Re: [gentoo-user] Printer isn't working. Help, please!

[Michael Mol]

On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 11:18 PM, Bill Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au> wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-07-24 at 21:54 -0500, Dale wrote:
>> Paul Hartman wrote:
>> > On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Alan Mackenzie <acm@×××.de> wrote:
>> >> Evening, Experts!
>> >>
>> >> My printer isn't printing.
>> >>
>> >> More precisely, when in CUPS 1.5.2 (localhost:631), CUPS fails to find
>> >> the printer.  When I click on "Find New Printers" it comes back with
>> >> "Available Printers - No Printers Found.".
>> >>
>> >> My system has been like this since I converted back from mdev to udev.
>> >> Though I have just built Linux 3.3.8 in the hope that a new kernel build
>> >> would help.  ;-(.
>> >>
>> >> Help would be most appreciated.
>> >>
>> >> TIA!
>> > I had to blacklist the usblp module for CUPS to work with my printer. FWIW. :)
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>> I think I read something about this a while back.  Maybe google can turn
>> up a reason why since my memory is like a screen door, only catches some
>> stuff but lets everything else flow right through.  ;-)
>>
>> Since I have not had any trouble with my printer, I bet it was on this
>> mailing list or KDE's mailing list.  Those are the only two I subscribe
>> to.
>>
>> Dale
>>
>> :-)  :-)
>>
>
> This broke my printing as well - I went the route of taking the module
> out of the kernel config.  But what I didnt resolve to my satisfaction,
> is what is the best solution? - there are two that work but which
> *should* we use?

I believe allowing CUPS to handle it directly is the preferred
solution. Though that's not ideal if you're looking to, e.g. dump a
text file directly to /dev/lp0, or write syslog to a printer.

So, really, it depends on your use case. I expect the majority of
people would find they want CUPS to handle it.

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