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Posted: Thu 01 Apr 2010, 18:19
by rcrsn51
I've installed CUPS, ghostscript, the libtif package, and foomatic-rip (which is required by my driver).
I take it that all of these items are missing from Browserlinux?
The various parts of the CUPS printing chain need to be installed correctly as a group or the process fails. I would suggest that you get a standard Puppy like 4.3.1 and upgrade CUPS from
here.
Once you have your printer working in that environment, you can go back to Browserlinux and try again.
v. large /var/cache/cups/ppds.dat
Posted: Mon 26 Apr 2010, 08:21
by petr7
Hi all,
I've tried following the instructions
v1.3.11 of CUPS on puppy 4.3 and I still can't add a local printer.
the /var/cache/cups/ppds.dat file grows to 142.4 Meg - i can add the HP LaserJet, but it won't print the test page. Try to change the driver to one of the other two that match the printer and I get 100% cpu on the cups daemon.
Without a printer for a month now
Petr
Posted: Mon 26 Apr 2010, 12:48
by rcrsn51
This sounds like some kind of corruption. I would do a fresh frugal install of Puppy 4.3.1 and following the instructions
here.
Posted: Mon 26 Apr 2010, 13:16
by petr7
I guess fresh install means more than replacing the initrd, pup431 and vmlinuz files as any problems will just get copied over in my pupsave file.
Thanks for the guidance though - far better to know I need to start again rather than trying to fix it.
Petr
Posted: Mon 26 Apr 2010, 13:21
by rcrsn51
If you are already using a frugal install, boot off the Live CD using the "puppy pfix=ram" argument.
Rename your current pupsave file to something else and start a new one.
Do the printer upgrades into the new pupsave file.
Posted: Mon 26 Apr 2010, 13:48
by pemasu
petr7: You didnt mention what kind of HP Laserjet you have. My HP Laserjet 1020 works fine with most CUPS versions after foo2xxx_r220909-0.0-i486.pet installation. It has drivers for certain HP Laserjet versions. It also creates hotplugin folder which is needed at least for my printer. Firmware must be feeded to HP Laserjet 1020 printer with every printing and this package creates that.
Check here supported printers with this driver package:
http://foo2zjs.rkkda.com/
Posted: Tue 27 Apr 2010, 11:29
by petr7
Printer is now working fine... now lets see what happens when I copy over my home directory ....
BTW I had, at one point, a pdf writer on this machine. CUPS detects it but I don't see how to choose a "make" for it, and I thought I had to download a pet to get it last time.
Petr
Posted: Tue 27 Apr 2010, 12:24
by rcrsn51
CUPS 1.3.11 has a little trouble setting up the old Puppy PDF-Writer device. Initially, just pick any Generic PCL driver. Then go to Modify Printer. Now pick Raw and Raw Queue as the make and model.
For some reason, CUPS won't print a test page to this device. But I tried it with several applications and it worked OK.
Posted: Sat 08 May 2010, 07:22
by charlie6
Hi rcrsn51,
many thanks for all your job !
SOLVED
[edited] I went just to solve this ! it is trivial:
- puppy has to be rebooted with pixma (or any usb device, I presume) already switched ON -
Wanting to install a Canon pixma MP160 on...Turbopup-Xtreme-v.1.0 (=puppy 4.20 derivative !):
I first apply your advice installing cups-1.3.9 + cupsd.conf.zip...OK!
Now I get a try installing my USB Canon Pixma MP160 Printer from CUPS...but cannot find the 'usb' among the list of communication devices (see snapshot attached).
I ran
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# lpinfo -v
network socket
network beh
network http
network ipp
network lpd
direct parallel:/dev/lp0
file pdf-writer:/dev/null
direct scsi
serial serial:/dev/ttyS0?baud=115200
serial serial:/dev/ttyS1?baud=115200
network smb
#
These Pixma is already running as scanner on sane using the usb port...
So, what to do to get the usb device identified on cups ?
Many thanks for any answer
cheers, Charlie
[edited] after reboot:
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# lpinfo -v
network socket
network beh
direct usb://Canon/MP160 <<<<< there it is !
network http
network ipp
network lpd
direct parallel:/dev/lp0
file pdf-writer:/dev/null
direct scsi
serial serial:/dev/ttyS0?baud=115200
serial serial:/dev/ttyS1?baud=115200
network smb
#
Posted: Tue 12 Oct 2010, 13:21
by edoc
Di we need a special version of fooxxx for HP printers under Fatdog64?
Posted: Wed 29 Dec 2010, 23:14
by Tachikoma
I am new so let me know if my post should go somewhere else.
I just updated cups to the latest version on my puppeee install and I have a new problem. When I try to print, it says:
"Unable to open file "/var/spool/cups/d00002-001" - Permission denied"
I tried changing the permissions as it was suggested in another thread, but I still get the same error. I also confirmed it was installed as root.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
Posted: Wed 29 Dec 2010, 23:25
by edoc
You want to be sure that Jemimah sees this so I'd post in a Puppeee or Fluppy 010 thread.
Posted: Wed 29 Dec 2010, 23:59
by Tachikoma
edoc wrote:You want to be sure that Jemimah sees this so I'd post in a Puppeee or Fluppy 010 thread.
I just posted in the puppeee forum where Jemimah is active, so we'll see.
Thanks.
Posted: Fri 10 Jun 2011, 08:01
by HiDeHo
do these drivers work with the later puplets suck and lupu or wary.
they work in 431 i know that
edit i have started a post here [
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=68740
Posted: Fri 10 Jun 2011, 09:09
by rcrsn51
HiDeHo wrote:do these drivers work with the later puplets suck and lupu or wary.
Have you read the sticky post at the start of the Printers section?
It's titled: How to Install Your Printer/Scanner in Lupu/Quirky/Wary.
Posted: Sat 18 Jun 2011, 06:06
by HiDeHo
rcrsn51 wrote:HiDeHo wrote:do these drivers work with the later puplets suck and lupu or wary.
Have you read the sticky post at the start of the Printers section?
It's titled: How to Install Your Printer/Scanner in Lupu/Quirky/Wary.
where do you mean i dont know where that is i have looked around in cups and its not there.
Posted: Sat 18 Jun 2011, 10:47
by rcrsn51
HiDeHo wrote:rcrsn51 wrote:HiDeHo wrote:do these drivers work with the later puplets suck and lupu or wary.
Have you read the sticky post at the start of the Printers section?
It's titled: How to Install Your Printer/Scanner in Lupu/Quirky/Wary.
where do you mean i dont know where that is i have looked around in cups and its not there.
It's the thread directly above this one. You posted to it yesterday.
Posted: Sat 18 Jun 2011, 11:00
by Aitch
HiDeHo wrote:where do you mean i dont know where that is i have looked around in cups and its not there.
Could it be here....top of the list?
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/index.php?f=27
Gosh that was hard, eh?
Aitch
Posted: Sun 19 Jun 2011, 11:32
by HiDeHo
Aitch wrote:HiDeHo wrote:where do you mean i dont know where that is i have looked around in cups and its not there.
Could it be here....top of the list?
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/index.php?f=27
Gosh that was hard, eh?
Aitch
well either i looked up something cpmpleatly different. but from that post about quirky, wary adn lupu i dont get where the drivers are situated. but i will ask in that forum ok. as that is the revelent place for it to go, not here now.
but i noticed that when i installed the old splix driver for 431 days it actually worked so problem solved.
Posted: Fri 11 May 2012, 19:35
by Karl Godt
I just want shortly say THANK YOU, PATRIOT !
I tried to compile cups myself, since 1.1.23 was working for me but it had been annoying that the pages did not refresh automatically .
Half part seems to not to like libusb-1.0.x and refused to present a printer even with lpinfo -v OR lpstrat -a|-v command .
Have collected the original 1.1.23 and made a pet with all the ghostscript, installed that and printed the test page .
After a while i ran "/etc/init.d/cups stop", installed your pkg, "/etc/init.d/cups start",
AND : IT PRINTED THE TEST PAGE .
I am confident,that it will work further on .
One of my compile had been 1.3.8 and i will have to check the files for everything i can check .
Small thingy : root passwd asked but that's no real problem, think will be fixed in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf
and the installscript seems to have needed a small "cd /" :
rm: cannot remove `./root/.TestGtkEmbed/TestGtkEmbed/Cache/*': No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove `./usr/share/doc/cups': No such file or directory
Couldn't watch ./root/.packages/cups-1.3.9-i486.tar.gz: No such file or directory