Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Peter Ruskin <peter.ruskin@×××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] USB printer and new cups
Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 22:39:42
Message-Id: 201005152338.03353.peter.ruskin@dsl.pipex.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] USB printer and new cups by Alex Schuster
1 On Saturday 15 May 2010 22:56:22 Alex Schuster wrote:
2 > Hi there!
3 >
4 > I want to setup an USB printer. So I http://localhost:631/, and
5 > notice that the interface has changed. And when I try to add a
6 > printer, the only options for a local printer are SCSI-printer
7 > and HAL printing backend. And on the next screen, I have to enter
8 > the device URI by hand. How should I know what to enter there?
9 > And wasn't there an autodetect feature? Is the new CUPS (1.4.3)
10 > generally behaving like this lately, or is something wrong with
11 > my setup?
12 >
13 > The usb use flag is set. lsusb shows the printer as "Bus 001
14 > Device 003: ID 04a9:10a5 Canon, Inc. iP5200".
15 >
16 > What is a HAL printing backend? Do I have to add some crazy fdi
17 > stuff for the printer? CUPS does not even have a hal use flag.
18 > Dale, help!
19 >
20 > Wonko
21
22 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=295591
23
24 --
25 Peter
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