Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2005 20:09:32 -0400 From: Mike Jeays <Mike.Jeays@rogers.com> To: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CUPS hp deskjet driver install fails Message-ID: <1118189371.67621.3.camel@chaucer> In-Reply-To: <6FD56223B3811C40ED02A8CE@utd59514.utdallas.edu> References: <6FD56223B3811C40ED02A8CE@utd59514.utdallas.edu>
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On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 19:00, Paul Schmehl wrote: > I'm running 5.4 RELEASE. I installed cups, set up two printers (one hplj > network printer and one hpdj parallel port printer) and printed test pages. > The network printer printed a test page just fine. The parallel port > deskjet printer took about 45 minutes to print a test page. > > Thinking it was a driver problem (I was using the standard cups driver), I > installed print/hpijs using the WITH_CUPS=yes option. Then I started up > print manager (in gnome2) to install the driver. It failed with an error - > "CUPS is installed differently than expected. There is no directory > '/usr/share/cups/model'. > > There *is* a directory /usr/local/share/cups/model, so I created the > /usr/share/cups directory and created a symlink in that directory to > /usr/local/share/cups/model. > > I then attempted to install the driver again and got the following error > message: > "Line longer than the maximum allowed (255 characters) at > 1:'/usr/local/share/ppd/HP/HP-Deskjet_932C-hpijs.ppd.gz' (which is the > driver I'm trying to install.) > > Does anyone have a suggestion for my next step? > > Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu) > Adjunct Information Security Officer > University of Texas at Dallas > AVIEN Founding Member > http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/ > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" I had a similar problem with a printer on the parallel port - the answer was the lptcontrol command, to switch it from interrupt to polled mode. Look at "man lptcontrol".
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