Symptoms of this bug still appear on Lucid with the latest packages.
I've filed a new bug and marked it as duplicate of this bug. Can someone
please verify if bug 550764 qualifies as a duplicate?
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As this bug here was solved I wouldn't duplacte bug #550764 and reopen
this one again.
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Is there some fixes that you need to apply to the brother-cups-
wrapper-laser package as you did for brother-cups-wrapper-extra package?
No.
Can you review and test the debdiff and confirm to Till if he can
upload it?
OK
@ Till:
Yes, you can upload it.
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Till : Sorry that I made it complicate, you can also upload last debdiff
for bug #251972
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/17144325/debdiff-laser
FriedChicken : Thanks again for your work! :)
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Hi,
I had a look at the packages.
They seem to be working so I didn't had to change my packages since
some time. They can be found at my PPA:
http://ppa.launchpad.net/domlyons/ubuntu/pool/main/b/
Although I didn't touch brother-cups-wrapper-laser I applied the
debdiff. But I couldn't upload it
FriedChicken : Looking at your repository, I see that you worked on
brother-cups-wrapper-extra packages, but I don't see brother-cups-
wrapper-laser package? This bug report is currently reported for laser
and extra packages, is that wrong? If yes, can you update the bug report
so it shows really
FriedChicken : I attach a debdiff that contains all the changes you
applied to the package. I fixed your changelog description to be
intrepid instead of hardy and added LP: field with correct syntax so
this bug gets automatically closed when the package gets uploaded. I
built this package and it
Saïvann, debdiff is OK.
FriedChicken: Can you please post a debdiff with both your fix for this
bug and the removal of the csh dependency from Saïvann? Thanks.
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Hi Till and Saïvann,
yes I can do that. But please give me some time. I hope I can do that
tomorrow.
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Just letting you know that it works like expected (including auto-config) under
Intrepid Ibex.
This was just tested with a MFC 5440CN.
Installed the packages from the repos, plugged the printer in and it worked. I
was even able to change the paper size to A4.
Thank you for the good work, Fried
FriedChicken: Congratulation and many thanks, according to tester
comments, your work gives relevant results! If you consider that your
fix is mature and ready for intrepid, can you ask Till Kamppeter to
review and upload your changes to intrepid? The Release candidate
approach so we should not
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HI FC:
I completely uninstalled the Brother laser CUPS and lpr drivers.
Reinstalled including the common which did, in fact, add the brPrintList.
However, with this fix, still unable to change printer settings.
Now...if I change the name of the printer in brPrintList from MFC-7420 to
MFC7420 (no
Hi Jeff, thank you fot testing.
You're right again. I copied the printer models from the compatibility list but
forgot that the driver expects them to be listed without hyphen. I've corrected
that and uploaded it to PPA. The new package should be built in the next
(half?) hour.
Now everything
Hi FC:
The latest package works perfectly :-)
However, although the printer IS detected (it shows it connected to the USB
port), when I click on the printer and advance to the printer model selection
screen and select Brother none of the for CUPS options appears. If I
click on the Other button
The latest package works perfectly :-)
Thank you for your help
However, although the printer IS detected (it shows it connected to the USB
port), [...]
I wondered if the System Config Printer applet doesn't detect and
configure your printer. I didn't mean CUPS itself. But it's interesting
No--it was not listed under the unpatched package either.
So...configuration was not automatic
It asks me to select a printer from the list, and when I choose the Brother
printers from the list of brands, the MFC-7420 is not on the list.
--Jeff
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Well, it should be the best if you opened a new bug.
I tried it on another machine, too, but is wasn't reproducible, neither with
original packages nor my patched ones.
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@ Jeff
Please execute this command sudo echo MFC7420 /usr/Brother/inf/brPrintList
and then try it again.
I've never used strace before but if I interprete the output correctly
your printer has to be listed in this file.
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Hi FC:
Unfortunately, the sudo echo command gave me a permission denied (don't know
why). Sudo has always worked perfectly for me in the past, and continues to
work properly for other commands.
Nonetheless, when I created a file called /usr/Brother/inf/brPrintList and
listed MFC7420 on the
Oh, sorry. I forgot that echo doesn't work with sudo (that's quite
complicated). But you've done it right. So brPrintList is the problem
that needs to be fixed.
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Hi FC:
Note that there is another file: brPrintListij which contains a list of
printers.
When I added MFC7420 to that list, it did NOT fix the problem :-(
I had to make a new file as described above
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Yes, the problem was that brPrintList was included in laser1 but only
contained the laser1-printers. I've moved brPrintList to common and
added the printer models from the laser packages.
Please try the following:
- remove brPrintList
- enable my PPA again if you've deactivated it:
deb
Seems to be a more general problem which doesn't only affect the extra-
packages.
I would offer to fix all affected packages if I knew that they will be
included in Ubuntu.
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FriedChicken, tell me when you have fixed them and I will upload them
for you.
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I am having the same problem with a Brother MFC7420 printer.
Paper size change via Applications, Kubuntu control panel, and CUPS server are
not recognized.
However, I can change the settings by changing the appropriate /usr/Brother/inf
file
Changing permissions had no effect.
I added the ppa
Till : My knowledge is not sufficient to comment on FriedChicken so you
don't need to wait for my comments on this, FriedChicken works seems to
be very good. when you have time for it, your review would be
appreciated. Thanks for the time you spend on it.
FriedChicken : We still have a lot of
I've patched one of the PPDs and it seems to work.
Shall I try to build a package that fixes this for all PPDs or isn't it
worth the trouble? Saïvann told me that my packages are not in Intrepid.
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The trick I mentioned above https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source
/brother-lpr-drivers-extra/+bug/206365/comments/49 isn't necessary any
longer. I have uploaded a new brother-lpr-drivers-common package.
@ Till:
The Brother drivers (at least them for inkjet printers) don't use the
postscript
FriedChicken, so leave the PPDs as they are. They are reported to work
here and so we can accept them. So can I upload yout curremt package
versions into the distro?
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OK, I missed your last post ...
Yes, you can upload it.
Shall I patch the PPDs anyhow sometime?
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@ Till:
As I saw now the functionality for handling resolution and paper type
separately is already implemented in the script.
So the the work would mainly be to separate this option inside the PPDs
(there's no paper type section till now). Probably some constraints are needed
so I have to read
As I found out the writing permissions aren't changed on updating but are set
correctly on an new installation. So please try this:
Add the PPA repository
sudo apt-get remove brother-*
sudo rm -r /usr/Brother
sudo apt-get install brother-cups-wrapper-extra
After this it should work.
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Hi, I use a Brother MFC 210C and Ubuntu 8.04.
I can confirm that the patched package provided by you, FriedChicken solves the
problem for me.
Though I had to install it the way you described in your last comment.
Thanks cu
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FriedChicken, your package will probably fix this bug, but it has
another problem:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/ubuntu/brother-cups-wrapper-extra$ cupstestppd
/usr/share/ppd/Brother/brmfc3220c_cups.ppd
/usr/share/ppd/Brother/brmfc3220c_cups.ppd: FAIL
**FAIL** Bad Resolution choice Normal!
@ Till Kamppeter:
Thank you that you had some time to look at my package.
You asked me whether i could fix the PPDs so I took a look at them
again: The problem is that the cupswrapper needs this alphanumerical
resolutions. Changing the PPDs would make it necessary to rewrite quiet
huge parts of
FriedChicken, I did not check whether you have introduced the choices
Normal, Fine, and Photo for the Resolution options. If it was
Brother and if CUPS accepts these PPD files when creating a print queue
and printing with it, then everything is OK and I will upload the
package. If you have patched
Is there really no one that has got some time to test this package? It
shouldn't take longer than 5-10 minutes and is not risky.
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FriedChicken,
Sorry for not replying any sooner. I checked black and
white printing a colour document, with varying result.
I run Kubuntu, so often I got the KDE-printing
interface. It does not allow for setting the print to
black and white for text documents.
Firefox, OpenOffice.org and the
Sorry, forgot to say that the dialogs can be calles slightly different
as I've re-translated them from German.
OpenOffice is not good for testing this because it allows to make this
settings but they are not passed to the printer driver: Bug #222602
(maybe it's a good idea if somebody could mark
Sorry, forgot to say that the dialogs can be called slightly different
as I've re-translated them from German.
OpenOffice is not good for testing this because it allows to make this
settings but they are not passed to the printer driver: Bug #222602
(maybe it's a good idea if somebody could mark
Thank you Boudewijn
You can use Firefox 3:
Choose a homepage with not only the background colored, for example
http://www.ubuntu.com
File Print Advantaged Set Color/Grayscale to Grayscale Print
Of course you also can try it using KDE Applications (I've tested it using KPDF
and KOffice):
Saïvann, Till, FriedChicken,
Thanks for all the time you put in easier accessible, working drivers
for Brother printers.
As we use a Brother DCP-330c overhere, we will benefit from it as well.
If you need a hand testing, I like to help. I read most of the comments
so far, but -owing to lack of
Hello Boudewijn,
yes, that's fine. We will need some testers in the next time.
Currently we are building some patched packages.
I will have a look at your link on openprinting an will test if this
affects this printer package. But I guess this is only a problem of
laser printers.
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No, till now I don't know how to build packages.
But I still will try to find some testers, it shouldn't be too complicated for
them to copy the two patched files:
/usr/lib/cups/filter/brlpdwrapperDCP110C has to be overwritten by this one
FriedChicken : If you want to try the adventure, I can say you that it's
not so complicate and that if you make some mistakes, it will be easy to
fix them. You can learn about packaging here :
https://help.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/packagingguide/C/
4 indispensable commands :
Get source package :
So what will happen in future? Will there be updated packages?
I could offer to patch all affected scripts and PPDs if I knew that
someone would update the packages.
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I think that your patches are very interesting. However, we would need
somebody else to confirm that they fix the current problem, we can't
upload if it is not correctly tested as we don't want to introduce
accidental bugs. Can you build properly fixed source packages so your
work can be tested by
Well, their answer in short:
We confirmed our mistakes, we appreciate for the notification.
But I'm sorry since thoes are older products, we do not have plans to
release updated drivers.
Notation:
The printer isn't that old and warranty isn't over yet so it would be nice if
they didn't
I've contacted Brother. I'm excited if I'll hear something from them ...
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Well, I've documented all changes I made and for me it's working ...
Yes, they are all bug fixes. Some of the problems I called Category 3 are
working with the original drivers (for example page size), some others (nearly
everithing else, e.g. quality settings) not because the PPD names some
The necessity to patch the PPD files because their options do not
correspond with the scripts do not show only that Brother has produced a
distribution nightmare but also made buggy printer driver packages.
Saïvann, are you sure when you have replaced the equally-named scripts
from all the
FriedChicken : I simply replaced my PPD and filter files by your ones,
which were detected and used by cupsys and I added a printer in cupsys
configured with that driver, I changed the paper type and I applied my
changes, and nothing changed in /usr/Brother/inf/brDCP110Crc . I just
tried again
No, I haven't edited the files anymore since I attached them.
As I found out the printig job is processed after the printer gets connected
and is turned on. Maybe you can simulate this by forcing an udev-rule.
I'll attach my logfile. As you will see the paper format Executive is
*not* forwarded
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After some fighting with Virtualbox I took a closer look at the original
Brother drivers. They also have the Cat. 2-Problems, except of the permissions
its all Brothers fault.
The only difference why it wasn't that obvious at their driver was that they
set A4 as default paper size. And because
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Till : What do you think?
FriedChicken : I looked at your solution and this is strange because you
said that the original Brother ones were working perfectly, but your one
are really different from the original Brother ones, why? Are all these
modifications genuine bug fixes?
Also I tried your
Well, I've found a solution ...
I will upload a patch and explain the solution later on. But first I have to
polish the patch a bit.
As the bug's in the cups-wrapper I set the status as In Progress and
mark the lpr-driver as Invalid.
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It really wasn't easy to find the solution for the problem and it took me some
time ...
(as I've already said I have no experience in bash-scripting)
The problem is a bit complex and consists of three parts:
1. wrong set permissions (already solved, see above)
2. incorrect generated
I have also patched the PPD-file because it had an error, too:
206c209
*OrderDependency: 18 AnySetup *BRColorPaperThick
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*OrderDependency: 18 AnySetup *BRBiDir
I've added resolution-info to the PPD-file. That's not necessary but
nice to have :-)
** Attachment added: Patched version of
Saïvann, can you check whether your fix from bug 219509 also applies
here? Probably you should apply the fix (my approved debdiff) to all
your cups-wrapper packages.
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Till : No it doesn't. I looked a sample of all type of PPDs (ac, bh7,
extra, laser, laser1 mfcsomething) and laser1 was the only one that
had missing in the PPD files. Note that all PPDs files are generated
from a script that contains a sample of the PPD file. The sample for ac,
bh7, extra,
As far as I could analyzed the problem not the lpr-driver but the cupswrapper
has a bug.
In my case the brlpdwrapperDCP110C (or ~MFC210C) filters the cups arguments and
sends them to brprintconfij2 which changes brDCP110Crc. Manually running
brprintconfij2 works but only as root. So the bug is
Well, I still don't know what's the difference in the line withe the
sed-command but I activated debugging for the wrapper-script. I've attached the
log.
For me it seems as if the script (which runs as lp) needs writing access to
/usr/Brother/inf.
Besides: I found /usr/./././Brother/ several
Sorry, one supplement:
Line 462 which I mentioned above hasn't got a difference. Looking at it twice I
recognized that the \ probably only masks the .
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FriedChicken : I will compare all permissions, but before all, did you
test the Brother packages? In my case, the original Brother packages
does not modify anything in /usr/Brother/inf when changing parameters
through cupsys, so we may lose time if we try to find a difference
between the Brother
Yes, the original Brother drivers edit files in /usr/local/Brother/inf/:
As you probably know, the postinstall-script calls a script
(cupswrapperPRINTER) that generates the ppd-file and the cupswrapper-script (in
my case brlpdwrapperDCP110C). Besides of the path the script is exactly the
same
FriedChicken : You can test it, what if you just change the owner and
permissions of /usr/Brother/inf, does it fix the issue ?
sudo chown root:lp /usr/Brother/inf
sudo chmod 775 /usr/Brother/inf
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I'm surprised that this does not happen with actual Brother packages
since when I test them, they have the same behavior and they don't
update /usr/Brother/inf/br*rc and I have no printer to test this
deeper.. Also, Brother website seems to say that changing printer
settings needs to be done
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