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Hi, |
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I tried to create an appropriate news item for the CUPS 1.4 |
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stabilisation. pr@g.o is cced. Release deadline is Monday 13 Sep |
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2010, comments please. |
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Timo Gurr <tgurr@g.o>: |
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> If for whatever reason (broken/old printer drivers) that doesn't work |
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> out there's still the way to install CUPS 1.4 with USE="-usb" to get |
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> the old CUPS 1.3 behaviour back. |
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Title: Upgrade to CUPS 1.4 |
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Author: Christian Faulhammer <fauli@g.o> |
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Author: Timo Gurr <tgurr@g.o> |
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Author: Gentoo Printing Team <printing@g.o> |
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Content-Type: text/plain |
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Posted: 2010-09-13 |
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Revision: 1 |
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News-Item-Format: 1.0 |
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Display-If-Installed: <net-print/cups-1.4 |
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CUPS 1.4 is a major update in printing support and thus may cause some |
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problems when coming from version 1.3. Most users should see a smooth |
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update, although only net-print/gutenprint and net-print/hplip are |
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considered as supported drivers. If you happen to rely on other |
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drivers for your printer, you may have to research if problems occur. |
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Local USB printers are known to occasionally have issues, which can be |
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resolved in most cases by the following steps: |
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1. Disable usblp in your kernel configuration by setting |
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CONFIG_USB_PRINTER=n. Don't forget to rebuild the kernel and reboot |
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with that new image. |
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2. Delete /etc/cups. |
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3. (Re-)install CUPS 1.4 with USE="usb". |
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4. Configure printer(s) from scratch via the CUPS web interface. |
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5. If your printer is a multifunction device, be sure you got the udev |
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rules setting the device permissions in shape so CUPS can access the |
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device. |
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If you still have issues, you can revert to the old CUPS 1.3 behaviour |
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by setting USE="-usb" on net-print/cups. |
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V-Li |
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-- |
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Christian Faulhammer, Gentoo Lisp project |
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<URL:http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/lisp/>, #gentoo-lisp on FreeNode |
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<URL:http://gentoo.faulhammer.org/> |
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