cupsd init problem [Resolved]

[mrik]

Hi!

I 've just install cups, foomatic and hpijs to use my hp5550... But when I boot I get a lot of modprobe error message !

here is what I did :

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emege cups
emerge foomatic
emerge hpijs 
# I took the right ppd file on the internet I past it a the right place
rc-update add cupsd default #worked fine
reboot # first i just tried /etc/init.d/cupsd start (worked fine) but the printer did'nt woked

when I boot I get :

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Starting CUPSD                                               [ok]
modprobe can't locate module /dev/usbprinter     
modprob can't locate module /dev/lp1
modprob can't locate module /dev/lp2
....

I do have parrellele port and parrallele printer support set in my kernel config and I don't have USB printer support enabled !

What's wrong ?

thx

[GuidoJ]

Frankly, I must admit that I do not know too much about cups, but this looks like you need to edit a config file. Have a look in /etc/conf.d or /etc/cups or something like that. Very likely you can find the config file there. With a little luck it contains some comments on how to change it.

[ThreeFarthingStone]

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Starting CUPSD                                               [ok]
modprobe can't locate module /dev/usbprinter     
modprob can't locate module /dev/lp1
modprob can't locate module /dev/lp2
....

Kernel modules aren't loading. I noticed the 'OK' next to 'Starting CUPSD' which suggests that cups is still booting up. Your printer is probably /dev/lp0, so even if your computer can't find two extra parallel printers (/dev/lp1 and /dev/lp2) or a USB printer (/dev/usb/lp0, I have a USB printer and there is no /dev/usbprinter), CUPS might be fine. Try printing anyway.

Check your kernel config to see if you compiled parallel printer support as module. If so you should add module's name to /etc/modules.autoload, otherwise support is built in to the kernel, module loading will fail but you still have support.

[mrik]

Thx as you told, I put the parrallel port support as a module as well as the parrallel printer support and I added parrellel modules to autoload ans know it's working fine !