On Wednesday 08 August 2007, Aaron Konstam wrote: >On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 12:11 +0100, Tim Waugh wrote: >> On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 05:49 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: >> > It is not udev. It is the fact that cups no longer supports parallel >> > printers. A bugzilla needs to be created. >> >> It is udev, and a bugzilla bug has already been created. >> >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=251272 >> >> Tim. >> */ > >Well your experience seems to indicate that udev is the problem. It >occurred to me that maybe I don't see a parallel port option in cups >because I don't have a parallel port on my machine. > >But why does Karl not see it when he has a parallel port? Good question Aaron. This thread has been going on so long now that I'm tempted to build me a kernel with the parport driver, which I haven't for years because I have no parport device, having found that my elderly C82 runs faster on a usb port. However, in my case I really wouldn't expect to see a parport option even available at step 2 of the modify printer from the cups web page procedure. However, even though I have no parport support in this 2.6.23-rc2 kernel, I see that udev has indeed setup a list of them. This, except for gutenprint being pinned at 5.10, is an uptodate machine as of yesterday: [root@coyote clips]# ls -l /dev/p* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Aug 6 09:13 /dev/par0 -> usb/lp0 crw-rw---- 1 root lp 99, 0 Aug 6 09:13 /dev/parport0 crw-rw---- 1 root lp 99, 1 Aug 6 09:13 /dev/parport1 crw-rw---- 1 root lp 99, 2 Aug 6 09:13 /dev/parport2 crw-rw---- 1 root lp 99, 3 Aug 6 09:13 /dev/parport3 crw-r----- 1 root kmem 1, 4 Aug 6 09:13 /dev/port crw------- 1 root root 108, 0 Aug 6 09:13 /dev/ppp crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty 5, 2 Aug 8 08:03 /dev/ptmx Which I find interesting, and would consider udev's making them a bug when there is no driver available to be driven. And given that they are there, I would have to assume cups would offer the option... >From the .config that built this kernel: # CONFIG_PARPORT is not set -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) We are MicroSoft. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile. (Attributed to B.G., Gill Bates)
