On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 11:18 PM, Bill Kenworthy <bi...@iinet.net.au> wrote: > On Tue, 2012-07-24 at 21:54 -0500, Dale wrote: >> Paul Hartman wrote: >> > On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Alan Mackenzie <a...@muc.de> wrote: >> >> Evening, Experts! >> >> >> >> My printer isn't printing. >> >> >> >> More precisely, when in CUPS 1.5.2 (localhost:631), CUPS fails to find >> >> the printer. When I click on "Find New Printers" it comes back with >> >> "Available Printers - No Printers Found.". >> >> >> >> My system has been like this since I converted back from mdev to udev. >> >> Though I have just built Linux 3.3.8 in the hope that a new kernel build >> >> would help. ;-(. >> >> >> >> Help would be most appreciated. >> >> >> >> TIA! >> > I had to blacklist the usblp module for CUPS to work with my printer. >> > FWIW. :) >> > >> > >> >> >> I think I read something about this a while back. Maybe google can turn >> up a reason why since my memory is like a screen door, only catches some >> stuff but lets everything else flow right through. ;-) >> >> Since I have not had any trouble with my printer, I bet it was on this >> mailing list or KDE's mailing list. Those are the only two I subscribe >> to. >> >> Dale >> >> :-) :-) >> > > This broke my printing as well - I went the route of taking the module > out of the kernel config. But what I didnt resolve to my satisfaction, > is what is the best solution? - there are two that work but which > *should* we use?
I believe allowing CUPS to handle it directly is the preferred solution. Though that's not ideal if you're looking to, e.g. dump a text file directly to /dev/lp0, or write syslog to a printer. So, really, it depends on your use case. I expect the majority of people would find they want CUPS to handle it. -- :wq
