On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 08:13 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > 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 > I also have the same parports that you have and there is no parallel port on my machine. I would conclude then that udev is nto the problem but cups is. However, we are getting conflicting reports on this matter. -- ======================================================================= There are times when truth is stranger than fiction and lunch time is one of them. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
