On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 11:35 -0400, Bill Baker wrote: > Has this ever happened to anyone else? > > Every time I start xsane, I lose the ability to print to my printer and > I have to reboot my computer to regain the ability to print. Both the > printer and the scanner are daisy chained off of the parallel port. > First in the chain is the scanner, which is an HP ScanJet 3200C and the > printer is an HP DeskJet 812C. I've tried restarting CUPS and even > deleting and re-adding the printer, but those don't seem to work. Does > anyone else have any ideas? > > The software versions I'm using are: > sane-backends 1.0.15-9 > xsane 0.95-3 > cups 1.1.23-15.1 > Never mind, I figured it out. The module ppdev was interfering with my ability to print. I simply stopped cups, rmmod'ed ppdev along with lp, parport_pc and parport, then modprobed lp, parport_pc and parport and then restarted cups.
