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cbrese Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 12 Jul 2002 Posts: 126 Location: San Diego, CA
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Posted: Thu Aug 01, 2002 7:19 pm Post subject: Epson usb printer |
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I'm having trouble getting my Epson 785EPX usb printer to work.
So far I have installed cups and gimp-print-cup and downgraded cups to 1.1.14-r4.
I think I have usbdevfs installed because I can see the printer with usbview. I did notice the the printer shows up in red in usbview.
Before I downgraded all the print jobs were getting cancelled but now when I look at the printer in cups admin it says "Unable to open USB port device file /dev/usb/lp0"
I can't think of anything else to try. Does anyone have any ideas? |
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cbrese Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 12 Jul 2002 Posts: 126 Location: San Diego, CA
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Posted: Thu Aug 01, 2002 7:56 pm Post subject: |
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I kust noticed that a device file name /dev/lp0 exstis so I tried using that port instead, but now the cups admin is saying the port is busy. |
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cbrese Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 12 Jul 2002 Posts: 126 Location: San Diego, CA
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Posted: Thu Aug 01, 2002 9:46 pm Post subject: |
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I got it to work.
I forgot to printer in /etc/modules.autoload.
Once I did a modprobe printer it worked.
Now to get my compact flash card reader to work. |
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cbrese Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 12 Jul 2002 Posts: 126 Location: San Diego, CA
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Posted: Thu Aug 01, 2002 11:08 pm Post subject: |
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Damn, I had it working then I rebooted to see if everything would still work and it dosen't.
I'm back to having all my print jobs cancelled by cups.
Any ideas? I'm realy sick of wasting time with this. |
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cbrese Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 12 Jul 2002 Posts: 126 Location: San Diego, CA
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Posted: Fri Aug 02, 2002 12:18 am Post subject: |
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I hope this is the end of this thread.
I got my printers working agian.
The fix was remerging ghostscript.
My theory is that when I was trying to get printing working the first time I emerged gimp-print and then I did a modprobe printer. It was the modprobe that fixed it, but somehow I think emerging gimp-print broke ghostscript. |
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