Hi All, (sorry about the huge post)
I seem to be having no end of 'issues' with my printer. I have an
Epson Photo 950, USB and FC2 (2.6.7-1.494.2.2).
Basicly, I cannot get my printer to respond more than once - and I
think its a USB problem.
If I reboot and type the Escputil command for checking ink, I get:
[root@mailgate root]# escputil -u -i -r /dev/usb/lp0
Escputil version 4.2.6, Copyright (C) 2000-2001 Robert Krawitz
Escputil comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type 'escputil -l'
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; type 'escputil -l' for details.
Read from printer timed out
Cannot parse output from printer
But, if I try again straight away, I get:
[root@mailgate root]# escputil -u -i -r /dev/usb/lp0
Escputil version 4.2.6, Copyright (C) 2000-2001 Robert Krawitz
Escputil comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type 'escputil -l'
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; type 'escputil -l' for details.
Ink colour Percent remaining
Black 19
Cyan 57
Magenta 47
Yellow 13
Light Cyan 46
Light Magenta 42
Black/Dark Yellow 99
Which is fab, just like I'd expect. If I try however to do anything
else with the printer it just 'hangs'. For example trying Escputil
again, gets:
[root@mailgate root]# escputil -u -i -r /dev/usb/lp0
Escputil version 4.2.6, Copyright (C) 2000-2001 Robert Krawitz
Escputil comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type 'escputil -l'
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; type 'escputil -l' for details.
and nothing more - it doesn't time out - I can't kill -9 the process.
I have to reboot to clear it.
Now I know this printer works, and I know there is enough ink - there
are no red lights on the printer.
This is the fun part - there is nothing in the logs about USB at all
when it hangs. If I try and print anything (from within the CUPS
webpage or a test doc) I get the following in my cups error.log
Unable to open USB device "usb://EPSON/Stylus%20Photo%20950": No such device
Along with lots of 'Unknown directive @@' lines
lsmod gives:
Module Size Used by
ip_conntrack_irc 70769 0
ip_conntrack_ftp 71153 0
ipt_limit 2625 2
ipt_LOG 5825 1
parport_pc 21249 1
lp 9133 0
parport 35977 2 parport_pc,lp
autofs4 20677 0
sunrpc 141861 1
ipt_REJECT 5057 0
ipt_state 1857 1
ip_conntrack 25569 3 ip_conntrack_irc,ip_conntrack_ftp,ipt_state
iptable_filter 2369 1
ip_tables 13889 5
ipt_limit,ipt_LOG,ipt_REJECT,ipt_state,iptable_filter
via_rhine 19273 0
mii 3777 1 via_rhine
floppy 54001 0
sg 28385 0
dm_mod 47317 0
usblp 10817 1
joydev 7169 0
usb_storage 58121 0
uhci_hcd 28505 0
ehci_hcd 27973 0
button 4825 0
battery 7117 0
asus_acpi 9177 0
ac 3533 0
nvidia 4822196 12
ipv6 216325 18
ext3 96937 3
jbd 66521 1 ext3
sata_via 4805 0
libata 29637 1 sata_via
sd_mod 17473 0
scsi_mod 105361 4 sg,usb_storage,libata,sd_mod
and rpm -qa | grep gimp gives:
gimp-data-extras-1.2.0-11
xsane-gimp-0.92-10
gimp-print-cups-4.2.6-11
gimp-print-plugin-4.2.6-11
gtkam-gimp-0.1.11-2
gimp-2.0.4-0.fc2.1
gimp-print-utils-4.2.6-11
gimp-print-4.2.6-11
dmesg shows this on boot:
Aug 11 13:53:33 mailgate kernel: drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: usblp0:
USB Bidirectional printer dev 3 if 0 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x04B8 pid
0x0005
Aug 11 13:53:33 mailgate kernel: usbcore: registered new driver usblp
Aug 11 13:53:33 mailgate kernel: drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: v0.13: USB
Printer Device Class driver
cat /proc/bus/usb/devices gives this for the printer:
T: Bus=03 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=01 Cnt=02 Dev#= 3 Spd=12 MxCh= 0
D: Ver= 1.10 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1
P: Vendor=04b8 ProdID=0005 Rev= 1.00
S: Manufacturer=EPSON
S: Product=USB Printer
S: SerialNumber=L76010309150106370
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=c0 MxPwr= 2mA
I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 2 Cls=07(print) Sub=01 Prot=02 Driver=usblp
E: Ad=01(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl=0ms
E: Ad=82(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl=0ms
ls -la /dev/usb/lp0 gives:
crw-rw---- 1 root lp 180, 0 Feb 23 21:02 /dev/usb/lp0
Could anybody offer me any clues? Even a way of increasing logging would help.
Is there any other information I can provide?
I have tried other USB ports in this machine.
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NiceBloke, going slowy insane.
