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Dave Jones wrote: |
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> Kevin O'Gorman wrote on 05/02/08 04:13: |
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>> > hp-setup stubbornly refuses to acknowledge /dev/lp0 |
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>> > I got it to work, but don't really know what was wrong. The drive |
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>> > that held my root directory and all configs had failed. Friday, i |
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>> > got it back from the DiskSavers, along with the data on a new USB |
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>> > external drive. Copying over the cups config files just magically |
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>> > made the printer work locally. |
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>> > I'm still struggling with a host of issues, so I'm going to ignore |
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>> > the fact that I have no idea what keeps my CUPS working. |
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>> Please check that you have USE=parport enabled for hplip |
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>> Thanks for the help. I did find that hplip was compiled without the |
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>> parport flag. Since local printing on the parallel port is now working |
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>> without it, I wonder what it does? |
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> Dale beat me to pointing out that you may have missed the parport USE |
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> flag, most likely the cause of the problem. |
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> I guess that you've restored your old /etc/hp/hplip.conf, which was |
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> probably enough to enable the cups print queue once you restored your |
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> /etc/cups directory. |
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> The hp-setup in the new hplip probably needs the parport USE flag to |
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> determine whether to support parallel port probes. Without the parport |
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> USE flag, I guess that it assumes that you're not interested in them. |
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>> Thanks, and I'll get that info when I have things a bit more stable. |
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> Good luck, hope you get your system stabilised soon. |
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> Cheers, Dave |
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Dale has added the USE flag parport to his too. Just in case I ever |
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need it. Mine is not grayed out now either. That should work. |
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Ain't having all the options neat? Even if you have to recompile things |
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a lot. ;-) |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) :-) |
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