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+ <H1>[Mageia-dev] What to use instead of /dev/usb/lp*</H1>
+ <B>Christiaan Welvaart</B>
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+ <I>Sat Jul 28 15:34:24 CEST 2012</I>
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+<PRE>On Sat, 28 Jul 2012, Florian Hubold wrote:
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+&gt;<i> Am 25.07.2012 20:05, schrieb Christiaan Welvaart:
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> On Wed, 25 Jul 2012, Jeff Robins wrote:
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+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 2:11 AM, Claire Robinson &lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">eeeemail at gmail.com</A>&gt; wrote:
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> usblp is blacklisted but you may find using modprobe usblp cures it for
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> you. If it does then comment it in
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-cups-common.conf or remove that file.
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> I'll give that a try. Is there a better/newer way to access the
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> device? I'd like to update
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> and fix the program if possible.
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> The blacklisting is not needed anymore with recent cups(?) according to
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> <A HREF="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/+bug/902970/comments/12">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/+bug/902970/comments/12</A>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> so removing the file from the cups package should be the solution.
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> Christiaan
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> Are you sure we have the exact same cups usb backend as
+</I>&gt;<i> in recent *buntu versions? AFAIK usblp caused some segfaults and
+</I>&gt;<i> crashes, so it was blacklisted by default. But if any program loads
+</I>&gt;<i> it explicitely, it will work.
+</I>
+No, but I plan to update cups to 1.5.4 which has those fixes for usb
+AFAICT, see <A HREF="http://www.cups.org/str.php?L4128">http://www.cups.org/str.php?L4128</A> . My printer is connected
+through my LAN so can't easily test usb access, however.
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+ Christiaan
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