Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Printer not working after world update
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 17:55:22
Message-Id: 201010150834.09484.michaelkintzios@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Printer not working after world update by Vincent Launchbury
1 On Friday 15 October 2010 05:15:03 Vincent Launchbury wrote:
2 > On 10/14/10 13:45, Mick wrote:
3 > > Have you tried unmasking and using cups-1.4.4-r2 ?
4 >
5 > Thanks! It didn't fix things, but it did lead me to the solution.
6 > Apparently cups 1.4 has much more verbose logging, which pointed me to
7 > an issue with the min12xxw driver. Cups 1.4 doesn't seem to detect USB
8 > printers though, but fixing the driver issue and downgrading back to 1.3
9 > got me printing again :).
10 >
11 > > I came up to some problems as described in a previous thread and some
12 > > nice people in this list suggested to use a later version, which fixed
13 > > some (but not all) of my problems.
14 >
15 > I guess each version has it's pros and cons. Thanks for the pointer.
16
17 You're welcome. Have a look at the 1.4.4-r2 USE flags. There's a usb flag
18 there which allows cups to access raw usb devices directly - you may not need
19 another driver for your printer.
20
21 Regards,
22 Mick

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