Date: Sat, 05 Dec 2009 10:48:05 -0600 From: eculp <eculp@encontacto.net> To: Steve Randall <srandall52@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The new cups ports seem to not recognize usb printers on FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE Message-ID: <20091205104805.176430cpxpy7k6w4@econet.encontacto.net> In-Reply-To: <20091205093650.6439cec5@locust.local> References: <20091202084306.121847d0zp3fztwk@econet.encontacto.net> <20091202084306.121847d0zp3fztwk@econet.encontacto.net> <20091204124910.11215lzimo1iaagw@econet.encontacto.net> <otHhXjzvvd@dmeyer.dinoex.sub.org> <4B19FACE.7000102@brianwhalen.net> <20091205074138.11126jd79g8tg0gs@econet.encontacto.net> <20091205093650.6439cec5@locust.local>
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Quoting Steve Randall <srandall52@gmail.com>: > On Sat, 05 Dec 2009 07:41:38 -0600 > eculp <eculp@encontacto.net> wrote: > >> Quoting "Brian W." <brian@brianwhalen.net>: >> >> > Dirk Meyer wrote: >> >> eculp schrieb:, >> >> >> >> >> >>> would seem that I'm going to have to upgrade all my 7.2-STABLE >> >>> servers to either 8.0 or 9.0 that all have usb printers that are >> >>> being shared by others through cups. >> >>> >> >> >> >> Please update the ports and try again. >> >> I would like to know if using libusb solves your problems. > > libusb is the cause of the problem. > > >> >> Thanks, Dirk. My ports, src, kernel, lib, are completely up to date >> on all my 7.2 machines. Daily, I' ve been cvsuping and rebuilding all >> for the last week. >> cvsup - make buildworld - make buildkernel - make installkernel - >> make installworld - portmaster -a >> This is in addition to having rebuild all cups related ports multiple >> times. If I need to do something to "use libusb", I haven't. maybe >> that is the problem. > > I should have thought of this sooner. > > The best and final (I think) solution is to add --disable-libusb to the > configuration options in cups-base/Makefile and rebuild. > > I tested this on 8.0 rather than 7, and didn't try printing, but I > verified that the USB backend sees the traditional /dev/ulptx > device rather than using libusb, so I think it will work for you. That certainly make sense to me. I am now recompiling without libusb. =20 I'll let the list know as soon as I can. Thanks, ed
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