From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 29 15:15:17 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D90E16A4CE for ; Sun, 29 Feb 2004 15:15:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from imo-d02.mx.aol.com (imo-d02.mx.aol.com [205.188.157.34]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 436DD43D1D for ; Sun, 29 Feb 2004 15:15:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jswitzy75@netscape.net) Received: from jswitzy75@netscape.net by imo-d02.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v36_r4.14.) id n.3.c3239f2 (16238) for ; Sun, 29 Feb 2004 18:15:10 -0500 (EST) Received: from netscape.net (node51-157.resnet.pr.erau.edu [206.207.157.51]) by air-in03.mx.aol.com (v98.11) with ESMTP id MAILININ32-3f6e4042727c343; Sun, 29 Feb 2004 18:15:09 -0500 Message-ID: <4042727C.7060607@netscape.net> Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 16:15:08 -0700 From: Jacob Switzenberg User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AOL-IP: 206.207.157.51 X-Mailer: Unknown (No Version) Subject: CUPS printer selection in KDE stop working X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 23:15:17 -0000 Does anyone know how CUPS uses it's backend? I have an Epson C80 attached to a USB port and after the initial install of FreeBSD 5.2.1 (I've tried 4.9 and the same thing happens as described further), I can choose a local USB printer through the Add Printer/Class of the KDE Printing Manager using the CUPS printing system. Before I add the printer I install CUPS-PSTORASTER (which installs its dependencies ie. GHOSTSCRIPT, ESPGS, etc.) and GIMP-PRINT (for the C80 PPD) and at some point I lose the ability to choose the local USB printer selection in the KDE Printing Manager, all of the selections are grayed out with only "Other printer type" and "Class of printers" available. Any ideas of what is going on, or what has happened? I've tried deinstalling CUPS-BASE (through make deinstall) and then reinstalling, installing CUPS-BASE/PSTORASTER 1.20, upgrading to KDE 3.2, but the options remain grayed out. I apologize if this is the wrong list to post this in. Jacob