[Bug 25966] Re: NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed

2008-02-13 Thread Till Kamppeter
** Summary changed: - Printer drivers for Brother needed + NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed ** Description changed: I'd like to see the GPLed printer-drivers from brother included in Ubuntu. Except for the changed location of the cups-initscript (/etc/init.d/cupsys instead o

[Bug 25966] Re: NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed

2008-02-13 Thread Saïvann Carignan
The packages are nearly finished, links and instructions will come soon. We need multiple testers for multiples Brother printers ready to take the adventure ;) -- NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/25966 You received this bug notification because you a

[Bug 25966] Re: NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed

2008-02-14 Thread Till Kamppeter
I have uploaded the packages now. For testing you can already get them here: http://upload.leservicetechnique.com/brother/ ** Changed in: ubuntu Status: In Progress => Fix Committed -- NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/25966 You received thi

[Bug 25966] Re: NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed

2008-02-14 Thread Saïvann Carignan
To know which package you should install, you can look here : https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BrotherDriverPackaging There is 5 categories of printer drivers. It is possible that some of you will have a printer that is not a part of the package, like the Markus Fax-1940CN which I didn't find anywhere in

[Bug 25966] Re: NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed

2008-02-14 Thread FriedChicken
Sorry, I've forgotten the attachment in my last posting ... ** Attachment added: "brother-cups-wrapper-bh7_1.0.0-10-0ubuntu1_i386.deb errors.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/11965147/brother-cups-wrapper-bh7_1.0.0-10-0ubuntu1_i386.deb%20errors.txt -- NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Broth

[Bug 25966] Re: NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed

2008-02-14 Thread FriedChicken
- Dependency for "csh" is missing (at least for the bh7-packages). - brother-cupswrapper-bh7 gives errors on installation (--> attachment) - The bh7-driver doesn't work for printers using the MFC-210C driver as my DCP-120C does. This also affects DCP-115C, DCP-315CN, DCP-340CW, MFC-215C, MFC-42

[Bug 25966] Re: NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed

2008-02-14 Thread Saïvann Carignan
FriedChicken : Thanks a lot for your testing. Unfortunately, your printer and the printer of Markus are from the PC-FAX driver category which we did not package. I'm asking Martin Pitt and Till if we can still package them for Hardy but we must consider that these drivers will be just available thr

[Bug 25966] Re: NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed

2008-02-14 Thread FriedChicken
OK, thank you very much for your great work. -- NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/25966 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.co

[Bug 25966] Re: NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed

2008-02-16 Thread FriedChicken
If the info given in the wiki https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BrotherDriverPackaging is right, ubuntu will install the brother drivers brother-lpr-drivers-laser and brother-cups- wrapper-laser. So this shouldn't be a problem anymore in future. -- NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed https://bu

[Bug 25966] Re: NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed

2008-02-16 Thread ubuntu4fun
I have the Brother HL 2030. It's one of the most popular laser printers made by Brother. Works great with the drivers from their website: http://solutions.brother.com/linux/sol/printer/linux/cups_drivers.html#de I noticed that on Gusty the HL2030 model is recognized when plugged into USB port

[Bug 25966] Re: NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed

2008-02-16 Thread Saïvann Carignan
For the "automatic" installation of the good package, there's still some work to do. We're actually trying to get the packages working correctly and uploaded to ubuntu, this is the first step. Latest debian packages can be found here : http://upload.leservicetechnique.com/brother You just have to

[Bug 25966] Re: NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed

2008-02-16 Thread ubuntu4fun
OK, guys, let me be the first to test the new packages :-) As I've written above, I made my Brother HL2030 work perfectly using cupswrapperHL2030-2.0.1-2.i386.deb from the Brother website. I started testing Your packages with completely removing cupswrapperHL2030-2.0.1-2.i386.deb. Then I downloa

[Bug 25966] Re: NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed

2008-02-16 Thread Przemysław Kulczycki
These packages will work only on Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy (alpha), not on 7.10 Gutsy (stable) -- NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/25966 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bug

[Bug 25966] Re: NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed

2008-02-16 Thread Saïvann Carignan
Exactly, This is due to the libc6 library dependency which is automatically added in the hardy version. These packages won't appear in Gutsy, Hardy will be the first release to have them so if you can install Hardy on one computer ( or a partition of your computer ) you will be able to test these.

[Bug 25966] Re: NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed

2008-02-17 Thread ubuntu4fun
Thank you for preparing the packages for Gusty. I downloaded and installed 4 of them as follows: 1) brother-lpr-drivers-common_1.0.0-1-0ubuntu1_i386 2) brother-cups-wrapper-common_1.0.0-10-0ubuntu1_i386 3) brother-lpr-drivers-laser_2.0.1-1-0ubuntu1_i386 4) brother-cups-wrapper-laser_2.0.1-2-0u

[Bug 25966] Re: NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed

2008-02-17 Thread Przemysław Kulczycki
I've installed the gutsy drivers but printing with my network printer (MFC-440CN) doesn't work. -- NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/25966 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- u

[Bug 25966] Re: NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed

2008-02-17 Thread Przemysław Kulczycki
BTW: are you going to push these packages to Debian? -- NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/25966 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.u

[Bug 25966] Re: NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed

2008-02-17 Thread FriedChicken
Did you read "Network printer configuration" at wiki.ubuntu.com/BrotherDriverPackaging ? -- NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/25966 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-b

[Bug 25966] Re: NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed

2008-02-17 Thread Przemysław Kulczycki
I've wrote that section! :> -- NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/25966 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.u

[Bug 25966] Re: NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed

2008-02-17 Thread FriedChicken
*lol* Sorry, I didn't know that you are "AzraelNightwalker". I only saw that this part was new and that it could be that you haven't read it yet ;) -- NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/25966 You received this bug notification because you are a member

[Bug 25966] Re: NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed

2008-02-17 Thread Saïvann Carignan
ubuntu4fun : Thanks for your testing, I'm very glad to see that our work gives results. Przemysław Kulczycki : Thanks for your testing, In order to help finding why it doesn't work with your printer, can you try to make your printer working by connecting it with a USB cable and changing the port u

[Bug 25966] Re: NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed

2008-02-17 Thread ubuntu4fun
I've installed latest daily build of Hardy and updated the system. My first impressions: Brother HL 2030 works without installing any drivers on generic Brother HL 2060 Foomatic/hl 1250 en (recommended) driver. It works even better than in Gusty. I must admit that I've experienced one Evince 2

[Bug 25966] Re: NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed

2008-02-17 Thread FriedChicken
Isn't the Foomatic driver the same as the one from Brother? Till Kamppeter wrote: "The PPD files for PostScript (BR-Script) printers are under GPL and therefore they can be redistributed. They are also available in the upstream foomatic-db package." Or has the Foomatic driver been modified? Woul

[Bug 25966] Re: NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed

2008-02-17 Thread ubuntu4fun
Packages for Hardy have been successfully tested. I installed 3 of the packages mentioned above. Before installing the cupswrapperHL2030-2.0.1-2.i386.deb package the csh_20070713-1_i386.deb had to be downloaded due to dependencies. After installing all of the packages for Hardy I was able to prin

[Bug 25966] Re: NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed

2008-02-17 Thread Saïvann Carignan
ubuntu4fun : In your case, this is normal that cupsys won't setup the printer with our PPD file since there is a better foomatic driver which works with your printer. You have to change the driver yourself. Remember that our packages are not in Hardy yet so they are not automatically installed/conf

[Bug 25966] Re: NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed

2008-02-17 Thread ubuntu4fun
One more thing, should I uninstall some packages before installing the ones prepared for Hardy? -- NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/25966 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- u

[Bug 25966] Re: NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed

2008-02-17 Thread ubuntu4fun
I haven't uninstalled anything, just chose the PPD file from: usr/share/ppd/Brother/HL2030.ppd. I chose option: "Try to copy the settings from the old PPD" during configuration, but the printer configuration crashed. (Choosing the first option caused crashing, too.) Unfortunately, I wasn't able

[Bug 25966] Re: NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed

2008-02-17 Thread Saïvann Carignan
ubuntu4fun : That's bad, I was not able to reproduce that bug. If you can reproduce it with any other PPD files than the one we provided, can you open a bug for this in launchpad (if you don't find this bug already reported)? Don't hesitate to give further informations if you finally succeed in set

[Bug 25966] Re: NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed

2008-02-18 Thread Till Kamppeter
ubuntu4fun, perhaps you have hit a bug in system-config-printer (the standard printer setup tool under Ubuntu). For testing the new Brother driver packages use the CUPS web interface to sset up your print queue. You find it with any browser under http://localhost:631/. -- NEW PACKAGE: Printer dri

[Bug 25966] Re: NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed

2008-02-18 Thread Till Kamppeter
FriedChicken, the free software PPDs which Brother has uploaded directly to OpenPrinting (and therefore they are in foomatic-db) are only for PostScript printers, the non-free driver packages are for non-PostScript printers. -- NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed https://bugs.launchpa

[Bug 25966] Re: NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed

2008-02-18 Thread ubuntu4fun
Update: " The printing jobs are marked as completed but not a single page is printed." I checked once again and it turned out that only printing test page from CUPS web interface was marked as completed. I had tried to print some documents from OpenOffice and Evince and these printing jobs are mi

[Bug 25966] Re: NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed

2008-02-18 Thread ubuntu4fun
Till, I've used CUPS web interface and managed to successfully modify the settings of my printer. Thanks for the tip. I set up it to use Brother HL2030 PPD from usr/share/ppd/Brother/HL2030.ppd as Saivann asked. Definitely, it works better than standard printer setup system in Ubuntu, but I'm n

[Bug 25966] Re: NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed

2008-02-18 Thread Saïvann Carignan
ubuntu4fun : Thanks a lot for your testing. I found that I recently introduced bad sed scripts which caused non-intentional modifications of the cups filters, I fixed this in the laser package. Can you uninstall your actual brother-cups-wrapper-laser package and try with the one that you can find h

[Bug 25966] Re: NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed

2008-02-19 Thread Saïvann Carignan
ubuntu4fun : I also fixed a problem with file permissions a few minutes ago. Are you wiling to uninstall / download / install again the new packages? If yes, I really appreciate your feedback. -- NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/25966 You received th

[Bug 25966] Re: NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed

2008-02-19 Thread Saïvann Carignan
To anyone who's wiling to test upcoming brother packages, can you : 1. Look which Cups Wrapper and LPR Drivers packages you need for your printer at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BrotherDriverPackaging 2. Download these packages from here (there is a gutsy folder for people who want to download packag

[Bug 25966] Re: NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed

2008-02-19 Thread ubuntu4fun
I reinstalled the package and nothing has changed :-( -- NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/25966 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.

[Bug 25966] Re: NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed

2008-02-19 Thread ubuntu4fun
Saivann, I completely uninstalled all the Brother packages installed before. It was only 3 packages for Hardy. Then I downloaded and installed 4 of the new packages: 1) brother-lpr-drivers-common_1.0.0-1-0ubuntu1_i386; 2) brother-cups-wrapper-common_1.0.0-10-0ubuntu1_i386; 3) brother-lpr-driver

[Bug 25966] Re: NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed

2008-02-19 Thread ubuntu4fun
I'm very sorry, but nothing has changed. Maybe is because of some Hardy bugs? I really appreciate Your work so I'll install a stable Xubuntu 7.10 version and test Your drivers once again. Are the packages You've prepared compatible with Debian? Maybe You should post an announcement on Debian fo

[Bug 25966] Re: NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed

2008-02-19 Thread Saïvann Carignan
Mmh.. I looked very deep and compared each aspects of the packages and found little differences between the permissions of the files in our packages and the files in the packages of Brother. Can you type these 3 commands on a terminal and tells if it fixes the printing issue? sudo chmod a+x /usr/l

[Bug 25966] Re: NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed

2008-02-19 Thread Saïvann Carignan
Thanks for the idea, I did it today. I really don't know what's not working for you on Hardy.. I would really need to have one brother printer here too.. I will wait for more feedback and let my head thinking on this. Thanks a lot. -- NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed https://bugs.l

[Bug 25966] Re: NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed

2008-03-02 Thread Leung, Kai-Cheung
Once the entire brother system is completed and verified to be working properly, are there any ways to move them to "restricted" before the release of Hardy? In this way it can be included in default installation and possibly mitigate a lot of headaches -- NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brothe

[Bug 25966] Re: NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed

2008-03-03 Thread Martijn Vermaat
Today I tried the latest packages using the Hardy alpha-5 live CD, but they didn't work. The USB laser printer HL-1430 works fine using the foomatic driver (recommended 1250), but nothing is printed using the HL-1430 for CUPS driver from the new packages (no error is shown). This experience seems

[Bug 25966] Re: NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed

2008-03-06 Thread Saïvann Carignan
To everybody who wish to help on this bug again : New improved packages are now available for testing at http://upload.leservicetechnique.com/brother/ . These packages fixes major mistakes in brother-cups-wrapper and the problem that Wade Menard found in LPR packages. Also, these packages now use /

[Bug 25966] Re: NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed

2008-03-06 Thread A. Meschede
hey... i found the debs at http://upload.leservicetechnique.com/brother/. I installed "brother-lpr-drivers-laser_2.0.1-1-0ubuntu1_i386.deb" and "brother-cups-wrapper-laser_2.0.1-2-0ubuntu2_i386.deb". Installation was ok... after that i added a new printer on "usb://Brother/MFC-7420". Everything

[Bug 25966] Re: NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed

2008-03-06 Thread A. Meschede
Hello. Today I tried to install my brother MFC-7420 on Hardy alpha-5. Installing the appropiate cupswrapper driver "brother-cups-wrapper- laser" fails because it depends on the "brother-lpr-drivers-laser", which is missing in the repositories. is there a chance to include that? Installing the lp

[Bug 25966] Re: NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed

2008-03-16 Thread Martijn Vermaat
Latest packages change nothing with respect to the HL-1430 printer (in laser1). See my previous comment: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/25966/comments/29 -- NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/25966 You received this bug notification because yo

[Bug 25966] Re: NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed

2008-03-16 Thread Saïvann Carignan
Martijn Vermaat : Thanks for your comment, did you try the one in my PPA? deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/saivann/ubuntu hardy main -- NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/25966 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, whi

[Bug 25966] Re: NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed

2008-03-16 Thread brettalton
Does 'deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/saivann/ubuntu gutsy main' not exist? I'm hoping to continue testing those Gutsy drivers! Thank you for your time. -- NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/25966 You received this bug notification because you are a memb

[Bug 25966] Re: NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed

2008-03-16 Thread Martijn Vermaat
Saïvann Carignan: Yes, I used alpha 5 again with the packages from your PPA. -- NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/25966 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing

[Bug 25966] Re: NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed

2008-03-16 Thread FriedChicken
Yesterday I've updated the drivers with the packages from PPA and then tried to get a Brother FAX-1940CN working (*-extra-Packages). As my DCP- 120C this was no problem and it seems as if it's safe use them both on one system. Thank you, good work! -- NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother nee

[Bug 25966] Re: NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed

2008-03-16 Thread FriedChicken
Supplement: I've connected the FAX-1940CN via USB. As already said this was no problem. I have also tried it via ethernet but a) didn't use a crossover altough I connected the laptop and the printer directly b) the NetworkManager didn't activate the ethternet device. This could be because of a)

[Bug 25966] Re: NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed

2008-03-16 Thread FriedChicken
Correction: ... Maybe I could arrange it some time to connect the *printer* with a switch or a router. -- NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/25966 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber

[Bug 25966] Re: NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed

2008-03-17 Thread Saïvann Carignan
brettalton : Sorry, I won't have the ressources and time to build these drivers for Gutsy, at least in the next week and since Hardy will soon be a beta, I will concentrate on Hardy, but thank you for your testing. According to your comment and Martijn Vermaat comment, I believe that there is still

[Bug 25966] Re: NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed

2008-03-17 Thread Sebastian Keller
In brother-lpr-drivers-bh7_1.0.0-9-0ubuntu3~ppa1_i386 the files in /usr/Brother/Printer/*/inf/brio* link to /usr/Brother/Printer/inf/brio... while the files in brother-lpr-drivers- common_1.0.0-2-0ubuntu1_i386 the files are called brio06... -- NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed https

[Bug 25966] Re: NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed

2008-03-17 Thread Saïvann Carignan
Sebastian Keller : Thanks for finding that mistake. I will fix this problem. -- NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/25966 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing

[Bug 25966] Re: NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed

2008-03-18 Thread Sebastian Keller
In brother-lpr-drivers-bh7_1.0.0-10-0ubuntu1 the files in /usr/Brother/Printer/*/lpd/*filter* are missing +x. -- NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/25966 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subs

[Bug 25966] Re: NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed

2008-03-18 Thread Sebastian Keller
Another problem: /usr/Brother/Printer/dcp130c/lpd/psconvertij2 is different from the one shipped in the according package from Brother, which results in the following problem: Brother: PAPER_TYPE=`sed -n '/PaperType/p' $RC_FILE` PAPER_TYPE=`echo $PAPER_TYPE | sed -e 's/ //g' -e 's/PaperType=//'`

[Bug 25966] Re: NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed

2008-03-18 Thread Saïvann Carignan
Thank you very much for finding these issues. Since your recent comments, I also found several problems like the one you described and I'm currently fixing everything I see. I will probably upload fixed packages to my PPA in the next day. -- NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed https:/

[Bug 25966] Re: NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed

2008-03-20 Thread Steve Langasek
** Changed in: Ubuntu Hardy Target: ubuntu-8.04-beta => ubuntu-8.04 -- NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/25966 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing li

[Bug 25966] Re: NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed

2008-03-20 Thread Dana_r
I'm on Hardy A6 and I was unable to get my Brother HL-2040 to print test pages. I'm using: brother-lpr-drivers-common 1.0.0-2-0ubuntu1 brother-lpr-drivers-laser 2.0.1-2-0ubuntu3 brother-r-lpr-drivers-laser 2.0.1-2-0ubuntu1 I performed the setup in the cups admin page using the packaged PPD file.

[Bug 25966] Re: NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed

2008-03-21 Thread mikko sorri
Same problem. I can't print anything. My DCP7010 ppd-file is in /usr/share/ppd instead of /opt/share/ppd. In Dana_r's error log driver tries also to find it from /usr/share/cups/model. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo cat /var/log/cups/error_log E [21/Mar/2008:09:31:25 +0200] Pause-Printer: Unauthorized

[Bug 25966] Re: NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed

2008-03-21 Thread Saïvann Carignan
Very interesting. Can you try the latest packages that I uploaded to my PPA archive yesterday? deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/saivann/ubuntu hardy main These packages fix various issues, including the wrong permissions which I suspect to be the cause of the non-working laser and laser1 package. May

[Bug 25966] Re: NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed

2008-03-21 Thread Dana_r
Saïvann, that is closer as the test page now prints, however the placement is off by about 2cm from the top of the page. I'm also still getting the following messages in my cups log: E [21/Mar/2008:12:44:44 -0400] [cups-driverd] Unable to open PPD directory "/usr/share/cups/model": No such file

[Bug 25966] Re: NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed

2008-03-21 Thread Till Kamppeter
Missing /opt/share and /usr/share/cups/model are no problem. These are only alternative places to search for PPDs for CUPS. They are not needed for printing and they are also not needed by the Brother drivers. -- NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2596

[Bug 25966] Re: NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed

2008-03-21 Thread Till Kamppeter
** Tags added: metabug -- NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/25966 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu

[Bug 25966] Re: NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed

2008-03-22 Thread Till Kamppeter
Please anyone here test the newest packages from Saïvann. I have uploaded them to multiverse. Alternatively, you can also download them from Saïvann's PPA. Please report here all problems which you still have and also report if you are able to print out-of-the-box now, especially also on 64-bit sy

[Bug 25966] Re: NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed

2008-03-22 Thread Till Kamppeter
There is a positive report in bug 204713 now. emanuel indermühle is reporting success with the brother-lpr-drivers-laser1 and the corresponding CUPS wrapper. -- NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/25966 You received this bug notification because you are

[Bug 25966] Re: NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed

2008-03-22 Thread Sebastian Keller
My DCP 130C works again now, good job! It got autodetected after i installed the packages and plugged it in. -- NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/25966 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subsc

[Bug 25966] Re: NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed

2008-03-22 Thread brettalton
I upgrade to Hardy Beta and switched the driver for MFC-8440 from PS to CUPS but the printer still doesn't work. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo tail -30 /var/log/cups/error_log E [22/Mar/2008:10:36:17 -0400] CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer: Unauthorized E [22/Mar/2008:22:00:27 -0400] cupsdAuthorize: Local auth

[Bug 25966] Re: NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed

2008-03-23 Thread Lebowski
MFC 5440CN still works, but I cannot change the size from Letter to A4. Well you can change it but it does not have any effect on the outcome of the paper. Also I noticed that when I installed the brother-lpr-drivers-extra- Package it pulled some dependencies but I had to install brother-cups- wr

[Bug 25966] Re: NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed

2008-03-23 Thread brettalton
I noticed that an upgrade of the brother-cups-wrapper-* drivers were pushed to Hardy, so I installed them, changed my driver from PS to CUPS and my printing is now working =) However, the pages seems to be 2.5cm at the top and 0.2cm at the bottom. The left and right margins are about 0.7cm. This

[Bug 25966] Re: NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed

2008-03-24 Thread Saïvann Carignan
Thank you all for your testing. According to comments here, we now have Brother packages that works for most of printers so I set the status of this bug report to fix released. There are probably persisting issues that may be directly related to the Brother drivers. I invite you to open bugs for al

[Bug 25966] Re: NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed

2008-03-24 Thread Till Kamppeter
Saïvann and Jeremy, thank you very much for doing this awkward task of packaging these drivers. Debianizing the Brother drivers in a distribution-friendly way was much more complex than debianizing a typical free software application. So you have learned already a lot to get MOTU already with these

[Bug 25966] Re: NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed

2008-03-24 Thread Saïvann Carignan
Till Kamppeter : Thank you also very much for your guidance, this project would not get at this state without your help. Packaging this was complicate but very funny, especially when we got our first positive results :) . Concerning the LSB-based packages, I actually don't have a lot of knowledge

[Bug 25966] Re: NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed

2008-03-24 Thread Lebowski
New bug report about the A4-problem is here: Bug #206365 Thank you so much for packaging these drivers for Ubuntu. Next should be fixing the A4-problem (and anything else what's found) and for Hardy +1 we need the Brother scanner drivers too. :-) Keep up the awesome work that will make Hardy roc

[Bug 25966] Re: NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed

2008-03-25 Thread Till Kamppeter
Saïvann, no problem with guiding you through the LSB package development. I am the author of the LSB DDK and I am also the leader of the OpenPrinting project and the creator of the concept of distribution- independent printer/scanner driver packages. -- NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother ne

[Bug 25966] Re: NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed

2008-03-25 Thread Bruce Crowther
Installed 8.04 Beta today, eventually got DCP130C printer running using DCP135C driver, could not install DCP130C one via Synaptic, because it has dependency issues. (Printer runs really well! Better than in 7.04 using the Brother supplied drivers.) Have installed the Brother Scanner driver, but

[Bug 25966] Re: NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed

2008-03-25 Thread Saïvann Carignan
Bruce Crowther : You actually use the Brother printer drivers from the Brother website. Your printer driver is also actually in the brother- cups-wrapper-bh7 and brother-lpr-drivers-bh7 packages which you can download with synaptic. ( see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BrotherDriverPackaging ). The probl

[Bug 25966] Re: NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed

2008-02-20 Thread Saïvann Carignan
FriedChicken, Markus Golser and every people that have a printer in the extra packages, the packages are now ready for testing here : http://upload.leservicetechnique.com/brother -- NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/25966 You received this bug notific

[Bug 25966] Re: NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed

2008-02-20 Thread FriedChicken
Removing brother-lpr-drivers-common following error occured: dpkg - Warnung: Während Entfernens von brother-lpr-drivers-common ist Verzeichnis »/usr/local« nicht leer, wird daher nicht gelöscht. Translated this means something like: dpkg - Warnung: During removal of brother-lpr-drivers-common the

[Bug 25966] Re: NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed

2008-02-20 Thread FriedChicken
Great - the package worked with my DCP-120C. I've installed the packages, connected my printer, it was recognized and configured by the assistant and the only thing I had to do was to change the paper format (but of course this is something country-specific). Thank you! -- NEW PACKAGE: Printer

[Bug 25966] Re: NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed

2008-02-20 Thread ubuntu4fun
FriedChicken, I'm glad that it works for You :-) Great job, Guys ! I can't made my printer to work with the new packages also on Gusty. But I still can print using a default foomatic driver. Saivann, I'll test Your drivers on new alpha build soon. -- NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother nee

[Bug 25966] Re: NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed

2008-02-20 Thread Saïvann Carignan
FriedChicken : Thank you for your testing! I'm really happy to see that it worked. Maybe just a precision : Did you test this on Gutsy or Hardy? ubuntu4fun does not seem to get our packages working on Hardy. -- NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/25966

[Bug 25966] Re: NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed

2008-02-20 Thread FriedChicken
I've tested it on Hardy. Maybe I will test it on Gutsy, too. I hope this is possible using a live cd because on my Gutsy system I've manually installed the drivers from brother and as they are working I would prefer not to touch them. -- NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed https://bu

[Bug 25966] Re: NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed

2008-02-20 Thread Saïvann Carignan
FriedChicken : That's great, Hardy will be the release on which the packages will get released so that's the one which really need to be tested. Since you tested in Hardy, I don't think that it's necessary to test it on Gutsy. Many thanks! -- NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed https:

[Bug 25966] Re: NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed

2008-02-20 Thread Saïvann Carignan
Leung, Kai-Cheung , Lebowski, Markus Golser, Martijn Vermaat and others : Can you also give your feedback about the new packages? Don't forget to uninstall Brother packages before installing our packages. Przemysław Kulczycki : There has been serious changes in latest packages, would you like to t

[Bug 25966] Re: NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed

2008-02-20 Thread Lebowski
Hi. It works just GREAT! :-) I uninstalled the two brother-packages and then installed - brother-lpr-drivers-common_1.0.0-1-0ubuntu1_i386.deb - brother-cups-wrapper-common_1.0.0-10-0ubuntu1_i386.deb - brother-lpr-drivers-extra_1.2.0-0ubuntu1_i386.deb - brother-cups-wrapper-extra_1.2.0-0ubuntu1_i3

[Bug 25966] Re: NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed

2008-02-21 Thread Przemysław Kulczycki
I've purged the old drivers, installed the new ones, restarted the system and the printing still doesn't work. system-config-printer shows it as idle, and it can't print the test page (the button changes to "cancel test" so I cancel the test page after few minutes of printer being idle). system-

[Bug 25966] Re: NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed

2008-02-21 Thread Saïvann Carignan
Hehe, Very great! We have 2 persons who confirmed that -extra packages works flawlessly. We now need more testing for laser, laser1, bh7 and ac packages. Volunteers? -- NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/25966 You received this bug notification because

[Bug 25966] Re: NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed

2008-02-21 Thread Saïvann Carignan
Przemysław Kulczycki : Thanks for your comment! Did the official brother printer drivers work for you? If yes, can you download and install the special package that I made just for you? The only difference with that package is that it does not use the compiled cups wrapper from source, but the orig

[Bug 25966] Re: NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed

2008-02-21 Thread webwolf_27
Przemysław Kulczycki: Can you check that printer in http://localhost:631 and make sure that it's activated (not stopped). Also I've noticed problems with printing with HPLIB installed, but that was with certian HP Laserjets. Jeremy -- NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed https://bugs

[Bug 25966] Re: NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed

2008-02-21 Thread Przemysław Kulczycki
They didn't work (btw: official scanner drivers stopped working after 1 restart) and your package doesn't work too :/ I even turned off apparmor, but it didn't help. Cups' logs show that everything is fine: localhost - root [21/Feb/2008:10:10:09 +0100] "POST /printers/Brother_MFC440-CN HTTP/1.1"

[Bug 25966] Re: NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed

2008-02-21 Thread webwolf_27
Przemysław Kulczycki: can you also please check the right's and ownership of the device in question. To be sure this isn't a udev problem Jeremy -- NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/25966 You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 25966] Re: NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed

2008-02-21 Thread webwolf_27
Przemysław Kulczycki: after getting the device with lsusb (should look something like: Bus 005 Device 002: ID 04f9:0193 Brother Industries, Ltd) run "ls -l /dev/bus/usb/005" and paste the output here. -- NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/25966 You

[Bug 25966] Re: NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed

2008-02-21 Thread Przemysław Kulczycki
It is activated. How can I check the ownership? Every user is allowed to print on my laptop. Don't forget that it's a network printer (MFC-440CN). I've followed instructions from Brother's site: http://solutions.brother.com/linux/sol/printer/linux/cups_network.html but the printer doesn't print

[Bug 25966] Re: NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed

2008-02-21 Thread Saïvann Carignan
Przemysław Kulczycki : The Brother website tell you to set lpd://xx.xx.xx.xx/binary_p1 for your printer, did you use the good IP address? And also, IMO, binary_p1 should probably be changed for the printer name or something like that, the user manual of the printer is probably more explicit about t

[Bug 25966] Re: NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed

2008-02-21 Thread Przemysław Kulczycki
webwolf_27: It's a _network_ printer, it's connected with a network cable to my router, not to my laptop. Saivann: the IP is good. I can access it with ping and ftp (for using the printer's flash card reader). The queue name is also good. That's a generic Brother queue name, it's also used in the

[Bug 25966] Re: NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed

2008-02-21 Thread Przemysław Kulczycki
I tried with blank, binary_p1, binary_p2, BINARY_P1, and id didn't work. lpinfo doesn't show my printer. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ LC_ALL=en_US lpinfo -l -v Device: uri = socket class = network info = AppSocket/HP JetDirect make-and-model = Unknown device-id = Device: u

[Bug 25966] Re: NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed

2008-02-21 Thread webwolf_27
Przemysław Kulczycki: Sorry if I insulted your intelligence. Experience has taught me to always assume the minimum level of computer literacy, unless you know otherwise ;-}. Now I know otherwise. -- NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/25966 You receiv

[Bug 25966] Re: NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed

2008-02-21 Thread ubuntu4fun
Maybe You should post an annauncement abaut the testing of the new packages at this Brother dedicated subforum: http://forums.openprinting.org/list.php?24 The links below might also be helpful for some users: http://openprinting.org/printer_list.cgi?make=Brother http://www.linuxquestions.org/q

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