Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 18:03:53 +0100 From: Roger Olofsson <240olofsson@telia.com> To: Laszlo Nagy <gandalf@shopzeus.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CUPS: cannot see printer from various program Message-ID: <49302479.6080505@telia.com> In-Reply-To: <492E4F79.7090309@shopzeus.com> References: <492E4F79.7090309@shopzeus.com>
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Laszlo Nagy skrev: > The printer is Epson Stylus Photo R265. I'm using gutenprint 5 and CUPS. > The test page prints well from CUPS. I can also print images and web > pages from firefox, because the "CUPS/R265" printer can be selected in > the print dialog of firefox. > > However, when I open an image from eog (eye of gnome), the only printer > destination I can choose is "LPR". Which is bad, because this is a > printer server with diskless clients, and the users must be able to > select print options from the GUI. > > The system is FreeBSD 7.0. My girlfriend had the same problem with > Ubuntu before, but not with kiwi, so it might not be related to FreeBSD. > > Thanks, > > Laci > > _______________________________________________ > 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" > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com > Version: 8.0.175 / Virus Database: 270.9.10/1812 - Release Date: 2008-11-25 19:53 > Hello Laszlo, You might want to add the following lines to /etc/make.conf CUPS_OVERWRITE_BASE=yes NO_LPR=yes WITH_CUPS=yes And rebuild the application you want to print from. (The above was found on the excellent guide at http://www.math.colostate.edu/~reinholz/freebsd/) Greetings /Roger
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