On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 02:16:56AM +0200, Felix C. Stegerman wrote: > * Kenward Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-11 18:34]: > > On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 11:42:19PM +0200, Felix C. Stegerman wrote: ...
> > > Have you tried purging all CUPS packages and reconfiguring all > > > printers? That worked for me. > > > > Yes and yes. No change. Includes reboots in between. What I don't > > know is whether there is another package outside of the "regular" > > cupsys ones which may be leaving traces of something about, messing up > > the purge. Basically, I hit all the cups\* listed as installed. > > > > It is also weird that CUPS identifies my usb printer (the Epson) with > > /dev/lp0, which is a parallel port. > > That is rather odd indeed. > > > I'm wondering whether there is some problem with udev or the like. > > There is no /dev/usb directory, unlike the information below suggests. > > Is this because of the existence of the /udev/.static directory??? > > > > Again, my system sees the printers properly (via hwinfo) > > Something I just thought of: you could install cups-pdf and see > whether you can print to PDF files. That way you'd be able to find > out if CUPS works at all. This set up well and works. Thanks for the suggestion, Felix--I can at least boot into Winblows now to print files. (I had had this installed earlier, as I use it to print pdf's for my classes. Now, it's for internal use! ;-) So... ??? I'll update my bug report. Kenward -- In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be _teachers_ and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have. - Lee Iacocca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
