Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Quick check on net-print/hplip-3.14.10

[Mick]

On Thursday 17 Sep 2015 01:45:14 walt wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Sep 2015 22:22:32 +0100
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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


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[gentoo-user] Re: Quick check on net-print/hplip-3.14.10

[james]

Mick  gmail.com> writes:

> Thank you wabe.  This is just how I recalled this should be and confirms my 
> suspicions that hpijs is not needed.  I am at a loss as to why 930c suddenly 
> disappeared from the list of available drivers.  I am also at the latest 
> stable hplip-3.14.10.


Hello Mick,

This package cannot hurt. It's probably not the problem but you never know.
I've used it to fix other things.  I assuming you got it hook up on usb?

sys-apps/hwids


Your 930C Deskjet is in there

https://usb-ids.gowdy.us/usb.ids


Cups is a funny (not so funny, actually) app. They fix one thing
and hose another, all the time.

I keep many backups of /etc/cups as the upgrade sometime modify
perfectly fine files. If the hwids does hot help, then
examine the usb bus to makesure it stillworks. My hp printer
qot real intermittant on the ethernet. The plastic part of the 
RJ45 connector broke, inside. Stange failure, so I just tape
the ethernet cable.   You got somthing weird. Check the data
cable, as I assumed it was USB.

hth,
James

[gentoo-user] Re: Quick check on net-print/hplip-3.14.10

[walt]

On Wed, 16 Sep 2015 22:22:32 +0100
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.

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.