From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 5 17:37:54 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 0564116A4DF for ; Sat, 5 Aug 2006 17:37:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from micahjon@ywave.com) Received: from relay3.av-mx.com (relay3.av-mx.com [137.118.16.123]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8630F43D46 for ; Sat, 5 Aug 2006 17:37:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from micahjon@ywave.com) X-Virus-Scan-Time: 0 Received: from [137.118.16.61] (HELO mx0.av-mx.com) by relay3.av-mx.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.10) with SMTP id 355357840 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 05 Aug 2006 13:37:53 -0400 Received: (qmail 3826 invoked from network); 5 Aug 2006 17:37:52 -0000 Received: from dsl17146.ywave.com (HELO ?192.168.1.65?) (micahjon@ywave.com@216.227.104.146) by 0 with SMTP; 5 Aug 2006 17:37:52 -0000 X-CLIENT-IP: 216.227.104.146 X-CLIENT-HOST: dsl17146.ywave.com Message-ID: <44D4D76E.8010506@ywave.com> Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2006 10:37:50 -0700 From: Micah User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060730) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Johnson References: <200608041134.35807.david@usermode.org> <200608041447.11069.lists@jnielsen.net> <200608041248.37285.david@usermode.org> In-Reply-To: <200608041248.37285.david@usermode.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: Sat, 05 Aug 2006 17:37:54 -0000 David Johnson wrote: > 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. I've had this problem when using /dev/ulpt instead of /dev/unlpt. Might be worth a try if you haven't yet. HTH, Micah