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#1 2008-03-14 20:06:19

ralvy
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From: Santa Monica, California
Registered: 2004-12-06
Posts: 275

No local printer anymore

After applying 'pacman -Syu' today I no longer have a local printer on my system. Did I miss some message during my 'pacman -Syu' today about having to change some configuration?

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#2 2008-03-14 23:08:21

carlocci
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From: Padova - Italy
Registered: 2008-02-12
Posts: 368

Re: No local printer anymore

cat /var/log/pacman.log

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#3 2008-03-14 23:27:08

ralvy
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From: Santa Monica, California
Registered: 2004-12-06
Posts: 275

Re: No local printer anymore

Before I go and boot Arch again, if I don't see anything interesting in pacman.log, should I assume that parallel printer support is no longer built in to the Arch kernel and load some module, like lp?

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#4 2008-03-15 01:04:26

ralvy
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From: Santa Monica, California
Registered: 2004-12-06
Posts: 275

Re: No local printer anymore

Booted Arch again and couldn't find anything in pacman.log of interest. I'm at a loss as to how to get printing to my local printer again. When I look at the KDE Control Center Printer module, it shows my local printer options as greyed out. Trying to add a printer via localhost:631 also fails to see a local printer. I'm at a loss here and will boot Slackware until I can figure out what to do about this.

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#5 2008-03-16 08:01:08

narcisse
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Registered: 2006-09-30
Posts: 6

Re: No local printer anymore

I have the same problem with my printer on the parallel port.

See http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=45496

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#6 2008-03-16 14:50:03

yugrotavele
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From: Fond du Lac, WI
Registered: 2007-10-14
Posts: 12

Re: No local printer anymore

I lost my local printer on the parallel port as well. The fix for me was to add lp, parport and parport_pc to the modules list in my rc.conf file. I used the information found at http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/CUPS under parallel port printers.


Don't fix it if it ain't broken.
Don't break it if you can't fix it.

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#7 2008-03-17 19:53:47

ralvy
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From: Santa Monica, California
Registered: 2004-12-06
Posts: 275

Re: No local printer anymore

yugrotavele wrote:

I lost my local printer on the parallel port as well. The fix for me was to add lp, parport and parport_pc to the modules list in my rc.conf file. I used the information found at http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/CUPS under parallel port printers.

That did the trick. Thanks.

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#8 2008-03-18 02:54:45

yugrotavele
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From: Fond du Lac, WI
Registered: 2007-10-14
Posts: 12

Re: No local printer anymore

ralvy wrote:

That did the trick. Thanks.

Not a problem, glad I could help.


Don't fix it if it ain't broken.
Don't break it if you can't fix it.

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