> 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. For anyone who is interested, the problem regarding the parallel ports and printing appears to be a udev problem. A udev update addressing this problem has been pushed out. A couple of hours ago, I received the following announcement: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2007-1491 2007-08-08 08:34:06.263874 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : udev Product : Fedora 7 Version : 113 Release : 9.fc7 Summary : A userspace implementation of devfs Description : The udev package contains an implementation of devfs in userspace using sysfs and netlink. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: re-adds /dev/lp* device nodes -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Wed Aug 8 2007 Harald Hoyer <harald@xxxxxxxxxx> - 113-9 - added lp* to 50-udev.nodes (#251272) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- With any luck, this will resolve everyone's problems with CUPS parallel port printing. Rod
