Kevin O'Gorman wrote on 05/02/08 04:13: > > hp-setup stubbornly refuses to acknowledge /dev/lp0 > > > I got it to work, but don't really know what was wrong. The drive > > that held my root directory and all configs had failed. Friday, i > > got it back from the DiskSavers, along with the data on a new USB > > external drive. Copying over the cups config files just magically > > made the printer work locally.
> > I'm still struggling with a host of issues, so I'm going to ignore > > the fact that I have no idea what keeps my CUPS working. > Please check that you have USE=parport enabled for hplip > Thanks for the help. I did find that hplip was compiled without the > parport flag. Since local printing on the parallel port is now working > without it, I wonder what it does? Dale beat me to pointing out that you may have missed the parport USE flag, most likely the cause of the problem. I guess that you've restored your old /etc/hp/hplip.conf, which was probably enough to enable the cups print queue once you restored your /etc/cups directory. The hp-setup in the new hplip probably needs the parport USE flag to determine whether to support parallel port probes. Without the parport USE flag, I guess that it assumes that you're not interested in them. > Thanks, and I'll get that info when I have things a bit more stable. Good luck, hope you get your system stabilised soon. Cheers, Dave -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
