printer problems F13

[Tim Waugh]

On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 15:32 -0400, Gregory Pittman wrote:
> 1. Plug-n-play automatic detection and setup of printers no longer 
> happens. Other USB devices get found as usual.

Do you still have system-config-printer-udev installed?  Take a look
in /var/log/messages -- if necessary, edit /etc/rsyslog.conf and get it
to log "debug" messages by changing '*.info' to '*.debug' in
the /var/log/messages line and restarting it; then plug in a printer and
see what messages you get.

> 2. trying to use the menu-based Printer configuration ends with it 
> finding the printer, then telling packagekit to look for drivers, after 
> which it says that the drivers are installed, and it quits with an error.

PackageKit bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=585601

But "it quits" -- the "install packages" dialog, run by
gnome-packagekit, quits, yes.  But system-config-printer should still be
there and ready for you to carry on creating the queue.  Are you finding
that system-config-printer itself has quit?  Would love to see if there
is a message about that in your ~/.xsession-errors file.

> 5. Using 'system-config-printer' on the command line by root will allow 
> for setting up a USB-parallel connections printer.

This shouldn't be any different at all to running it from the menu as a
non-root user, aside from some PolicyKit dialogs.  All the privileged
stuff is running by cupsd.

Tim.
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