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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:
><i> Am 25.07.2012 20:05, schrieb Christiaan Welvaart:
</I>>><i> On Wed, 25 Jul 2012, Jeff Robins wrote:
</I>>><i>
</I>>>><i> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 2:11 AM, Claire Robinson <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">eeeemail at gmail.com</A>> wrote:
</I>>>>><i> usblp is blacklisted but you may find using modprobe usblp cures it for
</I>>>>><i> you. If it does then comment it in
</I>>>>><i> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-cups-common.conf or remove that file.
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</I>>>><i> I'll give that a try. Is there a better/newer way to access the
</I>>>><i> device? I'd like to update
</I>>>><i> and fix the program if possible.
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</I>>><i> The blacklisting is not needed anymore with recent cups(?) according to
</I>>><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>
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</I>>><i> so removing the file from the cups package should be the solution.
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</I>>><i> Christiaan
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</I>><i> Are you sure we have the exact same cups usb backend as
</I>><i> in recent *buntu versions? AFAIK usblp caused some segfaults and
</I>><i> crashes, so it was blacklisted by default. But if any program loads
</I>><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.
Christiaan
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