Christian Zachariasen wrote:
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 4:53 AM, David Reedy Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
On Tuesday 22 April 2008 10:40:25 am Roland Smith wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 10:08:37AM -0500, David Reedy Jr wrote:
> > > IICR, the print device should belong to the cups group. At
least,
> > > that's my working setup.
> > >
> > > I have the following in /etc/devfs.conf:
> > >
> > > # Give cups printer access
> > > own lpt0 root:cups
> > > perm lpt0 0660
> >
> > Thanks for the info. This didn't actually fix the problem, but I
> > know it was needed since I read somewhere that everything that
> > cupsd spawns runs as cups.
> >
> > What I ended up doing was resetting my cupsd.conf to default and
> > redid my settings. I must have had a typo in there somewhere
before
> > because as soon as I restarted cupsd after making the changes, the
> > parallel and usb ports suddenly became available as devices
for the
> > printer.
>
> It happens. :-)
>
> > I had previously selected lpd and then manually specified the uri
> > as parallel:/dev/lpt0.
> >
> > The laser on the parallel port is now working fine.
>
> Good.
>
> > I also went ahead
> > and setup my deskjet on usb:/dev/ulpt0. Print test pages get
marked
> > as completed but nothing actually comes out of the printer. Still
> > trying to figure that one out.
>
> Have a look at the cups logfiles in /var/log/cups. They should give
> you some pointers. You'll probably need to set the device
permissions
> for ulpt in devfs.rules, not devfs.conf!
>
I got the rules setup in devfs.rules, no problem. When I turn on the
printer it's detected...
ulpt0: <HP Deskjet 3840, class 0/0, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 2> on uhub0
ulpt0: using bi-directional mode
and things get set right permission-wise...
crw-rw---- 1 root cups 0, 88 Apr 22 21:20 /dev/ulpt0
according to /var/log/cups/error_log it prints...
I [22/Apr/2008:21:20:03 -0500]
Started "/usr/local/libexec/cups/cgi-bin/printers.cgi" (pid=756)
I [22/Apr/2008:21:20:03 -0500] [Job 47] Adding start banner page
"none".
I [22/Apr/2008:21:20:03 -0500] [Job 47] Adding job file of type
application/postscript.
I [22/Apr/2008:21:20:03 -0500] [Job 47] Adding end banner page "none".
I [22/Apr/2008:21:20:03 -0500] [Job 47] Queued on "inkjet" by "root".
I [22/Apr/2008:21:20:03 -0500] [Job 47] Started
filter /usr/local/libexec/cups/filter/pstops (PID 757)
I [22/Apr/2008:21:20:03 -0500] [Job 47] Started
filter /usr/local/libexec/cups/filter/pstoraster (PID 758)
I [22/Apr/2008:21:20:03 -0500] [Job 47] Started
filter /usr/local/libexec/cups/filter/rastertohp (PID 759)
I [22/Apr/2008:21:20:03 -0500] [Job 47] Started
backend /usr/local/libexec/cups/backend/usb (PID 760)
I [22/Apr/2008:21:20:06 -0500]
Started "/usr/local/libexec/cups/cgi-bin/printers.cgi" (pid=761)
I [22/Apr/2008:21:20:06 -0500] [Job 47] Completed successfully.
I [22/Apr/2008:21:20:17 -0500]
Started "/usr/local/libexec/cups/cgi-bin/printers.cgi" (pid=762)
but the job disappears into some sort of black hole. Nothing prints.
Printer just sits there peacefully doing nothing.
>From printers.conf for this printer...
<Printer inkjet>
Info HP DeskJet 3845
Location Bottom
DeviceURI usb:/dev/ulpt0
State Idle
StateTime 1208917161
Accepting Yes
Shared Yes
JobSheets none none
QuotaPeriod 0
PageLimit 0
KLimit 0
AllowUser root
AllowUser davidrjr
OpPolicy default
ErrorPolicy stop-printer
</Printer>
If anybody has additional insight, I'd sure appreciate it.
Dave
> Roland
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IIRC, you should be able to actually write
echo "something" >> /dev/ulpt0
and it should print? Might be useful for testing and stuff.
Test goes to the same black hole. I think I've found the problem...
uhci0: <Intel 82801BA/BAM (ICH2) USB controller USB-A> port
0xb400-0xb41f irq 3 at device 31.2 on pci0
Perhaps putting a USB 2.0 controller in this old machine might make a
difference. :)
Anyway, after a quick bit of googling around for your problem (I've
had CUPS problems many times in the past myself and I know how hard it
can be) I found this:
Here is a workaround:
In printers.conf () you will probably find a line like this:
DeviceURI usb:/dev/ulpt0
change usb: to file:, so that it looks something like this:
DeviceURI file:/dev/ulpt0
Then restart cups. Cups will not read any status information from the
printer, but at least it can print. Be warned about unknown side effects. :)
Jan-Espen Pettersen
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Christian Zachariasen
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