[gentoo-user] cups hplib - how to divorce
Hi, I think cups-1.4.6 and my HP printer via USB can't live in harmony. Often, it gets stuck. Then it tries to use feed 1 (manual feed) although I have configured cups to use feed 2. Can I just remove hlip from my system, delete and add my printer again in cups. Has anybody made similar experience? Many thanks for a hint, Helmut.
Re: [gentoo-user] cups hplib - how to divorce
2011/2/9 Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de: Hi, I think cups-1.4.6 and my HP printer via USB can't live in harmony. Often, it gets stuck. Then it tries to use feed 1 (manual feed) although I have configured cups to use feed 2. Can I just remove hlip from my system, delete and add my printer again in cups. Has anybody made similar experience? Does it work with stable cups? Do you use in kernel USB printer support or libusb? -- Daniel Pielmeier
Re: [gentoo-user] cups hplib - how to divorce
On 02/09/2011 12:58:07 PM, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: 2011/2/9 Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de: Hi, I think cups-1.4.6 and my HP printer via USB can't live in harmony. Often, it gets stuck. Then it tries to use feed 1 (manual feed) although I have configured cups to use feed 2. Can I just remove hlip from my system, delete and add my printer again in cups. Has anybody made similar experience? Does it work with stable cups? Do you use in kernel USB printer support or libusb? AFAIR it worked just fine with CUPS-1.3.x I do have CONFIG_USB_PRINTER=y in my kernel configuration. Thanks, Daniel, Helmut.
Re: [gentoo-user] cups hplib - how to divorce
2011/2/9 Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de: AFAIR it worked just fine with CUPS-1.3.x Then why don't you use stable cups? I do have CONFIG_USB_PRINTER=y in my kernel configuration. New cups 1.4 can make use of the libusb package via the usb use flag. Without it uses the kernel USB support CONFIG_USB_PRINTER. If you want to use cups-1.4, I recommend to compile kernel USB support as module CONFIG_USB_PRINTER=m instead of built-in. This way you can test both methods without conflicts. Compile cups-1.4 with usb use flag and blacklist the usblp module to test if it works with libusb. To test if it works with the kernel module remove the blacklist entry and compile cups without usb use flag. Btw: cups-1.4 is not stable because of issues with usb support ([1] see also the depending bugs), so if both methods do not work for you I recommend using cups-1.3 for the time being. [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=333781 PS: You can only get rid of hplip if your printer is directly supported by cups and cups only supports a few HP printer. So in general you are better of with hplip. -- Daniel Pielmeier
