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

Sat Jul 28 15:34:24 CEST 2012

On Sat, 28 Jul 2012, Florian Hubold wrote:
+
+> Am 25.07.2012 20:05, schrieb Christiaan Welvaart:
+>> On Wed, 25 Jul 2012, Jeff Robins wrote:
+>>
+>>> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 2:11 AM, Claire Robinson <eeeemail at gmail.com> wrote:
+>>>> 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.
+>>>>
+>>> I'll give that a try.  Is there a better/newer way to access the
+>>> device?  I'd like to update
+>>> and fix the program if possible.
+>>
+>> The blacklisting is not needed anymore with recent cups(?) according to
+>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/+bug/902970/comments/12
+>>
+>> so removing the file from the cups package should be the solution.
+>>
+>>
+>>     Christiaan
+>>
+> Are you sure we have the exact same cups usb backend as
+> in recent *buntu versions? AFAIK usblp caused some segfaults and
+> crashes, so it was blacklisted by default. But if any program loads
+> it explicitely, it will work.
+
+No, but I plan to update cups to 1.5.4 which has those fixes for usb 
+AFAICT, see http://www.cups.org/str.php?L4128 . My printer is connected 
+through my LAN so can't easily test usb access, however.
+
+     Christiaan
+