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From: Bill Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Printer isn't working. Help, please!
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 03:20:48
Message-Id: 1343186280.10319.69.camel@troll
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Printer isn't working. Help, please! by Dale
1 On Tue, 2012-07-24 at 21:54 -0500, Dale wrote:
2 > Paul Hartman wrote:
3 > > On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Alan Mackenzie <acm@×××.de> wrote:
4 > >> Evening, Experts!
5 > >>
6 > >> My printer isn't printing.
7 > >>
8 > >> More precisely, when in CUPS 1.5.2 (localhost:631), CUPS fails to find
9 > >> the printer. When I click on "Find New Printers" it comes back with
10 > >> "Available Printers - No Printers Found.".
11 > >>
12 > >> My system has been like this since I converted back from mdev to udev.
13 > >> Though I have just built Linux 3.3.8 in the hope that a new kernel build
14 > >> would help. ;-(.
15 > >>
16 > >> Help would be most appreciated.
17 > >>
18 > >> TIA!
19 > > I had to blacklist the usblp module for CUPS to work with my printer. FWIW. :)
20 > >
21 > >
22 >
23 >
24 > I think I read something about this a while back. Maybe google can turn
25 > up a reason why since my memory is like a screen door, only catches some
26 > stuff but lets everything else flow right through. ;-)
27 >
28 > Since I have not had any trouble with my printer, I bet it was on this
29 > mailing list or KDE's mailing list. Those are the only two I subscribe
30 > to.
31 >
32 > Dale
33 >
34 > :-) :-)
35 >
36
37 This broke my printing as well - I went the route of taking the module
38 out of the kernel config. But what I didnt resolve to my satisfaction,
39 is what is the best solution? - there are two that work but which
40 *should* we use?
41
42 BillK

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