Bug#339584: hpoj: ptal-mlcd reports Access denied to parallel port!

2006-02-13 Thread Martin Pitt
Hi Mark! Mark Purcell [2006-02-10 22:20 +1100]: Martin, Julian, Has ubuntu been able to make any headway on this. I am about at the point with debian/hpoj to revert hpoj to run as root, allowing access to the parallel port. Oops, sorry for not having answered to this. This sounds like a

Bug#339584: hpoj: ptal-mlcd reports Access denied to parallel port!

2006-02-13 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 09:06:57AM +0100, Martin Pitt wrote: Hi Mark! Mark Purcell [2006-02-10 22:20 +1100]: Martin, Julian, Has ubuntu been able to make any headway on this. I am about at the point with debian/hpoj to revert hpoj to run as root, allowing access to the parallel

Bug#339584: hpoj: ptal-mlcd reports Access denied to parallel port!

2006-02-10 Thread Mark Purcell
Martin, Julian, Has ubuntu been able to make any headway on this. I am about at the point with debian/hpoj to revert hpoj to run as root, allowing access to the parallel port. Thanks, Mark On Friday 06 January 2006 06:16, Julian Gilbey wrote: Hi Martin! Could you have a look at this bug.

Bug#339584: hpoj: ptal-mlcd reports Access denied to parallel port!

2006-02-10 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 10:20:36PM +1100, Mark Purcell wrote: Martin, Julian, Has ubuntu been able to make any headway on this. I am about at the point with debian/hpoj to revert hpoj to run as root, allowing access to the parallel port. We no longer support hpoj, and use hplip in its

Bug#339584: hpoj: ptal-mlcd reports Access denied to parallel port!

2006-02-10 Thread Mike Williams
Matt Zimmerman wrote: We no longer support hpoj, and use hplip in its place. For what it's worth, I've also dropped hpoj in favour of hplip, which seems to be working nicely. I'd be happy for you to close this bug report. -- cheers, MikeW http://www.dogbiscuit.org/mdub/ -- To

Bug#339584: hpoj: ptal-mlcd reports 'Access denied to parallel port!'

2006-01-06 Thread Mark Purcell
Could you have a look at this bug. How can the Ubuntu patch work at all given the point below? ptal-mlcd needs access to the IO ports, doesn't it? Isn't it necessary for the daemon to start as root to get the ports it needs and then to drop privileges? What I think is happening is that the

Bug#339584: hpoj: ptal-mlcd reports Access denied to parallel port!

2006-01-05 Thread Julian Gilbey
Hi Martin! Could you have a look at this bug. How can the Ubuntu patch work at all given the point below? ptal-mlcd needs access to the IO ports, doesn't it? Isn't it necessary for the daemon to start as root to get the ports it needs and then to drop privileges? Julian On Wed, Jan 04,

Bug#339584: hpoj: ptal-mlcd reports Access denied to parallel port!

2006-01-03 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 09:25:13PM +1100, Mike Williams wrote: Package: hpoj Version: 0.91-9 Severity: important I can no longer print to my parallel-port OfficeJet K80 printer. When probing using ptal-init setup, it reports *** ptal-mlcd failed to start! Check syslog file for

Bug#339584: hpoj: ptal-mlcd reports Access denied to parallel port!

2005-11-17 Thread Mike Williams
Package: hpoj Version: 0.91-9 Severity: important I can no longer print to my parallel-port OfficeJet K80 printer. When probing using ptal-init setup, it reports *** ptal-mlcd failed to start! Check syslog file for error messages. /var/log/lpr.log contains: Nov 17 21:21:33 kumara