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mikefot
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 Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2019 3:51 pm Post subject: problem getting brlaser driver working with DCP 7030 printer |
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Dear All,
I am running gentoo stable on an amd64 kaveri box.
I am using a Brother DCP 7030 printer.
I have cups installed plus the package which apparently works with this printer.
I used the page on firefox to set the printer up.
Libreoffice now thinks I am using the Brother DCP 7030 printer as a generic printer.
If you try printing a one page file of text it empties the printer of paper completely leaving all the pages blank at present.
Suggestions on how to do a bit better here would be appreciated.
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Michael Fothergill |
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charles17
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| Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2019 4:13 pm Post subject: |
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mikefot
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| Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2019 4:23 pm Post subject: |
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Many thanks for your reply.
I have looked through it while doing this.
Do you think I need the brother overlay in this case?
I think I don't.
Comments appreciated.
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MF |
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charles17
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mikefot
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| Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2019 8:09 pm Post subject: |
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Many thanks for your response.
I can get the add printer command to work OK - it sees the brother 7030 printer as a local printer and I can
create the printer daemon or whatever it is called. But when I do it the list of printer types does NOT
include Brother and it is created as a generic printer.
Something is not right. I tried printing with it using libreoffice and nothing happens now.
I tried some commands:
| Code: | storm /home/mikef # gpasswd -a mikef lp
Adding user mikef to group lp
storm /home/mikef # gpasswd -a mikef lpadmin
Adding user mikef to group lpadmin
storm /home/mikef # lpinfo -v
bash: lpinfo: command not found
storm /home/mikef # lpstat -a
bash: lpstat: command not found
storm /home/mikef # dmesg | grep -i print
[ 0.217241] printk: console [tty0] enabled
[ 2.749645] printk: console [netcon0] enabled
[ 3.266256] usblp 4-4:1.0: usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 2 if 0 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x04F9 pid 0x01EA
[ 166.073492] usblp 4-4:1.0: usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 2 if 0 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x04F9 pid 0x01EA
storm /home/mikef # |
lsusb is not recognised.
cups has been started automatically on logging in.
I am using openrc not systemd.
Suggestions welcome.
Regards
MF
PS Here is some cups error log output:
| Code: | storm /home/mikef # tail /var/log/cups/error_log
W [27/Oct/2019:18:40:56 +0000] CreateDevice failed: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown:The name org.freedesktop.ColorManager was not provided by any .service files
W [28/Oct/2019:16:09:37 +0000] CreateProfile failed: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown:The name org.freedesktop.ColorManager was not provided by any .service files
W [28/Oct/2019:16:09:37 +0000] CreateProfile failed: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown:The name org.freedesktop.ColorManager was not provided by any .service files
W [28/Oct/2019:16:09:37 +0000] CreateDevice failed: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown:The name org.freedesktop.ColorManager was not provided by any .service files
W [28/Oct/2019:18:58:38 +0000] CreateProfile failed: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown:The name org.freedesktop.ColorManager was not provided by any .service files
W [28/Oct/2019:18:58:38 +0000] CreateProfile failed: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown:The name org.freedesktop.ColorManager was not provided by any .service files
W [28/Oct/2019:18:58:38 +0000] CreateDevice failed: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown:The name org.freedesktop.ColorManager was not provided by any .service files
E [28/Oct/2019:19:08:31 +0000] [Job 18] Unable to send data to printer.
E [28/Oct/2019:19:09:25 +0000] [cups-deviced] PID 4250 (cups-brf) stopped with status 13!
E [28/Oct/2019:20:48:57 +0000] [cups-deviced] PID 4115 (cups-brf) stopped with status 13!
storm /home/mikef # |
PPS I installed and ran it and it said "no printers found" |
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Jaglover
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| Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2019 8:55 pm Post subject: |
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Nobody mentioned it yet, I seem to remember there is some conflict between kernel USB print driver and CUPS. You sure your kernel is configured correctly? I suggest using networked printers whenever possible, so much easier to set up.
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mikefot
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| Posted: Thu Oct 31, 2019 4:56 pm Post subject: |
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Many thanks for your reply and the helpful advice.
I ran and looked at the printer kernel settings but they seemed OK to me.
Maybe I am wrong here.
The USB printer function is turned on in the kernel I think. We would not need the parallel printer option turned on I would have thought.
The kernel config file is here:
Your paste can be seen here: http://dpaste.com/22Q5092
Suggestions on appropriate changes are welcome.
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MF |
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charles17
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| Posted: Thu Oct 31, 2019 10:11 pm Post subject: |
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| mikefot wrote: | Many thanks for your reply and the helpful advice.
I ran and looked at the printer kernel settings but they seemed OK to me.
Maybe I am wrong here.
The USB printer function is turned on in the kernel I think. We would not need the parallel printer option turned on I would have thought. |
Why don't you turn of CONFIG_USB_PRINTER and have dev-libs/libusb installed? |
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mikefot
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| Posted: Sun Nov 03, 2019 10:18 am Post subject: |
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Many thanks for the help again.
I ran make menuconfig and turned off the usb printer flag:
see here:
http://dpaste.com/0SE38YP
I am now running kernel 5.3.7.
I also installed .
I tried setting up the printer daemon using the option with cups.
It doesn't seem to see the Brother printer at all.
Cups is definitely running. I reinstalled it to see if that would help but it doesn't.
Suggestions welcome.
Regards
MF
PS I have now set up the Brother printer daemon with the generic printer postscript setting.
In libreoffice it prints a one page document as about 20 blank pages and stops at that point.
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mikefot
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| Posted: Sun Nov 03, 2019 11:26 am Post subject: |
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Many thanks again.
I downloaded the rpm files for the LPR and cupswrapper files from Brother for the DCP-7030 machine.
I tried installing the LPR driver:
| Code: | storm /home/mikef/Downloads # rpm -i --nodeps brdcp7030lpr-2.0.2-1.i386.rpm
which: no pstops in (/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin)
storm /home/mikef/Downloads # |
Is that the sort of error message that means I need to run the replace packahes command to fix problems here?
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MF |
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mikefot
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| Posted: Sun Nov 03, 2019 11:39 am Post subject: |
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Many thanks for your reply again.
I also tried installing the cupswrapper rpm:
| Code: | storm /home/mikef/Downloads # rpm -i --nodeps cupswrapperDCP7030-2.0.2-1.i386.rpm
cp: '/usr/lib/cups/filter/brlpdwrapperDCP7030' and '/usr/lib64/cups/filter/brlpdwrapperDCP7030' are the same file
storm /home/mikef/Downloads # /usr/local/Brother/cupswrapper/cupswrapperDCP7030-2.0.2: line 531: lpinfo: command not found
/usr/local/Brother/cupswrapper/cupswrapperDCP7030-2.0.2: line 533: lpinfo: command not found
/usr/local/Brother/cupswrapper/cupswrapperDCP7030-2.0.2: line 539: lpadmin: command not found
storm /home/mikef/Downloads # |
The output of lsusb is here:
Your paste can be seen here: http://dpaste.com/068C0JM
and
https://paste.debian.net/1113366/
I will try to figure out if I have this permissions problem and fix it.
Comments appreciated.
Regards
MF |
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charles17
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| Posted: Sun Nov 03, 2019 11:47 am Post subject: |
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Are you really having cups with the USB USE flag?
Could you please detach and re-attach the printer? And then run dmesg?
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mikefot
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| Posted: Sun Nov 03, 2019 11:53 am Post subject: |
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Yes. I added the usb flag to my make.conf file:
| Code: | storm /etc/portage # wgetpaste /etc/portage/make.conf
Your paste can be seen here: |
http://dpaste.com/2DMKH6J
| Code: | | storm /etc/portage # |
I will remove the usb flag and rerun emerge --update --newuse -deep @world or --changeduse or something similar
Suggestions welcome.
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charles17
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| Posted: Sun Nov 03, 2019 11:55 am Post subject: |
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| mikefot wrote: | | I will remove the usb flag and rerun emerge --update --newuse -deep @world or --changeduse or something similar |
net-print/cups should have USB enabled. |
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mikefot
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| Posted: Sun Nov 03, 2019 11:57 am Post subject: |
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So I should keep the flag turned on then after all...........
Cheers
MF
PS I am running | Code: | | emerge --update --newuse --deep @world |
There are 93 packages to be emerged. I think the usb bit is already working in what I emerged previously but I will clobber away
at it compile rust and gcc and everything in there and see if it helps.
PPS
Debian 10 runs the printer perfectly. So there will be a way to make it work in Gentoo.
PPPS
I have finished the emerge world updates. This has not cured the printing problem.
The printer is not recognised at present. So I have actually gone backwards with it.
Maybe installing thewas actually a bad idea.....
Who knows.
Here is the dmesg output with the printer turned off
http://dpaste.com/028Y1NA
Here is the dmesg output again with the printer turned on
http://dpaste.com/372QEKQ
Cheers
MF |
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