Cups

[Karl Larsen]

Richard England wrote:
> Karl Larsen wrote:
>>     I have learned a lot today and it is all bad. Let us assume the 
>> udev update I got is what ruined my printing. The obvious thing to do 
>> is delete the update. But you can not do that.
>>
>>     The update becomes part of the whole file for udev. This you can't 
>> just remove because it is used by the whole computer!
>>
>>     So I think I need to get out my DVD and look for the old udev rpm 
>> and force it to replace the updated one.
>>
>>     If that doesn't work do the same thing to the others. A whole lot 
>> of work. Maybe easier to just reload f7?
>>
>>
>>
> 
> I have an HP Deskjet 722C connected to an F7 machine through the 
> parallel port and I'm using the most recent udev update. I would not 
> suspect udev yet.
> 
>  I Have  hpijs-1.7.4a-4.fc7 and hplip-1.7.4a-4.fc7  installed so that 
> may help in identifying the type of printer (I'm a neophyte with 
> printers) and the printer shows up in the CUPS web interface with a URI 
> of   hp:/par/DESKJET_720c?device=/dev/parport0
> 
	If you have the updated cups files installed you will never get that HP 
working. Because the new Cups will not accept any printer using the 
parallel port.

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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
	Linux User
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