Kudzu and automatic detection

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le lundi 06 décembre 2004 à 13:54 -0500, John (J5) Palmieri a écrit :
> On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 13:30, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> > Le lundi 06 décembre 2004 à 12:38 -0500, John (J5) Palmieri a écrit :
> > 
> > > I don't see a bug on this in bugzilla.  Rule of thumb is if it is not
> > > filed in bugzilla it is not going to get fixed.  This is why we have the
> > > test releases and rawhide.  Please file a bug on hal-cups-utils.
> > 
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=119970
> > 
> > And yes the problem evolved somewhat since the bug was filled. The
> > number of steps to perform to get the printer operational after power-up
> > has shrunk a bit. But the autodetected hal printer is still pretty
> > useless - if I hadn't created my own printer setup (with a different
> > name than the HAL one else HAL would just nuke it) I couldn't print
> > without going into system-config-printer every single time the printer
> > is powered up.
> 
> That bug is before my time.  HAL has come in to fix what you have been
> experiencing and *should* work out of the box for most printers.  Why it
> doesn't work for you even though it sets the queue up for you is all
> together different. 

When I filled the bug the system didn't set up a new queue for the
printer when it was powered on *and* the old system-config-printer queue
didn't work anymore because somehow the printer device was changing
and/or cups didn't believe the printer was available again without doing
strong vodoo in system-config-printer.

Now the system can set up a new hal queue *and* the old manual one is
still working without major user intervention. So I use the manual
queue. I must admit I didn't try the hal queue lately (synonymous with
wasted paper so far) but last time I did every time I powered up the
printer HAL recreated a "default" queue for the model and forgot all my
old paper/dpi/economode/driver choices (this is a printer that can do
both PCL & PS, foomatic suggests PCL because a sister model can only do
PCL and the foomatic authors are afraid of user errors, but PS print
quality is much better) 

> Please file a new bug or reassign the current bug
> to the hal-cups-config module with the precise steps you take to print a
> document. Thanks.

Will try to do it next saturday. Don't have time to do a clean job
before.

Cheers,

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot
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