Aaron Konstam wrote:
On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 18:33 -0700, Richard England wrote:
Karl Larsen wrote:
Richard England wrote:
Karl Larsen wrote:
I have learned a lot today and it is all bad. Let us assume the
udev update I got is what ruined my printing. The obvious thing to
do is delete the update. But you can not do that.
The update becomes part of the whole file for udev. This you
can't just remove because it is used by the whole computer!
So I think I need to get out my DVD and look for the old udev
rpm and force it to replace the updated one.
If that doesn't work do the same thing to the others. A whole
lot of work. Maybe easier to just reload f7?
I have an HP Deskjet 722C connected to an F7 machine through the
parallel port and I'm using the most recent udev update. I would not
suspect udev yet.
I Have hpijs-1.7.4a-4.fc7 and hplip-1.7.4a-4.fc7 installed so that
may help in identifying the type of printer (I'm a neophyte with
printers) and the printer shows up in the CUPS web interface with a
URI of hp:/par/DESKJET_720c?device=/dev/parport0
If you have the updated cups files installed you will never get
that HP working. Because the new Cups will not accept any printer
using the parallel port.
Wrong. It's working, now.
That was the point of my mail.
You CAN use a parallel port printer. Even one that is not well
supported. The "New CUPS" has no problem with the parallel port.
~~R
I have Karl's questiom. I can not find a parallel port option in the
latest cups. Where did you find it? Or did you have yout printer
configured before the cups update?
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It very well be that I inherited the setting from a previous udev
configured CUPS configuration session. I know it was done manually on a
fresh F7 install but if udev changed to remove the parallel port then
that's probably why I have it but others can't generate a new one.
Sounds like a new udev is already available, though.
~~R
