Dave Jones wrote: > Kevin O'Gorman wrote on 05/02/08 04:13: > > >> > hp-setup stubbornly refuses to acknowledge /dev/lp0 >> >> > I got it to work, but don't really know what was wrong. The drive >> > that held my root directory and all configs had failed. Friday, i >> > got it back from the DiskSavers, along with the data on a new USB >> > external drive. Copying over the cups config files just magically >> > made the printer work locally. >> > > >> > I'm still struggling with a host of issues, so I'm going to ignore >> > the fact that I have no idea what keeps my CUPS working. >> > > >> Please check that you have USE=parport enabled for hplip >> > > >> Thanks for the help. I did find that hplip was compiled without the >> parport flag. Since local printing on the parallel port is now working >> without it, I wonder what it does? >> > > Dale beat me to pointing out that you may have missed the parport USE > flag, most likely the cause of the problem. > > I guess that you've restored your old /etc/hp/hplip.conf, which was > probably enough to enable the cups print queue once you restored your > /etc/cups directory. > > The hp-setup in the new hplip probably needs the parport USE flag to > determine whether to support parallel port probes. Without the parport > USE flag, I guess that it assumes that you're not interested in them. > > >> Thanks, and I'll get that info when I have things a bit more stable. >> > > Good luck, hope you get your system stabilised soon. > > Cheers, Dave >
Dale has added the USE flag parport to his too. Just in case I ever need it. Mine is not grayed out now either. That should work. Ain't having all the options neat? Even if you have to recompile things a lot. ;-) Dale :-) :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
