Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Dale <dalek1967@×××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS problem
Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 01:02:51
Message-Id: 47817A18.50501@bellsouth.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS problem by "Alan E. Davis"
1 Alan E. Davis wrote:
2 > Yes. Even installed as hplip, when jobs are printed, they are
3 > immediately marked as "stopped" in the jobs interface. There is no
4 > indication that the printer is on line at all, except that it shows up
5 > as Ready.
6 >
7 > Thank you,
8 >
9 > Alan
10 >
11 > On Jan 7, 2008 10:24 AM, Dale <dalek1967@×××××××××.net> wrote:
12 >
13 >> Alan E. Davis wrote:
14 >> I have installed two or three times, deleted /etc/cups and reinstalled
15 >> the printer. It showed up as an HPLIP device when installing, w/ CUPS
16 >> and/or the kde printer utility. NOtably the utility OR the
17 >> localhost:631 interface did not show any option for a USB printer.
18 >> The address that ended up being used was a usb:<printername>. When I
19 >> get gentoo booted up I'll look at it again. For now, I have to print,
20 >> so I've installed Ubuntu on another partition. Printing works fine
21 >> there, so that's a start.
22 >>
23 >> Thank you,
24 >>
25 >> Alan
26 >>
27 >> On Jan 7, 2008 2:48 AM, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote:
28 >>
29 >>
30 >> On Sunday 06 January 2008, Dale wrote:
31 >>
32 >>
33 >> Alan E. Davis wrote:
34 >>
35 >>
36 >> Any ideas?
37 >>
38 >>
39 >> I ran into something similar to the a while back and I had to un-merge
40 >> cups, delete the config files, then reemerge cups and reconfigure my
41 >> printer. Keep in mind that when you unmerge something, the config
42 >> files remain in /etc unchanged.
43 >>
44 >> Assuming that you have set the correct device in the GUI for your printer,
45 >> then the most likely error is that your have not provided the correct path
46 >> for it. Show us what you have defined the path as in case we can help.
47 >> --
48 >> Regards,
49 >> Mick
50 >>
51 >>
52 >>
53 >>
54 >>
55 >>
56 >> They recently changed it over to hplip. Is that installed on your system?
57 >>
58 >> Dale
59 >>
60 >> :-) :-)
61 >>
62 >>
63 >
64 >
65 >
66 >
67
68 One of the things I did when I ran into this was to remove all printers
69 and use hp-setup to set up the printers. You tried that? It should
70 have mentioned this when hplip was installed but sometimes we miss those
71 messages. ;-)
72
73 Other than this, I may be out of ideas.
74
75 Dale
76
77 :-) :-)