Cups
Gene Heskett
gene.heskett at verizon.net
Wed Aug 8 12:13:04 UTC 2007
On Wednesday 08 August 2007, Aaron Konstam wrote:
>On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 12:11 +0100, Tim Waugh wrote:
>> On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 05:49 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
>> > It is not udev. It is the fact that cups no longer supports parallel
>> > printers. A bugzilla needs to be created.
>>
>> It is udev, and a bugzilla bug has already been created.
>>
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=251272
>>
>> Tim.
>> */
>
>Well your experience seems to indicate that udev is the problem. It
>occurred to me that maybe I don't see a parallel port option in cups
>because I don't have a parallel port on my machine.
>
>But why does Karl not see it when he has a parallel port?
Good question Aaron. This thread has been going on so long now that I'm
tempted to build me a kernel with the parport driver, which I haven't for
years because I have no parport device, having found that my elderly C82 runs
faster on a usb port.
However, in my case I really wouldn't expect to see a parport option even
available at step 2 of the modify printer from the cups web page procedure.
However, even though I have no parport support in this 2.6.23-rc2 kernel, I
see that udev has indeed setup a list of them. This, except for gutenprint
being pinned at 5.10, is an uptodate machine as of yesterday:
[root at coyote clips]# ls -l /dev/p*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Aug 6 09:13 /dev/par0 -> usb/lp0
crw-rw---- 1 root lp 99, 0 Aug 6 09:13 /dev/parport0
crw-rw---- 1 root lp 99, 1 Aug 6 09:13 /dev/parport1
crw-rw---- 1 root lp 99, 2 Aug 6 09:13 /dev/parport2
crw-rw---- 1 root lp 99, 3 Aug 6 09:13 /dev/parport3
crw-r----- 1 root kmem 1, 4 Aug 6 09:13 /dev/port
crw------- 1 root root 108, 0 Aug 6 09:13 /dev/ppp
crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty 5, 2 Aug 8 08:03 /dev/ptmx
Which I find interesting, and would consider udev's making them a bug when
there is no driver available to be driven. And given that they are there, I
would have to assume cups would offer the option...
>From the .config that built this kernel:
# CONFIG_PARPORT is not set
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