From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 4 19:49:01 2006 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 9C03716A4DD for ; Fri, 4 Aug 2006 19:49:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from david@usermode.org) Received: from outbound0.sv.meer.net (outbound0.mx.meer.net [209.157.153.23]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D6FA43D49 for ; Fri, 4 Aug 2006 19:48:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from david@usermode.org) Received: from mail.meer.net (mail.meer.net [209.157.152.14]) by outbound0.sv.meer.net (8.12.10/8.12.6) with ESMTP id k74Jmnj4053309; Fri, 4 Aug 2006 12:48:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from david@usermode.org) Received: from scatha.usermode.org (covad-usermode.meer.net [209.157.140.26]) by mail.meer.net (8.13.3/8.13.3/meer) with ESMTP id k74Jmch3030026; Fri, 4 Aug 2006 12:48:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from david@usermode.org) From: David Johnson To: John Nielsen Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 12:48:37 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 References: <200608041134.35807.david@usermode.org> <200608041447.11069.lists@jnielsen.net> In-Reply-To: <200608041447.11069.lists@jnielsen.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200608041248.37285.david@usermode.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cups problems 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: Fri, 04 Aug 2006 19:49:01 -0000 On Friday 04 August 2006 11:47, John Nielsen wrote: > You have the permissions fixed, which was half the solution for me > when I made the upgrade. The other half was to abandon cups' usb > back-end for the time being, since it doesn't work (as well as it > used to). The workaround suggested in an earlier thread on this > subject was to stop cups and manually edit the printers.conf file (in > /usr/local/etc/cups), replacing the "usb:" portion of the printer URI > with "file:". This worked for me and several others, although I > remember posts that it did not work for some. It works! Thank you! There is one oddity though. The printer "ready" light flashes as normal, but then the "attention" light flashes. Pressing the "go" button then prints out the job. According to the printer manual, this means either "manual feed" or "continuation error". I suspect that somehow manual feed is getting sent to the printer (even though it isn't set in cups printer options). A minor annoyance, but one I can live with. -- David Johnson