Cups

[Richard England]

Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 18:33 -0700, Richard England wrote:
>   
>> Karl Larsen wrote:
>>     
>>> Richard England wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Karl Larsen wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>>     I have learned a lot today and it is all bad. Let us assume the 
>>>>> udev update I got is what ruined my printing. The obvious thing to 
>>>>> do is delete the update. But you can not do that.
>>>>>
>>>>>     The update becomes part of the whole file for udev. This you 
>>>>> can't just remove because it is used by the whole computer!
>>>>>
>>>>>     So I think I need to get out my DVD and look for the old udev 
>>>>> rpm and force it to replace the updated one.
>>>>>
>>>>>     If that doesn't work do the same thing to the others. A whole 
>>>>> lot of work. Maybe easier to just reload f7?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>> I have an HP Deskjet 722C connected to an F7 machine through the 
>>>> parallel port and I'm using the most recent udev update. I would not 
>>>> suspect udev yet.
>>>>
>>>>  I Have  hpijs-1.7.4a-4.fc7 and hplip-1.7.4a-4.fc7  installed so that 
>>>> may help in identifying the type of printer (I'm a neophyte with 
>>>> printers) and the printer shows up in the CUPS web interface with a 
>>>> URI of   hp:/par/DESKJET_720c?device=/dev/parport0
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>     If you have the updated cups files installed you will never get 
>>> that HP working. Because the new Cups will not accept any printer 
>>> using the parallel port.
>>>
>>>       
>> Wrong.  It's working, now.
>>
>> That was the point of my mail.  
>>
>> You CAN use a parallel port printer. Even one that is not well 
>> supported.  The "New CUPS" has no problem with the parallel port.
>>
>> ~~R
>>
>>
>>     
> I have Karl's questiom. I can not find a parallel port option in the
> latest cups. Where did you find it? Or did you have yout printer
> configured before the cups update?
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>   


It very well be that I inherited the setting from a previous udev 
configured CUPS configuration session.  I know it was done manually on a 
fresh F7 install but if udev changed to remove the parallel port then 
that's probably why I have it but others can't generate a new one.  
Sounds like a new udev is already available, though.

~~R