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