Cups
Aaron Konstam
akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Wed Aug 8 20:39:49 UTC 2007
On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 08:13 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> 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
>
I also have the same parports that you have and there is no parallel
port on my machine. I would conclude then that udev is nto the problem
but cups is.
However, we are getting conflicting reports on this matter.
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