On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 8:46 AM, Nilesh Govindrajan <cont...@nileshgr.com> wrote: > 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.
If you have HP printer, install hplip package. Read cups logs in /var/log/cups or whatever.
