From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 8 00:09:34 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDD7F16A422 for ; Wed, 8 Jun 2005 00:09:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Mike.Jeays@rogers.com) Received: from smtp104.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp104.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com [206.190.36.82]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 19C6D43D5D for ; Wed, 8 Jun 2005 00:09:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Mike.Jeays@rogers.com) Received: (qmail 25622 invoked from network); 8 Jun 2005 00:09:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.2.150?) (mjeays2551@24.114.152.139 with plain) by smtp104.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 8 Jun 2005 00:09:32 -0000 From: Mike Jeays To: Paul Schmehl In-Reply-To: <6FD56223B3811C40ED02A8CE@utd59514.utdallas.edu> References: <6FD56223B3811C40ED02A8CE@utd59514.utdallas.edu> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1118189371.67621.3.camel@chaucer> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2005 20:09:32 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CUPS hp deskjet driver install fails X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 00:09:34 -0000 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".