[Mageia-dev] What to use instead of /dev/usb/lp*

Wed Jul 25 11:11:19 CEST 2012

On 25/07/12 09:10, Jeff Robins wrote:
+> Hello,
+> 
+> My wife is trying to use a Xyron Wishblade in Linux with the
+> graphtecprint program (http://vidar.botfu.org/graphtecprint).  It
+> looks like the program accesses /dev/usb/lp* directly, which no longer
+> exists.
+> 
+> Is there a different device that it can open?  I tried /dev/lp* and
+> the actual usb device from /dev/bus/usb, but opening the device
+> failed:
+> 
+> Traceback (most recent call last):
+>   File "./graphtecprint-1.0.1/graphtecprint", line 422, in <module>
+>     dialog.on_rescan_clicked()
+>   File "./graphtecprint-1.0.1/graphtecprint", line 178, in on_rescan_clicked
+>     scanprinters()
+>   File "./graphtecprint-1.0.1/graphtecprint", line 349, in scanprinters
+>     id = getprinterident(dev)
+>   File "./graphtecprint-1.0.1/graphtecprint", line 68, in getprinterident
+>     x = fcntl.ioctl(f.fileno(), 0x84005001, '\x00' * 256)
+> IOError: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted
+> 
+> I haven't modified the permissions of the device yet, but I don't
+> think that's the problem.  I couldn't get usb_printerid to work on any
+> devices either.
+> 
+> Thank you,
+> 
+> Jeff
+
+usblp is blacklisted but you may find using modprobe usblp cures it for
+you. If it does then comment it in
+/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-cups-common.conf or remove that file.
+
+Claire
+