Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2008 18:04:30 -0600 From: Jason Bacon <jwbacon@tds.net> To: Michael Johnson <ahze@freebsd.org> Cc: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>, freebsd-ports-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports/121338: Unable to create the Foomatic driver Message-ID: <47CDE38E.6030103@tds.net> In-Reply-To: <b2203fed0803031638q3800ab99h24cf7845c43091d6@mail.gmail.com> References: <200803040000.m24005Tw090583@freefall.freebsd.org> <b2203fed0803031627i25b21a3oaf38705bb9d36dca@mail.gmail.com> <b2203fed0803031638q3800ab99h24cf7845c43091d6@mail.gmail.com>
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Michael Johnson wrote:
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> On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 7:27 PM, Michael Johnson <ahze@freebsd.org
> <mailto:ahze@freebsd.org>> wrote:
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> On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 7:00 PM, Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com
> <mailto:linimon@lonesome.com>> wrote:
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> The following reply was made to PR ports/121338; it has been
> noted by GNATS.
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> From: linimon@lonesome.com <mailto:linimon@lonesome.com> (Mark
> Linimon)
> To: Jason Bacon <jwbacon@tds.net <mailto:jwbacon@tds.net>>
> Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
> <mailto:freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org>
> Subject: Re: ports/121338: Unable to create the Foomatic driver
> Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 17:58:26 -0600
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> Is this a problem in gutenprint or in cups?
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> I'm not sure as I don't have the printer he is using, but I imagine
> it's gutenprint (assuming cups is set up correctly).
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Cups seems to be fine. As I mentioned, the printer worked (but too
slowly) with a different driver. My Laserjet was also working fine
until the power supply croaked on the print server. :-(
I also have a nearly identical 6.3-RELEASE setup rolled out to 8
machines so far, and have had no problems printing to various HP printers.
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> We could always bring back gimp-print if there is a demand for it.
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If there are a lot of problems with gutenprint, that might not be a bad
idea, but if most people are doing OK with it I'd rather help work out
this glitch that see man-hours spent on redundant ports.
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> Jason, please try gimp-print and see if it works for you
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I tried to install it a few days ago, but it didn't build. I will try
again when I have more time.
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> actually what version of foomatic-db do you have installed?
First try was with packages from the 6.3-RELEASE CD. On Sunday, I did a
portsnap fetch and update, and reinstalled cups*, gutenprint*, and
foomatic* from source.
Still the same problem.
FYI, I tried selecting some other printers, like HP and Panasonic. In
every case, the foomatic+gutenprint driver produced the same error:
Unable to load the requested driver:
Unable to create the Foomatic driver [HP-LaserJet_1100,gutenprint].
Either that driver does not exist, or you don't have the required
permissions to perform that operation.
I also tried doing the setup from the cups server at localhost:631. The
setup would finish, but then the printer would be stopped as soon as I
tried to access it.
Jason
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