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On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 8:46 AM, Nilesh Govindrajan |
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<contact@××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 5:14 AM, Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Alan Mackenzie <acm@×××.de> wrote: |
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>>> Evening, Experts! |
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>>> |
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>>> My printer isn't printing. |
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>>> |
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>>> More precisely, when in CUPS 1.5.2 (localhost:631), CUPS fails to find |
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>>> the printer. When I click on "Find New Printers" it comes back with |
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>>> "Available Printers - No Printers Found.". |
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>>> |
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>>> My system has been like this since I converted back from mdev to udev. |
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>>> Though I have just built Linux 3.3.8 in the hope that a new kernel build |
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>>> would help. ;-(. |
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>>> |
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>>> Help would be most appreciated. |
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>> |
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>> What kind of printer? How is it connected to the computer? |
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>> |
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>> What USE flags do you have enabled for the CUPS build? If you |
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>> re-emerge CUPS, it will spit some warnings at you if it detects |
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>> problems with your kernel configuration. |
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>> |
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>> -- |
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>> :wq |
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>> |
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> |
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> Personally I prefer enabling USB printer support in kernel instead of |
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> cups (both of them are mutually exclusive!). Because, cupsd sometimes |
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> chokes when you shut off and on the printer many times. Once that |
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> happened I switched to kernel support and never faced the problem |
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> again. |
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If you have HP printer, install hplip package. Read cups logs in |
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/var/log/cups or whatever. |
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