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   <H1>[Mageia-dev] What to use instead of /dev/usb/lp*</H1>
    <B>Florian Hubold</B> 
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    <I>Sat Jul 28 18:28:32 CEST 2012</I>
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<PRE>Am 28.07.2012 15:34, schrieb Christiaan Welvaart:
&gt;<i> On Sat, 28 Jul 2012, Florian Hubold wrote:
</I>&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> Am 25.07.2012 20:05, schrieb Christiaan Welvaart:
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> On Wed, 25 Jul 2012, Jeff Robins wrote:
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;&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;&gt;<i> usblp is blacklisted but you may find using modprobe usblp cures it for
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> you. If it does then comment it in
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-cups-common.conf or remove that file.
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> I'll give that a try.  Is there a better/newer way to access the
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> device?  I'd like to update
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> and fix the program if possible.
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> The blacklisting is not needed anymore with recent cups(?) according to
</I>&gt;&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;&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> so removing the file from the cups package should be the solution.
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>     Christiaan
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> Are you sure we have the exact same cups usb backend as
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> in recent *buntu versions? AFAIK usblp caused some segfaults and
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> crashes, so it was blacklisted by default. But if any program loads
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> it explicitely, it will work.
</I>&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;<i> No, but I plan to update cups to 1.5.4 which has those fixes for usb AFAICT,
</I>&gt;<i> see <A HREF="http://www.cups.org/str.php?L4128">http://www.cups.org/str.php?L4128</A> .
</I>Maintenance of cups is greatly appreciated, thanks ;)

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