Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 11:34:35 -0700 From: David Johnson <david@usermode.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: cups problems Message-ID: <200608041134.35807.david@usermode.org>
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Like millions of other users, my printing capabilities came to an abrupt end when I upgraded cups to version 1.2. After weeks of wasting time on the problem, I'm still not printing. I've seen lots of hints and tips on this list and elsewhere, but they just don't work for me. I also get the sense they're not working for lots of other people either. I have a brand new (three months) laserjet printer, and I'll be damned if I have to reboot into Windows to use it! I can "downgrade" to an older cups, but that's not a permanent solution. Symptoms: Nothing happens when I print a file (or print test page). I've waited up to ten minutes. When I cancel the job and start a new one, I then get the following message in the cups admin page: "USB port busy; will retry in 30 seconds...". This message stays even after unplugging printer USB port. A restart of cupsd is necessary to make it go away. OS: FreeBSD-6.1-RELEASE Printer: HP LaserJet 1320, USB Using ppd file downloaded from linuxprinting.org lpstat -t output (without the port busy message): scheduler is running system default destination: laserjet device for laserjet: usb:/dev/ulpt0 laserjet accepting requests since Fri Aug 4 11:20:53 2006 printer laserjet now printing laserjet-36. enabled since Fri Aug 4 11:20:53 2006 laserjet-36 root 18432 Fri Aug 4 11:20:53 2006 Relevant packages: cups-1.2.0 cups-base-1.2.0_2 cups-pstoraster-8.15 (not using hplip, should I?) dmesg: ulpt0: Hewlett-Packard hp LaserJet 1320 series, rev 1.10/1.00, addr 2, iclass 7/1 ulpt0: using bi-directional mode Permissions on devices: crw-rw---- 1 root cups 0, 151 Aug 4 08:43 /dev/ulpt0 crw-rw---- 1 root cups 0, 152 Aug 4 08:43 /dev/unlpt0 All BSD printing executables have been renamed out of the way (lp.org, lpr.org, etc). The old cups.sh script no longer exists. devfs.rules was modified according to some tips found floating about online. I also note that these tips, which seems to be necessary, are not in the handbook or in any pkg_message file. Any help leading to a solution will be greatly appreciated. I would also love to see the cups ports provide sufficient (and correct) documentation to get printing to work. Thank you, -- David Johnson <david@usermode.org>
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