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DaveS

Joined: 09 Oct 2008 Posts: 3726 Location: UK
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Posted: Mon 28 Sep 2009, 01:08 Post subject:
Subject description: Canon cnij-common drivers |
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Patriot wrote: | Hmmm .....
During the recent troubleshooting of plankenstein's canon ip2600, I have encountered a bug in several canon cnij (InkJet) drivers
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I guess this relates to Canons own drivers rather than the included Gutenprint options? I ask because I have had no problems with native Gutenprint driver for ip4600.
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Patriot

Joined: 15 Jan 2009 Posts: 734
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Posted: Mon 28 Sep 2009, 01:57 Post subject:
Subject description: Canon cnij-common drivers |
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Hmmm .....
DaveS wrote: | ..... I guess this relates to Canons own drivers rather than the included Gutenprint options? I ask because I have had no problems with native Gutenprint driver for ip4600. |
Yes, it affects canon's own drivers prior to v3.00. The ip4600 uses v3.00 drivers and is not affected by this. If you have tried the canon ip4600 drivers that was extracted directly from .deb or .rpm then that's where the problem begins ...
Canon drivers are somewhat distro dependent (to be precise: directory layout dependent). If any one of the symlinks or files is not in the expected location, it borks out ... I noticed this behaviour during the ip2600 troubleshooting ... We need to hunt down where they should actually be ... The best solution is to completely rebuild from the sources for puppy ...
Rgds
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setecio
Joined: 01 Nov 2006 Posts: 326 Location: UK
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Posted: Fri 02 Oct 2009, 13:26 Post subject:
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Could you answer a few questions for me as I'll be trying to use CUPS 1.3.9 in NOP 4.13 and probably recycling old computers;
In the list you have CUPS, Gutenprint, HPLIP, PNM2PPA, SPLIX, FOO2ZJS
What are all these? Are they components of CUPS or alternatives to CUPS or are they all the inter-related components needed to make CUPS work ?
[EDIT] I've just hopped over to the HPLIP site and this reads as if it is an alternative to CUPS, is this true. If I had an HP printer would I use HPLIP instead of CUPS ?
To get CUPS to work is it sometimes as simple as finding the appropriate .ppd file and putting it in /usr/share/cups/model and then opening CUPS and adding the printer ?
Is this the basic way of getting CUPS to work, and only when this doesn't work do we head into problem solving issues ?
Where are the sites to find .ppd files
http://www.cups.org/ppd.php
anywhere else ?
Thanks.
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Aitch

Joined: 04 Apr 2007 Posts: 6815 Location: Chatham, Kent, UK
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Posted: Fri 02 Oct 2009, 18:57 Post subject:
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setecio
http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/Database/PPDDocumentation
http://www.openprinting.org/download/PPD/
http://www.linuxprinting.org/kpfeifle/LinuxKongress2002/Tutorial/III.PostScript-and-PPDs/III.PostScript-and-PPDs.html
HTH
Aitch
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Patriot

Joined: 15 Jan 2009 Posts: 734
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Posted: Fri 09 Oct 2009, 07:48 Post subject:
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Hmmm .....
I have inadvertently uploaded CUPS-1.3.11 pet package with a broken installer script. I apologize to the 24 downloaders of the recent cups-1.3.11 package .....
The cause of the broken installer script was due to an extra 'curly bracket' left dangling within the script. This has been fixed, checked, double-checked and installation process re-tested. The correct CUPS-1.3.11 package have been uploaded.
Any inconveniences caused by this is regretted .....
Rgds
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slmeyer
Joined: 11 Nov 2009 Posts: 1
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Posted: Wed 11 Nov 2009, 09:24 Post subject:
Still getting - Permission denied error? Subject description: I am getting the "Unable to open file "/var/spool/cups/d0x-0x" - Permission denied" error? |
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I don't have lp in groups or users list, but I have this error.
Spool ls shows this:
-rw------- 1 root nobody 771 2009-11-11 12:53 c00001
-rw------- 1 root nobody 767 2009-11-11 12:53 c00002
-rw-r----- 1 root nobody 17353 2009-11-11 12:53 d00002-001
drwxrwx--T 2 root nobody 1024 2009-11-11 12:39 tmp
What else can it be
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Patriot

Joined: 15 Jan 2009 Posts: 734
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Posted: Fri 13 Nov 2009, 07:46 Post subject:
Re: Still getting - Permission denied error? Subject description: I am getting the "Unable to open file "/var/spool/cups/d0x-0x" - Permission denied" error? |
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Hmmm .....
slmeyer wrote: | ........
What else can it be  |
I have no idea .....
Details? Puppy version? Cups version? printer model? printer driver?
Rgds
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pemasu

Joined: 08 Jul 2009 Posts: 5484 Location: Finland
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Posted: Mon 30 Nov 2009, 15:01 Post subject:
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foo2xxx_r220909-0.0-i486.pet and HP Laserjet 1020 works fine. Built-in support for "hp-firmware-hotplug" mechanism really works. Much easier than HPLIP, hp-setup from console.
USB Hotplug folder with files and symlinks makes life easy.
With best regards
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Patriot

Joined: 15 Jan 2009 Posts: 734
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Posted: Wed 02 Dec 2009, 11:11 Post subject:
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Hmmm .....
pemasu wrote: | foo2xxx_r220909-0.0-i486.pet and HP Laserjet 1020 works fine. Built-in support for "hp-firmware-hotplug" mechanism really works. ........ |
Thanks for the test report and confirmation. It is much appreciated ...
Rgds
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mikeb

Joined: 23 Nov 2006 Posts: 11101
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Posted: Wed 09 Dec 2009, 17:10 Post subject:
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Ok installed cups 1.3.10 onto puppy 4.12.
Mostly ok but some problems.
It seems cups needs UTF-8 ...... not sure how this is related.
Running the canon ink monitor only works if locale is set to UTF-8 or C.
Whatever the setting I cannot get the printer to show up in the gnome print dialog... firefox and leafpad for example. Other apps are ok...eg epdfview and abiword and anything using lpr.
Any clues on this one..apparently the locale affects samba use.
mike
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Patriot

Joined: 15 Jan 2009 Posts: 734
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Posted: Thu 10 Dec 2009, 22:21 Post subject:
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Hmmm .....
mikeb wrote: | .....
It seems cups needs UTF-8 ...... not sure how this is related.
Running the canon ink monitor only works if locale is set to UTF-8 or C.
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Ok, Mike ... I'll try to duplicate this and see what crops up ...
Rgds
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mikeb

Joined: 23 Nov 2006 Posts: 11101
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Posted: Sat 12 Dec 2009, 16:14 Post subject:
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cheers patriot.
Guess I'm not the only one...
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=371302#371302
I suspect gnomeprint or something small and silly....same cups version and gtk on nimblex works ok and that is set to en_US ..no UTF-8 (Wireless works better on puppy so it's not all one way )
regards
mike
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Patriot

Joined: 15 Jan 2009 Posts: 734
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Posted: Sun 13 Dec 2009, 02:53 Post subject:
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Hmmm .....
I couldn't find anything there, Mike ... I have some screenshots taken ... I've tested on p412 k26217 and p421 k262516 ... both gives same output: printer is available for selection/options ...
The p421 was a pfix=ram with cups-1310 +dbus+ffox+canon-ip4600 driver ... The p412 was my one of my testbed, has cups-1311, gtk+2.12.12, dbus-1.2.12, dbus-glib-0.80, glib.2.20 and many many others I don't remember off-hand ... ffox-3.5.5 was tested, leafpad as-is, geany-0.18 .... Lang=en_US ...
I also tested most gtk apps with printing option and they all open the printer tab the same way ... (I'm unable to see the ink monitor tab since I don't have a real canon printer around ...)
Did I miss something to bork it properly ?
Rgds
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mikeb

Joined: 23 Nov 2006 Posts: 11101
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Posted: Sun 13 Dec 2009, 11:49 Post subject:
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Quote: | Did I miss something to bork it properly |
well I have this knack of confusing my own issues.
As mentioned a very similar setup on nimblex is fine and my puppy 4.12 setup is pretty standard as is apart from using xfce.....
...actually I just realised I included the gtk2 xinput update for firefox crashes and wacom tablet...I bet thats it...hmm there were 3 versions of that....the slaxer one might be the cure.....No good reverting to the original as it was too unstable......I bet the other person has the same update.
Well in a roundabout way I have a lead. Actually I could probably use the nimblex libraries ...pass me the duct tape.
regards
mike
ps this must be it...I tried an early compilation of gtk 2.10 once and guess what, the printing did not work either as the gnome print libraries were incomplete. Whoever builds these needs buying a printer
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mikeb

Joined: 23 Nov 2006 Posts: 11101
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Posted: Sun 13 Dec 2009, 16:02 Post subject:
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Eureka...that was it
I dropped in /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/printbackends/libprintbackend-cups.so from nimblex and the canon appeared in the list...jumped for joy and did a test print. ...I guess it was compiled against the older cups or some config that was particular about versions.
The print monitor still complains so I launch it with
Code: | #!/bin/sh
export LANG=C
cngpijmonip4600 |
and its happy.
regards
mike
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