Nevertheless, I have parallel port support as I understand it. From my kernel (2.6.22-gentoo-r6) .config file: # # Generic Driver Options # CONFIG_STANDALONE=y CONFIG_PREVENT_FIRMWARE_BUILD=y CONFIG_FW_LOADER=m # CONFIG_SYS_HYPERVISOR is not set # CONFIG_CONNECTOR is not set # CONFIG_MTD is not set CONFIG_PARPORT=yparallel port CONFIG_PARPORT_PC=y PC style # CONFIG_PARPORT_SERIAL is not set # CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_FIFO is not set # CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_SUPERIO is not set # CONFIG_PARPORT_GSC is not set # CONFIG_PARPORT_AX88796 is not set CONFIG_PARPORT_1284=y CONFIG_PNP=y # CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG is not set Thanks for the help. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD My printer is on my USB port now. It used to be on parport tho. Here is my kernel config, shortened version: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # cat /usr/src/linux/.config | grep PARPORT CONFIG_PARPORT=y CONFIG_PARPORT_PC=y CONFIG_PARPORT_SERIAL=y # CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_FIFO is not set # CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_SUPERIO is not set # CONFIG_PARPORT_GSC is not set # CONFIG_PARPORT_AX88796 is not set CONFIG_PARPORT_1284=y # CONFIG_I2C_PARPORT is not set # CONFIG_I2C_PARPORT_LIGHT is not set [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # Looks like you have the same two I have. Mine did used to work anyway. Not real sure on that one. You check your USE flags for the HP package? Here is mine: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # emerge -pv hplip These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] net-print/hplip-2.7.10 USE=X ppds -doc -fax -minimal -parport -scanner -snmp 14,104 kB Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 14,104 kB [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # Note the parport option? Mine is disabled, by default I guess. You can add it to the package.use file if yours is disabled too. Dale :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS: Need help setting up my parallel port printer
Michael Sullivan wrote: We got a new printer today. It's the same model as our old printer, so it should work, right? I followed the Gentoo Printing Guide up to the point where one sets up the printer in the CUPS administrative interface. It does not offer me a parallel port choice for the device. My kernel is built with parallel port support and I have modprobed parport and parport_pc: catherine ~ # lsmod | grep parport parport_pc 32868 0 parport26696 1 parport_pc And dmseg is aware of the printer: catherine ~ # dmesg | grep -i print parport0: Printer, EPSON Stylus C88 But on the CUPS interface, I can choose from AppSocket/HPJetDirect Backend Error Handler HP Printer (HPLIP) Internet Printing Protocol (http) Internet Printing Protocol (ipp) LPD/LPR Host or Printer SCSI Printer Serial Port #1 but no parallel port. It used to be on there. How can I get it back, or is parallel port called something else now? You may need to set the parport USE flag in make.comf or package.use. Mine has it for my HP. [ebuild R ] net-print/hplip-2.7.10 USE=X parport ppds -doc -fax -minimal -scanner -snmp 0 kB Hope that helps. Dale :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS problem
Alan E. Davis wrote: I have installed two or three times, deleted /etc/cups and reinstalled the printer. It showed up as an HPLIP device when installing, w/ CUPS and/or the kde printer utility. NOtably the utility OR the localhost:631 interface did not show any option for a USB printer. The address that ended up being used was a usb:printername. When I get gentoo booted up I'll look at it again. For now, I have to print, so I've installed Ubuntu on another partition. Printing works fine there, so that's a start. Thank you, Alan On Jan 7, 2008 2:48 AM, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 06 January 2008, Dale wrote: Alan E. Davis wrote: Any ideas? I ran into something similar to the a while back and I had to un-merge cups, delete the config files, then reemerge cups and reconfigure my printer. Keep in mind that when you unmerge something, the config files remain in /etc unchanged. Assuming that you have set the correct device in the GUI for your printer, then the most likely error is that your have not provided the correct path for it. Show us what you have defined the path as in case we can help. -- Regards, Mick They recently changed it over to hplip. Is that installed on your system? Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS can't print
On 1 Oct 2008, at 20:31, maxim wexler wrote: This printer, HP Laserjet 4 plus, works fine in WinXP. According to localhost:631 the printer was set up successfully but when I tried to print a test page the printer made some whirring noise then stopped and went off-line. In the LED readout on the printer it says: PC Load H4. According to the error log the job was completed successfully. Hi Maxim, Is it possible the LED display on your LJ4 is broken, and it's in fact trying to display Load A4? This is a European translation of the old Officespace load letter joke - A4 being a paper size about the same size as the US standard letter paper - and it seems likely to me that: 1) pressing the ready or ok button on the printer will cause it to print on the letter paper currently in the tray. (At least, this works the other way round, when a European printer says load letter, but then A4 is c 1 longer than letter). 2) your printer is set to the wrong paper size somewhere. You may be able to find this among the settings in http://localhost:631 but it may also be in the menus on the printer itself. Don't neglect this! It's intended to tell the printer what sizes of paper are in each of its trays. This may work fine in XP because it ignores or overrides the printer's own settings, but may be respected by CUPS. I should add that the LJ4 is old enough it should be supported under CUPS without the net-print/hplip software mentioned by Alan. I've certainly had one working here without it - I'm not sure if mine was a 4, 4+ or 5, to be honest, because I'm using a 4000-series now, still without hplip. I think I have always had Postscript on my LaserJets, but I don't think that'll make much difference. Stroller.
Re: [gentoo-user] Trying KDE-4
Peter Humphrey schrieb am 22.10.2008 18:42: Now I'm back on the original system, and putting Alex's package.keywords entries in I find I still have the blockers; his solution isn't working for me, even after reinstalling PyQt4 and sip. Neither is my own on this system. But then I'm getting what looks like nonsense from equery, thus: # equery h qt4 [ Searching for USE flag qt4 in all categories among: ] * installed packages [I--] [ ] dev-python/qscintilla-python-2.1 (0) [I--] [ ] net-print/hplip-2.8.6b (0) [I--] [ ] x11-libs/qscintilla-2.1-r1 (0) [I--] [ ] app-text/poppler-bindings-0.8.7 (0) ...but equery u qscintilla and equery u qscintilla-python both return this line: - - qt4 : Adds support for the Qt GUI/Application Toolkit version 4.x So unless I'm misunderstanding the output of equery as well, the qt4 USE flag both is and is not in use in the two scintilla packages. Why is this nonsense? equery h shows which installed packages have the given use flag regardless if it is set or not. equery u shows you which use flags are set or unset for the given package. After writing the above, I uninstalled hplip and poppler-bindings, then reinstalled poppler-bindings and ran revdep-rebuild. That hasn't helped either. Please post again the output from emerge -pvutND world but attach it in a file so it doesn't get crippled by the mail program. Also what I have seen from your previous tree output is that you are trying to do many things at one time. Upgrading to kde4 changing and changing many use flags. This makes debugging very hard. Try to do only one thing at a time Regards, Daniel
Re: [gentoo-user] Network printing
On Tuesday 23 December 2008, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Monday 22 December 2008 18:00:52 BRM wrote: [snip...] I let cups find the printer and I tell it to use the .ppd file I got from linuxprinting.org. It shows the printer configuration page, where I set A4 paper, then I get a security error saying that I have attempted to establish a connection with 192.168.2.2 whereas the security certificate presented belongs to serv.ethnet. Guess what - serv.ethnet is the machine I'm working on and it has IP address 192.168.2.2. What is going on here? (I don't get this error when setting up my laser printer; only with this inkjet.) If you are using SSL certificates you must set up the correct domain name, with regards to what the client machines see on the intranet/LAN. Clearly the IP address is not a FQDN and the certificate check fails. So, you want your common name (CN = serv.ethnet or whatever) to be the same with the name that your server is seen by the client in the LAN and this may involve setting up your router to resolve serv.ethnet to 192.168.2.2, or adding an entry in your client's /etc/hosts file to this effect. On printing a test page I get /usr/libexec/cups/filter/foomatic-rip failed and job stopped. On your client systems you add it as an IPP printer as the Network Server's CUPS server is the IPP host. It would be nice to get that far. At present I can't get anything working at all without using hplip. I am sorry but I have not followed all your previous threads on this subject - from my experience hplip should work straight out of the box. To see what's failing (which could well be related to the http:// ir ipp:// path to the printer being incorrect) you need to increase the verbosity of CUPS in its configuration file and then have a close look at: /var/log/cups/access_log /var/log/cups/error_log HTH. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Cups blockers . . .
On Wednesday 06 June 2007 15:41, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Wednesday 06 June 2007 16:25:51 Mick wrote: # emerge -uDv world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: ... done! [ebuild U ] net-print/cups-1.2.10-r1 [1.2.9] USE=X dbus jpeg ldap nls pam png ppds ssl tiff -php -samba -slp 0 kB [ebuild U ] media-gfx/xsane-0.994 [0.991] USE=jpeg nls png tiff -gimp -lcms% 0 kB [ebuild N] net-print/foomatic-filters-ppds-20060720 0 kB [blocks B ] net-print/foomatic-filters-ppds-20070501 (is blocking net-print/cups-1.2.10-r1) [SNIP] # emerge -C net-print/foomatic-filters-ppds-20070501 --- Couldn't find 'net-print/foomatic-filters-ppds-20070501' to unmerge. No packages selected for removal by unmerge [SNIP] What now? Do I need to uninstall cups as well? No, you need to unmask net-print/foomatic-filters-ppds-20070501. Apparently someone screwed up by stabling cups-1.2.10-r1 without having it's deps with USE=ppds stabled first. https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=181055 Thanks Bo, the block message confused me a bit. This is what I had to do: 1. emerge -C hplip foomatic-filters-ppds 2. emerge -uDv cups 3. emerge -uDv world 4. emerge -uDv hplip All is good now. :) -- Regards, Mick pgp3XgVCFdXmZ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge inforamtion
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: USE flags doubts (again). If I run this command: emerge -pv hplip the output is: [ebuild R ] net-print/hplip-0.9.7-r3 +X +cups +foomaticdb -ppds +qt +scanner* -snmp +usb 0 kB There are 5 flags prefixed by a plus and red coloured (+X, +cups, +foomaticdb, +qt and +usb). These flags are already set. Right? The plus sign means that it will be compiled with support for that flag. It means you can use that basically. There are 2 flags prefixed by a menus and blue coloured (-ppds and -snmp). These flags are not set. But, should I set them? It depends on whether you will use them or not. This is what that flag is for: ppds - Adds support for automatically generated ppd (printing driver) files. If you need it, edit make.conf file and put it in the USE= line. The snmp is this: snmp - Adds support for the Simple Network Management Protocol if available. You can get the same info from here: /usr/portage/profiles/use.desc Finally there is anoter flag prefixed by a plus and green coloured (+scanner*). What does the trailing * mean? What does the green colour mean? Thank you a lot in advance. emilio If I recall correctly, that * means it has been changed since the program was instaled. If you changed some flags recently, you may want to do a emerge -Nvp world to see what else has changed. If everything looks OK, take off the p and let it recompile those for you so it will work correctly. Hope that helps. Dale :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Best printer to use with Gentoo.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 10:33:39 -0500, Carl Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've had no success getting my HP PSC 1610 Inkjet/Scanner connected to CUPS under Gentoo. Of course, there's no such thing as a best printer, but do any subscribers have recommendations for printers they've found easy to connect and use? Either inkjet or low-cost laser. FWIW, I could not get my HP photosmart 7660 to work 'til I went with hplip 1.6.12 and cups 1.2.7. (I print only rarely, but when necessary, I start up hplip, then cupsd.) Everything works fine. HTH Did you see it http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/printing-howto.xml#usb It is necessary to be able to use USB printer in your kernel like this: Device Drivers -- USB Support -- * Support for Host-side USB (...) --- USB Host Controller Drivers (Select the HCD that your system uses. If you do not know which one to select, run lspci -v | grep HCI from another terminal) * EHCI HCD (USB 2.0) support ( or ) * OHCI HCD support ( or ) * UHCI HCD (most Intel and VIA) support (...) * USB Printer support Did you? I hope that it help you Regards Sigfrido -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS and hp OfficeJet Pro
James wrote: Hello, I've successfully set up many printers, using cups and HPLIP before. I prefer to use CUPS. So I cannot find an explicit listing for this new model HP printer: OfficeJet Pro 8500; so I'm using this driver: HP OfficeJet Pro 1150C. Everything works, admin from localhost:631 for CUPS; HP printer admin from the embedded web server (very cool). It has a multitude of settings, but no duplex setting. I'm trying to avoid using the HP disc on an XP system for admin... The HP literature clearly states this is a duplex printer. I can copy both sides of a letter size document to a single page, just using the menu on the printer. So I can see that it duplexes. So I'm concluding (for now) that the problem is the CUPS (best/closest I could choose) driver does not support Duplex printing. Does anyone know of an HP OfficeJet driver that supports duplex printing? I have not been successful in finding a CUPS drivers specifically for this printer: HP OfficeJet Pro (A909g) and I really do not want to use HPLIP. CUPS-1.4.2-r1 is installed. Any suggestions are most welcome. James http://opensolaris.org/jive/message.jspa?messageID=400875#400875 About the third one down. Maybe that will help. Dale :-) :-)
[gentoo-user] Re: CUPS and hp OfficeJet Pro
James wireless at tampabay.rr.com writes:
Maybe some printer wiz will figure out how to just
edit the /etc/cups/printers.conf file directly
Well, I hate to keep answering my own posts
surely one of the more astute admins will jump in?
(and keep me from looking.foolish?)
So continuing to research this I find some new-2-me flags
on gentoo:
eix hplip
* net-print/hplip
Available versions: 2.8.6b ~3.9.8-r3 3.9.12-r1 ~3.10.2 {cupsddk dbus doc
fax gtk +hpcups hpijs libnotify minimal -new-hpcups parport policykit ppds qt4
scanner snmp static-ppds -udev-acl}
eix -e cups
[I] net-print/cups
Available versions: 1.3.11-r1!t (~)1.3.11-r2!t (~)1.4.2-r1!t {X acl avahi
dbus debug gnutls java (+)jpeg kerberos ldap linguas_da linguas_de linguas_en
linguas_es linguas_et linguas_eu linguas_fi linguas_fr linguas_he linguas_id
linguas_it linguas_ja linguas_ko linguas_nl linguas_no linguas_pl linguas_pt
linguas_pt_BR linguas_ru linguas_sv linguas_zh linguas_zh_TW pam perl php (+)png
ppds python samba slp (+)ssl static (+)tiff xinetd zeroconf}
ef (explain flag) is a little script from Ciaran...
ef cupsddk
Add support for net-print/cupsddk which enables dynamic PPD files (recommended)
ef hpcups
Build the hpcups driver for cups (by HP)
ef new-hpcups
Build the new hpcups driver for cups which is no longer based on APDK (by HP)
So, my question is has anyone any knowledge of these flags
and with cups (/etc/cups/ppd/*driver*)
???
James
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CUPS and hp OfficeJet Pro
James wrote: Jameswirelessat tampabay.rr.com writes: Maybe some printer wiz will figure out how to just edit the /etc/cups/printers.conf file directly Well, I hate to keep answering my own posts surely one of the more astute admins will jump in? (and keep me from looking.foolish?) So continuing to research this I find some new-2-me flags on gentoo: snip So, my question is has anyone any knowledge of these flags and with cups (/etc/cups/ppd/*driver*) ??? James This is what I have for use FLAGS: r...@smoker ~ # emerge -pv hplip cups These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] net-print/cups-1.3.11-r1 USE=X acl avahi dbus gnutls java jpeg ldap pam perl png ppds python ssl tiff zeroconf -kerberos -php -samba -slp -static -xinetd LINGUAS=en -de -es -et -fr -he -id -it -ja -pl -sv -zh_TW 0 kB [ebuild R ] net-print/hplip-3.9.12-r1 USE=gtk hpcups libnotify parport qt4 -doc -fax -hpijs -minimal -new-hpcups -policykit -scanner -snmp -static-ppds -udev-acl 0 kB Total: 2 packages (2 reinstalls), Size of downloads: 0 kB * IMPORTANT: 1 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'. * Use eselect news to read news items. r...@smoker ~ # I have a HP printer too. I went into cups and looked for your printer, your model is in there. So, if you duplicate my USE flags, you should be able to find your printer in that LONG list of printers. I think ppds and hpcups is the key ones. I would at least start with those. Hope that helps. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] cups hplib - how to divorce
2011/2/9 Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de: AFAIR it worked just fine with CUPS-1.3.x Then why don't you use stable cups? I do have CONFIG_USB_PRINTER=y in my kernel configuration. New cups 1.4 can make use of the libusb package via the usb use flag. Without it uses the kernel USB support CONFIG_USB_PRINTER. If you want to use cups-1.4, I recommend to compile kernel USB support as module CONFIG_USB_PRINTER=m instead of built-in. This way you can test both methods without conflicts. Compile cups-1.4 with usb use flag and blacklist the usblp module to test if it works with libusb. To test if it works with the kernel module remove the blacklist entry and compile cups without usb use flag. Btw: cups-1.4 is not stable because of issues with usb support ([1] see also the depending bugs), so if both methods do not work for you I recommend using cups-1.3 for the time being. [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=333781 PS: You can only get rid of hplip if your printer is directly supported by cups and cups only supports a few HP printer. So in general you are better of with hplip. -- Daniel Pielmeier
[gentoo-user] Re: network scanner not seen by xsane on *some* systems
On 07/07/2012 11:03 AM, Allan Gottlieb wrote: error: Unable to communicate with device (code=12): hp:/net/Officejet_7300_series?zc=HPCC9932 error: Unable to print to printer. Please check device and try again. Make me want to throw your laptop out of my window :) You can ping your printer, so I'd want to know what network traffic is going/coming from cups/hplip, if any. (I really like ngrep because it's absolutely trivial to use, so that's the tool I would use.) I saw this simple test on the hplip debugging website: Determine the IP address of your printer by printing out the network configuration page (or if you know it or can determine it in another way) Run: $ hp-makeuri ip-address For example: $ hp-makeuri 192.168.1.1 This will result in a device URI printed to the console. For example: hp:/net/Officejet_9100_series?ip=192.168.1.1 Copy this device URI Open the CUPS UI: http://localhost:631 (or YasT, etc) and install the printer by pasting the generated URI. I noticed that your hp:/etc URI looks reasonable, but I'd try using the ip address directly as an experiment. It's very quick even if it's useless :)
Re: [gentoo-user] new printer : any thoughts ?
On 12/10/2013 06:01 PM, Philip Webb wrote: My ancient printer's ink cartridge has finally dried up the mobo in my regular computer accepts only USB. I don't do much printing, but occasionally need a few pages. The local store has an HP Deskjet 2510 on sale this week. Does anyone have thoughts or suggestions ? I got tired of dried out cartridges years ago, and bought a Dell colour laser. It was humongous, I got rid of it last year. Then about two months later I went to print something and went Oh, yeah... I found a HP colour laserjet on sale for $145 (it was actually cheaper than the entry level HP BW lasers at the time) and hooked it up using hplip. That's probably a lot more than an inkjet, but if it costs you $50 a page due to dried ink, a couple of times pays for a laser. http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/models/laserjet/hp_laserjet_cp1025.html At least I don't have to worry about cartridges drying up, and this printer is a LOT smaller than the one I had. As a bonus, I found out KitKat can print to this printer using the included HP drivers, if that's an issue for you. Was weird printing a recipe from my phone! Dan
Re: [gentoo-user] how to find whether scanner supported
131224 Dale wrote: Philip Webb wrote: I recently bought an HP 2510 printer-copier-scanner. It prints copies, but Xsane can't find it as a scanner. I suspect the problem is that Sane-backends doesn't support it : how do I find out whether that is the case ? It seems hplip supports it. Is this your printer? http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/models/deskjet_aio/deskjet_2510_series.html Yes. Thanks for this link, which seems to lead to the answer. It says it scans, but see Note 3, which refers onwards to Note 9 , which says that there mb a different API called 'digital sending' refers to Node 302 , which says some multifunction products (MFPs) don't support SANE, but scan directly to a shared directory, which you have to set up (Node 334). The MFP then accesses the directory via a network, which you have to set up as well for the MFP. That suggests there's no Sane backend that there's no Xsane fine-tuning, while you have to jump thro' many hoops to scan at all. If that is correct, I'll stick to my Epson, which works well enough. Does anyone have any further comments or suggestions ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
[gentoo-user] foo2zjs make install error
Hi all: I'm having a problem installing a print driver, foo2zjs, downloaded and compiled from source. This is a driver for a HP P1505n printer. (hplip is not an option as this printer needs further firmware that is not generally available). The error message I'm getting at the make install command is: Error - foomatic-rip is not installed! Install foomatic packages for your OS make [install test] Error 1 My box is a Dell 780 with no-frills Gentoo. I also have a Dell 3500 with the same basic setup, but on that box the install went fine and the printer works. To stay out of TL;DR territory, a short list of what I have checked so far: - re-installed cups, cups-filters, foomatic-db, and foomatic-db-engine, with the same use flags on both working and non-working installs; - removed the foo2zjs package and re-downloaded and compiled from scratch; - started and stopped the cupsd service; - eix shows same cups and foomatic packages installed on each; - neither the working nor non-working install use hplip; - tried the Gentoo package foo2zjs- and the temp.build.log threw the exact same error as building from source; - Googled error message - no useful information. (As a side note, I cannot install foomatic-filters, as it conflicts with cups-filters, which has dependency issues and cannot be removed.) If anyone could point me in the right direction, I'd be appreciative. If further information is needed, please let me know. Thanks!
[gentoo-user] printing problems
I am trying to get printing to work properly in my recently built machine. 'hp-probe' identifies my printer as 'HP Deskjet 2510 series'. When I print a text file from Gvim or a ps file from LO, there are blank bands across the page, omitting lines or parts of letters. I have managed to get Kwrite to print properly via file -> print -> options -> layout -> schema : when set to 'normal' 'KDE' 'Vim dark', everything comes out as it should (there are some amusing color effects, but it's all there). Alongside Gentoo, I installed Mint 17.2 (Xfce), which started printing properly via Gedit + LO after I set print quality to 'high' via the 'http://localhost:631' menu (I didn't go back to test Gvim there, but assume it would work too). Gedit has its own internal print-quality menu too. I have compared /etc/hp/hplip.conf in Gentoo vs Mint : the Gentoo version of Hplip is 3.14.10 , Mint has 3.15.2 ; the Gentoo version of Cups is 2.0 , Mint has 1.7 ; the Gentoo version of Hplip was built with 'foomatic-ppd-install=no', the Mint version with '...=yes'. I can contrive to print text + ps files easily by copying them to an appropriate partition & rebooting into Mint, but Gentoo is supposed to make these things easier, not more difficult. Finally, I've never got the print icon in Gvim to work : I use the 'prtdialog' plug-in, which prints, but only badly as above. Can anyone offer advice or suggestions ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
Re: [gentoo-user] Quick check on net-print/hplip-3.14.10
On Thursday 17 Sep 2015 23:33:57 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 18/09/2015 00:26, Mick wrote: > > On Thursday 17 Sep 2015 20:25:57 Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> On 17/09/2015 19:36, Mick wrote: > >>> OK, I managed to get 10 minutes access to the offending box and I > >>> remerged hplip. Guess what? The 930c driver re-appeared on the list. > >>> So I am now doubly paranoid that the btrfs is playing up ... > >> > >> Or, someone deleted the ppd and the re-emerge put it back :-) > > > > Hmm ... now, who would that be, when I'm the only one with root access to > > this box? O_o > > > >> As the saying goes "never ascribe to malice what is adequately explained > >> by stupidity" > > > > Yeah, right, I don't have to answer that. :-p > > When you said "I managed to get 10 minutes access to the offending box" > I figured it wasn't yours, that it had users, and you were the guy with > the problem of sorting it out, and you needed some pointy haired bosses' > permission to do it at all. > > Seems that's not actually the case? It is indeed the case, with the pointy haired boss being the missus and the box in question a production desktop. :-)) I have to admit that I can't recall messing up with the ppd files, or indeed ever using hpijs on this box. A couple of months ago the akonadi DB went sideways and kmail played up as a result. Again I was suspicious of btrfs, but neither the logs nor fsck showed up anything. The OS is on a single SSD (no RAID), with some caches and busy fs mounted on a spinning disk. I have some backups in case of DR, but after a while a corrupted fs will have migrated to the back ups. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Brother Printer
On December 11, 2016 11:57:07 PM GMT+01:00, Daniel Frey <djqf...@gmail.com> wrote: >On 2016-12-11 10:06 AM, siefke_lis...@web.de wrote: >> On Sat, 10 Dec 2016 16:45:46 -0700 >> Alec Ten Harmsel <a...@alectenharmsel.com> wrote: >> >>> I'm on this thread a little late, but does CUPS not work? Every >printer >>> I've set up on a linux box (only a handful, to be fair) has worked >out >>> of the box without extra drivers. >> >> I have try now. With generic driver I play but they give only out >blank >> pages. No text. I have now try with older hp and hplip it work. So I >> think I will buy a HP Device. I write to Brother Support and ask for >> native 64 support and which printer/scanner/fax combi but no answer. >> >> >> Silvio > >I have an HP printer and hplip doesn't work with it, so beware... > >Dan Dan, Which HP printer do you have? I have used several in the past and never had issues with them. One tip though, independent of brand, ink based printers may sound cheap, but I find the ink dries up long before they are supposed to be empty. Never had that problem with laser printers. -- Joost -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
Re: [gentoo-user] new scanner : how to activate for Gentoo : no success
On Friday 05 May 2017 19:27:47 Philip Webb wrote: > 170504 Philip Webb wrote: > > I want to get my new Epson V550 working on Gentoo, > > having successfully installed Epson's driver on Mint. > > > > I installed the Gentoo pkg 'dpkg', which handles .deb archives, > > & listed the content of the 3 .deb files in the Epson driver pkg. > > They cb viewed at http://chass.utoronto.ca/~purslow/test/ > > with names beginning with 'v550'. > > > > It appears that the pkg installs a utility 'iscan', > > a Sane plugin called 'epkowa', which is not available via Sane-backends > > ( /etc/hotplug/usb/libsane.usermap doesn't list it), > > plus some further data files + a lot of dox. > > I've tried 3 methods without success : > (1) install Iscan via Portage & copy the other files in the .deb ; > (2) copy all the files in the .deb (apart from dox) (list checked) ; > (3) try to run the install.sh script. > > None of them succeeds in getting the scanner recognised. > > There is a pkg media-gfx/iscan-plugin-gt-x820 for a V600 : > I could take the V550 back & exchange it for a V600 > & try to install Iscan + data + that plugin. > > Any suggestions are very welcome. If you are going to change it, isn't there a HP device out there that Just Works™ with the hplip and potentially the hplip-plugin packages? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] new scanner : how to activate for Gentoo : further thoughts
170506 Mick wrote: > On Friday 05 May 2017 19:27:47 Philip Webb wrote: >> There is a pkg media-gfx/iscan-plugin-gt-x820 for a V600 : >> I could take the V550 back & exchange it for a V600 >> & try to install Iscan + data + that plugin. > If you are going to change it, isn't there a HP device out there > that Just Works™ with the hplip and potentially the hplip-plugin packages? Very unlikely : I have an HP printer, which also copies & can scan, but it isn't supported by Sane-backends & would require much work. I plan to audit what I've installed carefully today & if I still can't get it to work on Gentoo, I'll file a bug : hopefully, whoever created the plugin for V600 can do another for V550. Also, I'll put the Epson install script on my Internet site ( http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~purslow/test/ ). I can't make sense of it, but perhaps someone here can tell me what it does with the .deb files when it installs them. If it works on Mint, it sb possible to get it to work on Gentoo. Usually in such cases, the secret is finding 1 small item which needs to be fixed & then everything is ok : that's Gentoo's strength. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: network scanner not seen by xsane on *some* systems
On Sat, Jul 07 2012, walt wrote: On 07/07/2012 07:33 AM, Allan Gottlieb wrote: Moreover the new printer entry in cups fails to print a test page (the old, cups-installed, entry continues to work). sigh Once again I forgot my number-one fallback move: I always delete all the existing printer devices after upgrading cups (or hplip) and run hp-setup to reinstall them. It has fixed many similar printing mysteries for me in the past. If in doubt, back up all of your cups configuration files first :) I think I have done that in the past but let's do it again. 1. By mistake I first did the (working) desktop. A. All printers deleted (via CUPS). B. Tried hp-setup. If found the (irrelevant) laserjet and the all in one officejet. But, at the end, said it couldn't install the fax since hplip wasn't build with fax support (correct). C. Everything still works! Can print and scan. 2. Next tried my backup laptop (it does emerge update world a day before the main laptop). It is called oldlap. A. All printers deleted (via CUPS). B. /etc/init.d/cupsd restart C. hp-setup: Tried Installing officejet. Again (correctly) says hplip not build with fax support. D. Fails to print test page (dialog below) E. Can't print test page from CUPS (pending forever). F. Can't scan. xsane says failed to open device 'hpaio:...' G. Tried B-F for the laserjet with same bad result thanks again, allan === hp-setup dialog = oldlap ~ # hp-setup HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.12.6) Printer/Fax Setup Utility ver. 9.0 Copyright (c) 2001-14 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details. (Note: Defaults for each question are maked with a '*'. Press enter to accept the default.) | SELECT CONNECTION (I/O) TYPE | Num Connection Description Type --- 0*usb Universal Serial Bus (USB) 1 net Network/Ethernet/Wireless (direct connection or JetDirect) Enter number 0...1 for connection type (q=quit, enter=usb*) ? 1 Using connection type: net - | SELECT DEVICE | - Num Device URI CUPS Printer(s) --- - 0 hp:/net/Officejet_7300_series?zc=HPCC9932 Officejet_7300_series, Officejet_7300_series, HPCC9932 1 hp:/net/HP_LaserJet_P2055dn?zc=lj2055 HP_LaserJet_P2055dn, HP_LaserJet_P2055dn,lj2055 Enter number 0...1 for device (q=quit) ?0 Setting up device: hp:/net/Officejet_7300_series?zc=HPCC9932 - | PRINT QUEUE SETUP | - Please enter a name for this print queue (m=use model name:'Officejet_7300'*, q=quit) ?ss Using queue name: ss Locating PPD file... Please wait. warning: No PPD found for model officejet_7300 using new algorithm. Trying old algorithm... Found PPD file: drv:///hp/hpcups.drv/hp-officejet_7300_series.ppd Enter a location description for this printer (q=quit) ?ss lan Enter additonal information or notes for this printer (q=quit) ?hp-lip Adding print queue to CUPS: Device URI: hp:/net/Officejet_7300_series?zc=HPCC9932 Queue name: ss PPD file: drv:///hp/hpcups.drv/hp-officejet_7300_series.ppd Location: ss lan Information: hp-lip error: Cannot setup fax - HPLIP not built with fax enabled. - | PRINTER TEST PAGE | - Would you like to print a test page (y=yes*, n=no, q=quit) ? y warning: hp-testpage should not be run as root/superuser. HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.12.6) Testpage Print Utility ver. 6.0 Copyright (c) 2001-14 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details. error: Unable to communicate with device (code=12): hp:/net/Officejet_7300_series?zc=HPCC9932 error: Unable to print to printer. Please check device and try again. note: If an error occured, or the test page failed to print, refer to the HPLIP website note: at: http://hplip.sourceforge.net for troubleshooting and support. Done. oldlap ~ #
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: network scanner not seen by xsane on *some* systems
On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: On Sat, Jul 07 2012, walt wrote: On 07/07/2012 07:33 AM, Allan Gottlieb wrote: Moreover the new printer entry in cups fails to print a test page (the old, cups-installed, entry continues to work). sigh Once again I forgot my number-one fallback move: I always delete all the existing printer devices after upgrading cups (or hplip) and run hp-setup to reinstall them. It has fixed many similar printing mysteries for me in the past. If in doubt, back up all of your cups configuration files first :) I think I have done that in the past but let's do it again. 1. By mistake I first did the (working) desktop. A. All printers deleted (via CUPS). B. Tried hp-setup. If found the (irrelevant) laserjet and the all in one officejet. But, at the end, said it couldn't install the fax since hplip wasn't build with fax support (correct). C. Everything still works! Can print and scan. 2. Next tried my backup laptop (it does emerge update world a day before the main laptop). It is called oldlap. A. All printers deleted (via CUPS). B. /etc/init.d/cupsd restart C. hp-setup: Tried Installing officejet. Again (correctly) says hplip not build with fax support. D. Fails to print test page (dialog below) E. Can't print test page from CUPS (pending forever). F. Can't scan. xsane says failed to open device 'hpaio:...' G. Tried B-F for the laserjet with same bad result thanks again, allan === hp-setup dialog = oldlap ~ # hp-setup HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.12.6) Printer/Fax Setup Utility ver. 9.0 Copyright (c) 2001-14 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details. (Note: Defaults for each question are maked with a '*'. Press enter to accept the default.) | SELECT CONNECTION (I/O) TYPE | Num Connection Description Type --- 0*usb Universal Serial Bus (USB) 1 net Network/Ethernet/Wireless (direct connection or JetDirect) Enter number 0...1 for connection type (q=quit, enter=usb*) ? 1 Using connection type: net - | SELECT DEVICE | - Num Device URI CUPS Printer(s) --- - 0 hp:/net/Officejet_7300_series?zc=HPCC9932 Officejet_7300_series, Officejet_7300_series, HPCC9932 1 hp:/net/HP_LaserJet_P2055dn?zc=lj2055 HP_LaserJet_P2055dn, HP_LaserJet_P2055dn,lj2055 Enter number 0...1 for device (q=quit) ?0 Setting up device: hp:/net/Officejet_7300_series?zc=HPCC9932 - | PRINT QUEUE SETUP | - Please enter a name for this print queue (m=use model name:'Officejet_7300'*, q=quit) ?ss Using queue name: ss Locating PPD file... Please wait. warning: No PPD found for model officejet_7300 using new algorithm. Trying old algorithm... Found PPD file: drv:///hp/hpcups.drv/hp-officejet_7300_series.ppd Enter a location description for this printer (q=quit) ?ss lan Enter additonal information or notes for this printer (q=quit) ?hp-lip Adding print queue to CUPS: Device URI: hp:/net/Officejet_7300_series?zc=HPCC9932 Queue name: ss PPD file: drv:///hp/hpcups.drv/hp-officejet_7300_series.ppd Location: ss lan Information: hp-lip error: Cannot setup fax - HPLIP not built with fax enabled. - | PRINTER TEST PAGE | - Would you like to print a test page (y=yes*, n=no, q=quit) ? y warning: hp-testpage should not be run as root/superuser. HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.12.6) Testpage Print Utility ver. 6.0 Copyright (c) 2001-14 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details. error: Unable to communicate with device (code=12): hp:/net/Officejet_7300_series?zc=HPCC9932 error: Unable to print to printer. Please check device and try again. note: If an error occured, or the test page failed to print, refer to the HPLIP website note: at: http://hplip.sourceforge.net for troubleshooting and support. Done. oldlap ~ # Stupid question...might your firewall be dropping packets? Check your firewall logs. Similarly, is there a difference in network connectivity between the machine
Re: [gentoo-user] printing problems
On Wednesday, November 04, 2015 02:19:40 AM Dale wrote: > J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On Tuesday, November 03, 2015 10:38:18 PM Dale wrote: > >> Alan McKinnon wrote: > >>> On 03/11/2015 18:05, Dale wrote: > >>>> I don't know if this will help or not but since you seem to be grasping > >>>> at straws, grab this one and hold on for dear life. For the longest > >>>> time, every time hplip, cups and friends were updated, I had to delete > >>>> and readd my printer. If I didn't, printing was not going to happen, > >>>> period. I might also add, I'd restart cups just to be sure, after the > >>>> delete and again after the readd. Once I did that, printing worked > >>>> like > >>>> a charm. If I didn't know better, I'd think the ink lasted longer too. > >>>> ROFL Just kidding but . . . . If nothing else works, may want to try > >>>> that. > >>>> > >>>> Oh, the last time I did the setup, I ignored cups completely. I went > >>>> in > >>>> as root and set up the printer using the hplip command. That was at > >>>> least a couple years ago. Since then, whenever I get ready to print, > >>>> and replace the dried out cartridges, it just works. I have a D4260, > >>>> currently out of ink, again. > >>>> > >>>> I think the actual command is hp-setup. I use KDE and that opens a GUI > >>>> to do the set up. Generally, it is just clicking next. It just seems > >>>> to figure out the rest itself, unless you have more than one printer > >>>> hooked up then you may have to select something. > >>>> > >>>> None of this may help but maybe one will. May be worth a shot. ;-) > >>> > >>> That's my experience too. I print very little by for ages now everytime > >>> a change was made to a printer or cups (even teeny minor ones), I'd > >>> delete and re-add all printers plus restart cups. > >>> > >>> Why does cups behave like this? Buggered if I know. I have an > >>> unexpressable opinion based on a certain fruity vendor who seems better > >>> at suing Samsung than actually writing code > >> > >> For some reason, cups just doesn't like HP, at least in my case. I've > >> had that problem for ages until a couple years or so ago. I always used > >> cups to setup and mange the printer. After getting enough of it one > >> day, I stopped cups. I then set up the printer with hplip. It took > >> less than a minute to do to, just keep clicking next for me. After I > >> did that, I don't think I have had to delete/readd the printer since. I > >> know I have updated both cups and hplip too, likely several times. No > >> telling what has been updated that they depend on. > >> > >> Maybe I got lucky or maybe just not using cups works. Odd thing is, > >> when I rebooted later, cups started automatically and the printer still > >> works and the printer shows up in cups. It's been working ever since. > >> So, kick cups out of the way, set it up using only hplip stuff and see > >> what happens. Heck, it just may work. :/ > >> > >> Now if I can just get Seamonkey and Firefox to stop defaulting to > >> English (United Kingdom) instead of English (United States) I'll be even > >> happier. o_O > >> > >> Dale > >> > >> :-) :-) > >> > >> P. S. I got my elcheapo ebay cartridges today. It still prints fine. > >> > >> :-D Oooo, pretty colors too. > > > > Same here. > > I use hp-setup to configure the printer once and then it "just works" > > without further thinking. (Apart from having to switch it on) > > > > I stopped using inkjet/deskjet/... printers years ago after having another > > one ruined by dried up ink. > > Currently happily using a laserprinter with a network-cable :) > > > > -- > > Joost > > I wish I could get me a laser printer. I'm dipping off into electronics > again and will have to make PCBs and they say laser printers work > better, although I have had a couple tell me ink jets work just as good > now, maybe better. Still, toner doesn't seem to mess up like cartridges > do. Just keep the stuff in a relatively dry spot and it's ready to go > when ever you need to print. I find laser printers to be more expensive initially, but considering the amount of pages I can print per toner cartridge, compared to what I used to get out of the same amount of ink (comparing monetary costs), I find laser printers to be cheaper. Inkjet only seems to work if I print a lot. For occasional printing, lasers are more reliable. But I only print on paper. I though PCBs are hard? How do you get those through a printer? > Glad to know that the way I set up my printer works for someone else > too. Hm. I had to rethink how I did it as it's been working without issue for a few years now. And I do update regularly. -- Joost
Re: [gentoo-user] printing problems
J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Tuesday, November 03, 2015 10:38:18 PM Dale wrote: >> Alan McKinnon wrote: >>> On 03/11/2015 18:05, Dale wrote: >>>> I don't know if this will help or not but since you seem to be grasping >>>> at straws, grab this one and hold on for dear life. For the longest >>>> time, every time hplip, cups and friends were updated, I had to delete >>>> and readd my printer. If I didn't, printing was not going to happen, >>>> period. I might also add, I'd restart cups just to be sure, after the >>>> delete and again after the readd. Once I did that, printing worked like >>>> a charm. If I didn't know better, I'd think the ink lasted longer too. >>>> ROFL Just kidding but . . . . If nothing else works, may want to try >>>> that. >>>> >>>> Oh, the last time I did the setup, I ignored cups completely. I went in >>>> as root and set up the printer using the hplip command. That was at >>>> least a couple years ago. Since then, whenever I get ready to print, >>>> and replace the dried out cartridges, it just works. I have a D4260, >>>> currently out of ink, again. >>>> >>>> I think the actual command is hp-setup. I use KDE and that opens a GUI >>>> to do the set up. Generally, it is just clicking next. It just seems >>>> to figure out the rest itself, unless you have more than one printer >>>> hooked up then you may have to select something. >>>> >>>> None of this may help but maybe one will. May be worth a shot. ;-) >>> That's my experience too. I print very little by for ages now everytime >>> a change was made to a printer or cups (even teeny minor ones), I'd >>> delete and re-add all printers plus restart cups. >>> >>> Why does cups behave like this? Buggered if I know. I have an >>> unexpressable opinion based on a certain fruity vendor who seems better >>> at suing Samsung than actually writing code >> For some reason, cups just doesn't like HP, at least in my case. I've >> had that problem for ages until a couple years or so ago. I always used >> cups to setup and mange the printer. After getting enough of it one >> day, I stopped cups. I then set up the printer with hplip. It took >> less than a minute to do to, just keep clicking next for me. After I >> did that, I don't think I have had to delete/readd the printer since. I >> know I have updated both cups and hplip too, likely several times. No >> telling what has been updated that they depend on. >> >> Maybe I got lucky or maybe just not using cups works. Odd thing is, >> when I rebooted later, cups started automatically and the printer still >> works and the printer shows up in cups. It's been working ever since. >> So, kick cups out of the way, set it up using only hplip stuff and see >> what happens. Heck, it just may work. :/ >> >> Now if I can just get Seamonkey and Firefox to stop defaulting to >> English (United Kingdom) instead of English (United States) I'll be even >> happier. o_O >> >> Dale >> >> :-) :-) >> >> P. S. I got my elcheapo ebay cartridges today. It still prints fine. >> >> :-D Oooo, pretty colors too. > Same here. > I use hp-setup to configure the printer once and then it "just works" without > further thinking. (Apart from having to switch it on) > > I stopped using inkjet/deskjet/... printers years ago after having another > one > ruined by dried up ink. > Currently happily using a laserprinter with a network-cable :) > > -- > Joost > > I wish I could get me a laser printer. I'm dipping off into electronics again and will have to make PCBs and they say laser printers work better, although I have had a couple tell me ink jets work just as good now, maybe better. Still, toner doesn't seem to mess up like cartridges do. Just keep the stuff in a relatively dry spot and it's ready to go when ever you need to print. Glad to know that the way I set up my printer works for someone else too. Hm. Dale :-) :-)
[gentoo-user] hplip upgrade wants qt in spite of USE flags
I'm trying to run my normal upgrade on a gnome-only system. It looks like the 2.7 version of hplip wants qt even though I have the following in my make.conf USE: -kde -qt -qt3 -qt4 Here is the emerge tree output: oberon tmp # emerge -puDtv hplip These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: [nomerge ] net-print/hplip-2.7.10 [1.7.4a-r2] USE=X -doc% -fax -minimal% -parport -ppds -scanner -snmp (-cups%*) (-foomaticdb%) (-qt3%) [nomerge ] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.23-r3 USE=-build -symlink [nomerge ] sys-libs/ncurses-5.6-r2 [5.6-r1] USE=gpm unicode -bootstrap -build -debug -doc -minimal -nocxx -profile% -trace [ebuild U ]sys-libs/gpm-1.20.1-r6 [1.20.1-r5] USE=(-selinux) 561 kB [nomerge ] net-print/hplip-2.7.10 [1.7.4a-r2] USE=X -doc% -fax -minimal% -parport -ppds -scanner -snmp (-cups%*) (-foomaticdb%) (-qt3%) [nomerge ] net-print/foomatic-filters-3.0.20060720 USE=cups [?] [nomerge ] virtual/ghostscript-0 [?] [nomerge ]app-text/ghostscript-esp-8.15.3 USE=X cups gtk xml -cjk -threads [?] [nomerge ] x11-libs/gtk+-2.12.1-r2 USE=X cups jpeg tiff xinerama -debug -doc -vim-syntax [nomerge ] x11-libs/pango-1.18.3 USE=-debug -doc [nomerge ] x11-libs/cairo-1.4.12 USE=X glitz opengl svg -debug -directfb -doc -xcb [nomerge ]media-libs/glitz-0.5.6 [?] [nomerge ] media-libs/mesa-6.5.2-r1 USE=motif nptl -debug -doc -hardened -xcb VIDEO_CARDS=-i810 -mach64 -mga -none -r128 -radeon -s3virge -savage -sis (-sunffb) -tdfx -trident -via [?] [nomerge ] x11-libs/openmotif-2.2.3-r9 [?] [nomerge ] x11-libs/motif-config-0.9-r1 [ebuild U ]app-shells/bash-3.2_p17-r1 [3.2_p17] USE=nls -afs -bashlogger -plugins% -vanilla 2,522 kB [ebuild U ] sys-libs/ncurses-5.6-r2 [5.6-r1] USE=gpm unicode -bootstrap -build -debug -doc -minimal -nocxx -profile% -trace 2,353 kB [ebuild U ] net-print/hplip-2.7.10 [1.7.4a-r2] USE=X -doc% -fax -minimal% -parport -ppds -scanner -snmp (-cups%*) (-foomaticdb%) (-qt3%) 14,104 kB [nomerge ] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.23-r3 USE=-build -symlink [nomerge ] sys-fs/udev-115-r1 USE=(-selinux) [ebuild U ] sys-apps/baselayout-1.12.10-r5 [1.12.9-r2] USE=unicode -bootstrap -build -static 214 kB [nomerge ] net-print/hplip-2.7.10 [1.7.4a-r2] USE=X -doc% -fax -minimal% -parport -ppds -scanner -snmp (-cups%*) (-foomaticdb%) (-qt3%) [ebuild N] dev-python/PyQt-3.17.3 USE=-debug -doc -examples 786 kB [ebuild N] x11-libs/qscintilla-1.7.1 USE=-doc 1,036 kB [ebuild N]x11-libs/qt-3.3.8-r4 USE=cups gif ipv6 mysql opengl xinerama -debug -doc -examples -firebird -immqt -immqt-bc -nas -nis -odbc -postgres -sqlite 16,986 kB [nomerge ] x11-libs/openmotif-2.2.3-r9 [?] [ebuild U ] x11-libs/libXaw-1.0.4 [1.0.3] USE=-debug -xprint 506 kB [nomerge ] dev-python/PyQt-3.17.3 USE=-debug -doc -examples [ebuild N] dev-python/sip-4.7.1 USE=-debug 432 kB [nomerge ] net-print/foomatic-filters-3.0.20060720 USE=cups [?] [nomerge ] net-print/cups-1.2.12-r4 USE=X dbus jpeg nls pam png ssl tiff -ldap -php -ppds -samba -slp [nomerge ] x11-misc/xdg-utils-1.0.2 USE=-doc [ebuild U ]x11-apps/xprop-1.0.3 [1.0.2] USE=-debug 105 kB [nomerge ] x11-libs/libXaw-1.0.4 [1.0.3] USE=-debug -xprint [ebuild U ] x11-libs/libXpm-3.5.7 [3.5.6] USE=-debug 350 kB [nomerge ] dev-python/PyQt-3.17.3 USE=-debug -doc -examples [nomerge ] x11-libs/qt-3.3.8-r4 USE=cups gif ipv6 mysql opengl xinerama -debug -doc -examples -firebird -immqt -immqt-bc -nas -nis -odbc -postgres -sqlite [ebuild U ] x11-libs/libXcursor-1.1.9 [1.1.8] USE=-debug 230 kB [ebuild U ] x11-libs/libSM-1.0.3 [1.0.2] USE=ipv6 -debug 219 kB [ebuild U ]x11-libs/libICE-1.0.4 [1.0.3] USE=ipv6 -debug 247 kB [ebuild U ] x11-libs/libXi-1.1.3 [1.1.2] USE=-debug 243 kB [ebuild U ] media-libs/freetype-2.3.5-r2 [2.3.4-r2] USE=X -bindist -debug -doc -utils% (-zlib%*) 1,250 kB [ebuild U ]x11-libs/libX11-1.1.3 [1.1.2-r1] USE=ipv6 -debug -xcb 1,492 kB [ebuild U ] x11-proto/inputproto-1.4.2.1
Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo rebuild, cups won't work
Kevin O'Gorman wrote on 02/02/08 22:26: I've installed cups and hplip. I cannot follow the Gentoo printing guide, because that worthy document requires me to add hplip to the default runlevel, but hplip does not put anything in /etc/init.d. My printer is an old HP Laserjet 4M, which I usually run as a Postscrpt printer. What have I missed? Run hp-setup You'll probably need to rework your cups config files if you've retained them from the broken install. hp-setup should enable local printing OK. And if it still gives you problems, delete /etc/cups then reemerge cups. I had to do that last part too. The problem is that my printer is on the LPT port (/dev/lp0), and hp-setup does not find it. In fact it has an option for LPT printers, but it is greyed out. The printer is really there: I can print by cat printme /dev/lp0 with a suitably formed printme file (lines need CR, file ends with ^L^D). Hmmm. Digging slightly deeper, I found the /usr/bin/hp-probe program. It lets me specifically request a probe of LPT, but finds nothing there. The printer remains attached. I'm even more deeply stumped than before. Try: hp-setup -i /dev/parport0 See if that helps. Try hp-setup -hfor other options. I take it that your kernel has parallel port support generated, and that you have file permission to access /dev/lp0 ? It runs, but only gives me options for usb and net. This makes some sense since there are no /dev/parport* entries in my system. Nevertheless, I have parallel port support as I understand it. From my kernel (2.6.22-gentoo-r6) .config file: # # Generic Driver Options # CONFIG_STANDALONE=y CONFIG_PREVENT_FIRMWARE_BUILD=y CONFIG_FW_LOADER=m # CONFIG_SYS_HYPERVISOR is not set # CONFIG_CONNECTOR is not set # CONFIG_MTD is not set CONFIG_PARPORT=yparallel port CONFIG_PARPORT_PC=y PC style # CONFIG_PARPORT_SERIAL is not set # CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_FIFO is not set # CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_SUPERIO is not set # CONFIG_PARPORT_GSC is not set # CONFIG_PARPORT_AX88796 is not set CONFIG_PARPORT_1284=y CONFIG_PNP=y # CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG is not set Your kernel set-up looks reasonable to me. I don't have parallel port support generated into my system, as I don't have a parallel printer. On a Centos host with parallel port support, 2.6.18 kernel: CONFIG_PARPORT=m CONFIG_PARPORT_PC=m CONFIG_PARPORT_SERIAL=m # CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_FIFO is not set # CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_SUPERIO is not set CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_PCMCIA=m CONFIG_PARPORT_NOT_PC=y # CONFIG_PARPORT_GSC is not set # CONFIG_PARPORT_AX88796 is not set CONFIG_PARPORT_1284=y CONFIG_PARIDE_PARPORT=m CONFIG_I2C_PARPORT=m CONFIG_I2C_PARPORT_LIGHT=m ls /dev/par* shows: /dev/par0 /dev/parport0 /dev/parport1 /dev/parport2 /dev/parport3 Do you have a standard parallel port, or a special IO card? Have you modified /etc/udev.d rules? I have these (unmodified) entries: rules.d/50-udev.rules:KERNEL==lp*,NAME=%k, GROUP=lp rules.d/50-udev.rules:KERNEL==parport*, NAME=%k, GROUP=lp I'm puzzled by this, as your /dev/lp0 print test worked. The only other suggestion I have would be to try: hp-setup -i /dev/lp0 Don't know if hp-setup will accept this, might be worth having a go. Cheers, Dave -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?
On Thursday 18 December 2008 15:48:25 Mark Knecht wrote: On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 2:24 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Tuesday 16 December 2008 21:48:50 Willie Wong wrote: Basically you just need [...] What else do we need if the printer is an HP DJ4260? This seems to need net-print/hplip installed, but I haven't been able to get this working; it seems I haven't resolved a misconfiguration between hplip and cups. Is the DJ4260 accessible on the cups server using the LPR -P NAME command? Yes; see below. If so, are you attempting to print from Vista or XP? So far I haven't even got Linux printing working; I wanted to succeed with that before trying from XP on my laptop. I've just restored a whistle-clean basic system to the server. Cups is installed, but not hplip. I set these values in cupsd.conf: # Allow remote access Listen *:631 Listen /var/run/cups/cups.sock # Share local printers on the local network. Browsing On BrowseOrder allow,deny BrowseAddress @LOCAL# I don't know what this expands to DefaultAuthType Basic Location / # Allow shared printing... Order allow,deny Allow localhost Allow 192.168.2.* # Wired net including cups server host Allow 192.168.3.* # Wireless net, connecting via gateway Deny all /Location Location /admin Encryption Required Order allow,deny Allow localhost Allow 192.168.2.6 # Workstation, allowed to administer /Location Location /admin/conf AuthType Default Require user @SYSTEM Order allow,deny Allow localhost Allow 192.168.2.6 /Location These are the USE flags I installed CUPS with: [ebuild R ] net-print/cups-1.3.9-r1 USE=acl dbus jpeg pam perl png python ssl tiff -X -avahi -gnutls -java -kerberos -ldap -php -ppds -samba -slp -static -xinetd -zeroconf LINGUAS=en -de -es -et -fr -he -id -it -ja -pl -sv -zh_TW Next I start the printers and use the Find New Printers function of the CUPS Web page to find them. While adding the Deskjet I select the generic deskjet driver that CUPS offers, and the process reports successful addition of the printer. However, when I ask for a test page, it's sent but never arrives. I get a 15%-complete status notified on the Web page, and that's all that happens. This is all via use of the CUPS Web pages, either by running Links on the server, or by running Firefox on the workstation with https://server:631. And yes, to answer your accessibility question: # lpr -P HP_Deskjet_D4200_series_USB_2 /usr/share/cups/data/testprint.ps # lpq -P HP_Deskjet_D4200_series_USB_2 HP_Deskjet_D4200_series_USB_2 is ready and printing RankOwner Job File(s) Total Size active anonymo 1 Test Page 17408 bytes 1st root2 testprint.ps17408 bytes Job 1 in this list is the page I sent from the Web page; job 2 is the one sent from the command line. Nothing ever appeared on the printer. I've tried Allow 192.168.2.0/29 in place of Allow 192.168.2.*; the result is the same. -- Rgds Peter
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: network scanner not seen by xsane on *some* systems (Solved)
On Sat, Jul 07 2012, walt wrote: On 07/07/2012 11:03 AM, Allan Gottlieb wrote: error: Unable to communicate with device (code=12): hp:/net/Officejet_7300_series?zc=HPCC9932 error: Unable to print to printer. Please check device and try again. Make me want to throw your laptop out of my window :) You can ping your printer, so I'd want to know what network traffic is going/coming from cups/hplip, if any. (I really like ngrep because it's absolutely trivial to use, so that's the tool I would use.) I saw this simple test on the hplip debugging website: Determine the IP address of your printer by printing out the network configuration page (or if you know it or can determine it in another way) Run: $ hp-makeuri ip-address For example: $ hp-makeuri 192.168.1.1 This will result in a device URI printed to the console. For example: hp:/net/Officejet_9100_series?ip=192.168.1.1 Copy this device URI Open the CUPS UI: http://localhost:631 (or YasT, etc) and install the printer by pasting the generated URI. I noticed that your hp:/etc URI looks reasonable, but I'd try using the ip address directly as an experiment. It's very quick even if it's useless :) OK lets try (on oldlap, where I tried yesterday and previously today) 1. Remove all printers (via cups) 2. hp-makeuri 192.168.1.50 CUPS URI: hp:/net/Officejet_7300_series?ip=192.168.1.50 SANE URI: hpaio:/net/Officejet_7300_series?ip=192.168.1.50 HP Fax URI: hpfax:/net/Officejet_7300_series?ip=192.168.1.50 3. Install (via cups) hp:/net/Officejet_7300_series?ip=192.168.1.50 Prints fine. 4. xsane hpaio:/net/Officejet_7300_series?ip=192.168.1.50 WORKS !! 5. xsane no arguments WORKS !! Let's try ajglap now (main laptop) 1. Remove all printers (via cups). 2. hp-makeuri 192.168.1.50 CUPS URI: hp:/net/Officejet_7300_series?ip=192.168.1.50 SANE URI: hpaio:/net/Officejet_7300_series?ip=192.168.1.50 HP Fax URI: hpfax:/net/Officejet_7300_series?ip=192.168.1.50 3. Install (via cups) hp:/net/Officejet_7300_series?ip=192.168.1.50 Prints fine. 4. xsane hpaio:/net/Officejet_7300_series?ip=192.168.1.50 Works 5. xsane no arguments Works Walt and michael, thanks so much. Walt, At least for me hp-setup is now replaced by hp-makeuri/cups as the favorite way to reinstall printers after an hplip or cups emerge. Again thank you. I can remember the last time I could print on both printers from all three system and could run xsane on all three as well. allan
[gentoo-user] advice on transitioning from package.use file to package.use directory
Having read the email exchange on the possibility of using
'package.use' as a directory, I thought I would give that a try.
Here is what I have attempted so far.
cd /etc/portage
mv package.use package.use.COPY
mkdir package.use
cd package.use
awk -F'[/\t ]+' '{printf("echo \047%s\047 >> ", $0); sub("-[0-9]+.*",
"", $2); print $2}' ../package.use.COPY
NOTE; the awk output just generates the command lines for the shell to
run. If the output is acceptable, it should be piped through to the
shell.
Here is the contents of the original 'package.use' file:
cat package.use
=dev-lang/python-2.7.9-r1 sqlite
>=dev-ruby/json-1.8.2-r1 ruby_targets_ruby21
>=dev-ruby/racc-1.4.11 ruby_targets_ruby21
>=dev-ruby/rake-0.9.6-r1 ruby_targets_ruby21
>=dev-ruby/rdoc-4.0.1-r2 ruby_targets_ruby21
>=dev-ruby/rubygems-2.2.5-r1 ruby_targets_ruby21
>=media-libs/harfbuzz-0.9.38 icu
>=media-video/ffmpeg-2.6.3 theora
>=sys-libs/zlib-1.2.8-r1 minizip
>=virtual/rubygems-10 ruby_targets_ruby21
gnome-base/gvfs -http gphoto2 mtp
media-video/vlc a52 aac bidi cdda cdio dts dvd flac freetype gnutls
httpd libass live lua mad matroska mpeg ogg oggvorbis qt4 stream svga
theora vcd vlm wxwindows xv
net-print/hplip scanner qt4
sys-apps/busybox -pam
sys-devel/gcc objc
sys-process/cronie anacron
x11-base/xorg-server udev
xfce-extra/xfce4-power-manager -udisks
xfce-extra/xfce4-sensors-plugin hddtemp lm_sensors
NOTE: There are two entries for 'rubygems' there.
Here is the awk script output:
echo '=dev-lang/python-2.7.9-r1 sqlite' >> python
echo '>=dev-ruby/json-1.8.2-r1 ruby_targets_ruby21' >> json
echo '>=dev-ruby/racc-1.4.11 ruby_targets_ruby21' >> racc
echo '>=dev-ruby/rake-0.9.6-r1 ruby_targets_ruby21' >> rake
echo '>=dev-ruby/rdoc-4.0.1-r2 ruby_targets_ruby21' >> rdoc
echo '>=dev-ruby/rubygems-2.2.5-r1 ruby_targets_ruby21' >> rubygems
echo '>=media-libs/harfbuzz-0.9.38 icu' >> harfbuzz
echo '>=media-video/ffmpeg-2.6.3 theora' >> ffmpeg
echo '>=sys-libs/zlib-1.2.8-r1 minizip' >> zlib
echo '>=virtual/rubygems-10 ruby_targets_ruby21' >> rubygems
echo 'gnome-base/gvfs -http gphoto2 mtp' >> gvfs
echo 'media-video/vlc a52 aac bidi cdda cdio dts dvd flac freetype
gnutls httpd libass live lua mad matroska mpeg ogg oggvorbis qt4
stream svga theora vcd vlm wxwindows xv' >> vlc
echo 'net-print/hplip scanner qt4' >> hplip
echo 'sys-apps/busybox -pam' >> busybox
echo 'sys-devel/gcc objc' >> gcc
echo 'sys-process/cronie anacron' >> cronie
echo 'x11-base/xorg-server udev' >> xorg-server
echo 'xfce-extra/xfce4-power-manager -udisks' >> xfce4-power-manager
echo 'xfce-extra/xfce4-sensors-plugin hddtemp lm_sensors' >>
xfce4-sensors-plugin
The two 'rubygems' entries I had in the original 'package.use' file
went into a single 'rubygems' file:
cat rubygems
>=dev-ruby/rubygems-2.2.5-r1 ruby_targets_ruby21
>=virtual/rubygems-10 ruby_targets_ruby21
Is this format acceptable? Or should I have used two separate files,
one for 'dev-lang/rubygems', and another for 'virtual/rubygems'?
I have run 'emerge -auUND @world' since the transition, which voiced
no complaints so far.
The list's input would be appreciated.
[gentoo-user] CUPS: Need help setting up my parallel port printer
We got a new printer today. It's the same model as our old printer, so it should work, right? I followed the Gentoo Printing Guide up to the point where one sets up the printer in the CUPS administrative interface. It does not offer me a parallel port choice for the device. My kernel is built with parallel port support and I have modprobed parport and parport_pc: catherine ~ # lsmod | grep parport parport_pc 32868 0 parport26696 1 parport_pc And dmseg is aware of the printer: catherine ~ # dmesg | grep -i print parport0: Printer, EPSON Stylus C88 But on the CUPS interface, I can choose from AppSocket/HPJetDirect Backend Error Handler HP Printer (HPLIP) Internet Printing Protocol (http) Internet Printing Protocol (ipp) LPD/LPR Host or Printer SCSI Printer Serial Port #1 but no parallel port. It used to be on there. How can I get it back, or is parallel port called something else now? -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS can't print
Is it possible the LED display on your LJ4 is broken, and it's in fact trying to display Load A4? Yes, 'H4' could very well be 'A4'. But now, since running emerge -C hpjis and emerge hplip, the error I'm getting is 'W2 INVALID PERS' which, according to the ambiguous error chart taped to the machine, may have something to do with not having Postscript installed. Well, under /usr/portage/virtual there is no postscript but there is ghostscript which *is* installed. 1) pressing the ready or ok button on the printer will cause it to print on the letter paper currently in the tray. (At least, this works the other way round, when a European printer says load letter, but then A4 is c 1 longer than letter). Ready is merely an LED and not a functioning button. There is an 'MP Paper Size' button on top of the printer but clicking it does nothing. FWIW, the printer will print a test page after clicking 'Finish' in hp-setup. But attempting to print any other file results in the invalid personality error mentioned above. mw
Re: [gentoo-user] Best printer to use with Gentoo.
On Wednesday 24 January 2007 17:32, Carl Adams wrote: Daniel Pielmeier wrote: At OpenPrinting there is no record for your HP PSC 1610 but for HP PSC 1600 which should work perfectly. So yours should be working as well i guess! Are you using the HP drivers? Yes, I've downloaded the recommended hpijs driver, and this should work. The problem is using the localhost:631 interface, I don't know either: 1. The device. It's a USB printer, but the choices are: AppSocket/HP JetDirect Backend Error Handler Internet Printing Protocol (http) Internet Printing Protocol (ipp) LPD/LPR Host or Printer SCSI Printer Serial Port #1 Serial Port #2 None of these seem appropriate. Hi, make sure you have hplip running before configuring cups. Then there should appear something like hp:/ in that list. I've PSC 1610 and it works perfectly. I hope it will help, otherwise, feel free to ask :) -- Petr Uzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ : 101606095 Gentoo Linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Printer recommendation
HP have good supports. Take a look here http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/index.html Cheers 2009/8/10 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com Marco wrote: Hi, I intend to buy a new printer and would like to get some recommendations/experiences from you (to be sure to get it working with Linux). Here is what I'd like: - B/W and Color printing - Network attached (LAN) - Mostly used for office documents / rare graphics printing - Reasonably priced refill cartridges - Price up to ~ 180 US$ I am especially interested in your experience to get it working under Linux. Thanks for your tips! -- Best regards, Marco I have always bought HP printers and they work very well. There are a couple other brands that works well, maybe Epson or something, but HP is really good in my opinion. Stay away from Lexmark. I have yet to get one to work under Linux. Unless you can find one that someone tells you works, stay away from Lexmark. That's not a lot of info but it may help a little at least. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Uncle: qt-*:4 dependencies/blocks preventing world update
I finally was able to emerge -NuDav world, and revdep-rebuild passed the system as clean. However, when I try emerge -uDav world again, that same message, or some permutation of it, is presented. I have set the flags dbus qt3support qt3 qt4 and so on. So that's not it. I unmerged a number of the involved packages, that looked something like qt-*. I did this just before running the more or less successful emerge -NuDav world. A week ago, I ran emerge -e world. Perhaps I need to do this again. I've read a plethora of postings, such as a sticky post on the Gentoo Forums, and some of these emails, as well as googling, and tried several things. When this all began, about three weeks ago, or longer, I noticed problems with hplip python I have python 3.1 and python 2.6 installed, Some advice was seen to make sure eselect is pointing to 2.6. I also ran python-updater. A new work week is starting, my system is responding normally, I will avoid KDE4, and type this all shakes itself out, over the next week or so. Thank you to those who have helped. Good luck to others. Alan
[gentoo-user] Running xsane
Hi everyone, I have purchased an HP C4795 Photosmart All-in-One printer, scanner and copier. I have gotten the printer to work fine after installing the unstable version of hplip. The copy mechanism works also. However, I am having trouble with the scanner. I again have installed unstable versions (i.e. ~x86) versions of sane-backends and xsane). If I run xsane as root, the scanner is recognized. However, if I run xsane as a normal user, the device is not recognized. I can't seem to figure out what to change to rectify this - I've tried changing the owner and group on the xsane executable, but this didn't work. The permissions for the xsane executable seem fine. I have added myself to the scanner group, but this doesn't seem to have any affect. Also, despite the fact that the device can be set up wirelessly, I have not done this - I have the unit connected to my computer via USB cable. Any of you gurus have any ideas? Regards, Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org
Re: [gentoo-user] Running xsane
On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 18:34:42 -0500, CJoeB wrote:
I have purchased an HP C4795 Photosmart All-in-One printer, scanner and
copier. I have gotten the printer to work fine after installing the
unstable version of hplip. The copy mechanism works also. However, I
am having trouble with the scanner. I again have installed unstable
versions (i.e. ~x86) versions of sane-backends and xsane). If I run
xsane as root, the scanner is recognized. However, if I run xsane as a
normal user, the device is not recognized.
Your scanner's dev node has can only be read by root, the easiest way to
fix this is with a udev rule, as the node name changes each time you
connect the scanner. This rule works for me, I'm in the canner group,
just change the product and manufacturer strings to match
SYSFS{product}==CanoScan, SYSFS{manufacturer}==Canon, GROUP:=scanner,
MODE:=0660
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[gentoo-user] Re: CUPS - Some apps see printers, some do not
On 02/23/2010 06:23 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I'm looking around in vain for info on why some apps (Open Office apps for instance) see printers while other apps (Evolution and Firefox for instance) do not. Apps that don't work seem to offer print to file and print to LPR. On the other hand Open Office provides only the obscenely ugly CUPS printer name HP_LaserJet_M1522nf_MFP_192.168.1.5. Ugly? I think it's quite fetching, really. Are you sure you're a real computer nerd? I have an HP LaserJet 3015 that works with everything in my gnome DE, but IIRC I struggled until I discovered the net-print/hplip package, which is the opensource driver supplied by HP. It does everything including faxing, printing, and high-res color scanning all from my HP multi-function printer. Does your dad's machine have that package installed and configured?
Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS and hp OfficeJet Pro
On Friday 19 March 2010 05:20:47 Philip Webb wrote: Well, I replaced 'hpijs' with 'hpcups' my printer wouldn't work, so I restored 'hpijs' dropped 'hpcups' all was ok. I considered doing the same for my DJ4260, but I chickened out as I've only just managed to get it working at all after months of struggling, culminating with a complete reinstallation of the server it's connected to. It stays exactly as it is pro tem: [ebuild R ] net-print/cups-1.3.11-r1 USE=X acl dbus jpeg pam perl php png python ssl tiff -avahi -gnutls -java -kerberos -ldap -ppds -samba -slp -static -xinetd -zeroconf [ebuild R ] net-print/hplip-3.9.12-r1 USE=hpcups hpijs libnotify - doc -fax -gtk -minimal -new-hpcups -parport -policykit -qt4 -scanner - snmp -static-ppds -udev-acl 0 kB -- Rgds Peter.
Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS and hp OfficeJet Pro
(I sent this 24 hours ago but it hasn't appeared, so I'm sending it again.) On Friday 19 March 2010 05:20:47 Philip Webb wrote: Well, I replaced 'hpijs' with 'hpcups' my printer wouldn't work, so I restored 'hpijs' dropped 'hpcups' all was ok. I considered doing the same for my DJ4260, but I chickened out as I've only just managed to get it working at all after months of struggling, culminating with a complete reinstallation of the server it's connected to. It stays exactly as it is pro tem: [ebuild R ] net-print/cups-1.3.11-r1 USE=X acl dbus jpeg pam perl php png python ssl tiff -avahi -gnutls -java -kerberos -ldap -ppds -samba -slp -static -xinetd -zeroconf [ebuild R ] net-print/hplip-3.9.12-r1 USE=hpcups hpijs libnotify - doc -fax -gtk -minimal -new-hpcups -parport -policykit -qt4 -scanner - snmp -static-ppds -udev-acl 0 kB -- Rgds Peter.
Re: [gentoo-user] hplip recompiled with scanner use flag now scanning works, printing does not.
Hello Daniel, I have tried both cups webinterface and hp-setup with the same results. My groups are as follows: adm disk lp wheel uucp audio cdrom dialout video games cdrw usb users haldaemon plugdev gdm ubiquitous1980 polkituser scanner Regards, ubiquitous1980 On 23/04/10 19:51, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: 2010/4/23 ubiquitous1980 nixuser1...@gmail.com: Daniel, Some additional info in the log file: So your device uses the scanner group where mine uses the lp group. From your log file I see you are in the scanner and the lp group, so you should have the appropriate permissions to access the device. Nevertheless can you post the the groups your user is in by entering groups on the commandline Also did you add your printer through the cups webinterface or hp-setup? -- Daniel Pielmeier
Re: [gentoo-user] hplip recompiled with scanner use flag now scanning works, printing does not.
Daniel,
I have found the line which is at fault in xx-libsane.rules. Problem
is, what we are doing is a work around:
# Hewlett-Packard Photosmart C5100 series
ATTRS{idVendor}==03f0, ATTRS{idProduct}==5811, MODE=0664,
GROUP=lp, ENV$
I have changed the group to lp from scanner so that I could maintain the
file number. Problem is, if we have MODE=0664, those in the scanner
group should be able to access the printer. Do you think this suggests
a deeper bug? I created a testfile in my home directory with stickybits
set to 0664. I then set ownership to root:scanner. Of course, I could
edit the file, as I am in the scanner group. This makes me wonder why
the rules did not apply in /dev/bus/usb/005/005 when this file was set
to 0664 and group to scanner. I know for sure that the group was
scanner, but I cannot be sure that the file was truly set to 0664.
For now I have the intra-config file workaround. I will see if I can
mess with things a bit to get things working.
Thanks
ubiquitous1980
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USB printer and new cups
Alex Schuster wrote: walt writes: On 05/15/2010 04:01 PM, Dale wrote: Just for reference, this is my USE flags: USE=X avahi dbus gnutls java jpeg ldap pam perl png ppds python ssl tiff zeroconf -acl -kerberos -php -samba -slp -static -xinetd Good grief, Dale, you're almost stark nekkid! Where are all the rest of your useflags? That was my first impression also, but those are only the USE flags for cups. Mine are a little different, but I have another cups version (Dale does not even seem have a usb USE flag): USE=X acl dbus java jpeg ldap linguas_de pam perl php png python samba slp ssl tiff usb -debug -gnutls -kerberos -static -xinetd) Wonko I noticed that but my cups version does not appear to even use the usb USE flag. It's not enabled, but it is not disabled either. I do have usb enabled globally tho. Strange but my printer works fine. This made me think, hplip is not running anymore. This is weird. Printers on this time too. lol Dale :-) :-)
[gentoo-user] Seamonkey 2.0.5 crashes on print
Hello, Seamonkey 1.18 worked and printed just fine to my HP HP_Officejet_Pro_8500_A909g HP Officejet Pro 8500 . Now recently cups, hplip and many packages where updated. I can print using 'lp' commands from the command line to this printer. The printer test page, via 631:localhost print is fine. On seamonkey under file these 3 buttons instantly crash seamonkey: print print preview page setup equery depgraph --depth=1 cups yields a very long list of candidate software to maybe rebuild? emerge -Dp $(qlist -I -C cups) yeilds a very short list (upon rebuilding does not fix problem): [ebuild R ] net-print/cups-1.4.4 [ebuild R ] net-print/libgnomecups-0.2.3 What shall I use to determine what next to rebuild? On the cups maybe broken side? On the 'seamonkey' may need a rebuilt dependency? Suggestions on flushing out a logical coarse of action/repair is most welcome.. http://631:localhost/admin all looks fine. James ... When all else fails, blame Python, that's why it's SLOTTED! ...
Re: [gentoo-user] For net-print/hplip users
walt wrote: I've just spent an annoying two days trying to un-break my HP multifunction printer/fax/scanner, and I hope I can spare some of you the same trouble. My symptoms were that I couldn't send a fax using hp-sendfax, which has been working very well for years -- until now. After much floundering I finally tried deleting my existing cups printers and allowing hp-setup to create new ones. All better now :) There may be more than one way to delete cups printers, I dunno, but I used the cups http interface by typing 'http://localhost:631' in my firefox URL bar (cupsd must be running for this to work). I have found in the past that anytime I update hp* or cups, I need to delete and set up my printer again. Sometimes it works but is flakey and sometimes it doesn't print at all. Deleting and adding again is the only fix I have found that works. Sort of weird how that works tho. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] net-print/hplip-3.11.5 compile fails
Daniel Pielmeier wrote: Dale schrieb am 19.06.2011 01:35: Hi, Did my sync and upgraded some stuff then ran into this hiccup. I posted the console output only this time. If someone else has ran into this and has a fix, then we are good to go. If this is a first timer, I'll post the rest of the info if needed. I looked on bgo and the forums with no luck. I don't recall seeing this on this list either. Ideas? Oh, I did run etc-update and then did env-update and source /etc/profile just in case some other update changed something. No joy there either. Looks like this is an issue with cups-1.5. If you really need it, you can try the attached patch. I have not tested it but it should do the trick. Should I report it as a bug or is it already a known issue? Dale :-) :-)
[gentoo-user] Re: cups 1.3 - 1.4 no more avahi?
Michael George george at mutualdata.com writes: http://localhost:631/ 1.4.7. I have Show printers shared by other systems enabled. I notice that there is no more avahi USE flag for 1.4. I had that enabled for 1.3 and the Macs found the printer automagically. OK so I'm no cups whiz, but, you may want to use the localhost access from a web browser to cups on one of your macs and get printing working on that one particular mac. Then either copy the files to the other macs or individually set up printing from each system. Over the last year, cups has seem to be a bit flaky and I just find it easier to set up printing again rather than debuging the numerous issues with cups. netprint/HPlip solves many problem with HP printers and cups. I have no idea if other software is needed to compliment cups for brands of printers that are not HP. I have no idea why the printing access stop working, but, the above suggestion should result in a fix for printing from your macs. hth, James
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.
On Wed, 06 Jul 2011 03:08:03 -0500, Dale wrote: It sounds like you need to start with qcheck -aBT and trawl through the output, re-emerging anything questionable. This is what I got: root@fireball / # qcheck -aBT app-office/openoffice sys-auth/consolekit sys-auth/polkit net-nds/openldap app-misc/screen net-print/cups net-print/hplip sys-apps/dbus sys-apps/openrc dev-db/mysql kde-base/kdm root@fireball / # You need to check the full output for each package, some of them may be configuration file changes and re-emerge anything doubtful. I take it you have done a full fsck and smartctl check of the filesystem and drive. -- Neil Bothwick An expert is nothing more than an ordinary person away from home. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] udev-182 already
Yesterday udev-181, today udev-182. The devs are busy :) The update has some interesting changes worth noting, I think. First, udev-182 conflicts with hplip, but only if you have the 'acl' useflag set. The new gentoo-sources-3.3.0 introduces a kernel config item that you need to set according to whether you use openrc or systemd. This reflects the ongoing gentoo effort to support both openrc and systemd, which should be interesting to watch. (I hope.) There is another useflag I've never noticed before, the 'openrc' useflag, which is used by udev to install the openrc init scripts. I just noticed and set that useflag today when updating udev because I'm still using openrc. I don't know what would have happened if I hadn't set it, but it sounds to me like a possible headache.
