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eric & rosi wrote: |
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> I would like to help with gentoo, as I use it and love it, but I don't |
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> see a corrections link for: |
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> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/printing-howto.xml#hplip |
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> |
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> First off, great guide, worked fine < 5 minutes to get printing (less |
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> compile time). |
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> Printer is an HP PSC 1210, so I installed cups/started cups, then |
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> hplip. However, in the cups web interface, the driver did Not appear |
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> right away, in fact the incorrect one which tries to go straight to the |
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> usb printer was the only one that showed up at first ?? |
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> |
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> A re-install of cups (and restart), and the correct driver appeared. |
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> I un-installed each product and tried again to diagnose what is actually |
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> required: |
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> Only a restart of cupsd ( WITH hplip started) is required. This |
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> problem is re-creatable after installing and can be re-created any |
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> number of times. |
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> |
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> As it potentially can confuse people to see only the wrong straight-USB |
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> option and not the right one, can I reccommend changing the following line: |
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> When the emerge process has finished, the printer drivers will be |
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> available through the CUPS web interface. |
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> TO: |
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> --------------------------------- |
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> When the emerge process has finished, the printer drivers will be |
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> available through the CUPS web interface (a restart of cups is required |
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> after hplip is started). |
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> NOTE: This order dependency is not true to use Defined printers, order |
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> is only important for adding a printer. |
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> I tested this twice, and I believe it to be correct. |
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> All product versions are current stable branch ( no ~ flags for these |
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> products). |
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> HTH |
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> Eric Aksomitis |
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> aksomitis@××××.com |
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Thank you for reporting this. Errors, corrections and suggestions in |
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Gentoo documentation can be submitted in our bug tracking system at: |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Documentation |
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I've forwarded this to the Gentoo Documentation Project. |
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Thanks again |
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--Curtis |
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