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#1 2008-03-14 20:06:19
- ralvy
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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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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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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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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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Re: No local printer anymore
I have the same problem with my printer on the parallel port.
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#6 2008-03-16 14:50:03
- yugrotavele
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- From: Fond du Lac, WI
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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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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.
That did the trick. Thanks.
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#8 2008-03-18 02:54:45
- yugrotavele
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Re: No local printer anymore
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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