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Moi123

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Registered: 2009-07-26

Posts: 8

iP2200 under Archlinux.

Hi there.

I switch from Debian to Archlinux since some months, everything's ok, and I love it. But I have a little problem with my printer...
Actually, I don't find any way to install the drivers for the Canon iP2200, I only find RPM or Deb's... I tried to install them with RPM in the AUR repository, but I couldn't.

Any solution ?

Thanks all.

(Excuse my bad(?) English, but I'm a french teen).

Last edited by Moi123 (2009-07-26 14:25:15)

tadzik

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From: &tadzik

Registered: 2009-07-17

Posts: 91

Re: iP2200 under Archlinux.

Hello,
here's my PKGBUILD for this driver, works for me, but it needs a few preparations. First, you need to get to the canon site and download this so-called linux driver for ip2200, then extract it, and there should be another .tgz in here. And there, finally, You'll find cnijfilter-ip2200-2.60-1.i386.rpm which is the real driver. Then, here's my PKGBUILD:

pkgname=cnijfilter-ip2200
pkgver=2.60
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="Canon printer driver for ip2200"
arch=('i686')
license=('custom')
depends=('libcups' 'gtk' 'ghostscript')
makedepends=('rpmextract')
source=(cnijfilter-ip2200-2.60-1.i386.rpm)
md5sums=('3d51fb34f9e7ba3feb9ec5cb388022f7')

build() {
    cd $startdir/pkg/
    rpmextract.sh $startdir/src/cnijfilter-ip2200-2.60-1.i386.rpm
    mkdir -p usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}
    mv usr/share/doc/cnijfilter-common-$pkgver/* usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}
    rm -rf usr/share/doc
    chmod -R a+rX usr/
}

Regards,
Ted

Moi123

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Registered: 2009-07-26

Posts: 8

Re: iP2200 under Archlinux.

Hi.

Many thanks, I can install my printer now, but when I try to print something, in the "status" column of the printer page, I see "Child Process Aborted".
Any idea ?

Thanks.

tadzik

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From: &tadzik

Registered: 2009-07-17

Posts: 91

Re: iP2200 under Archlinux.

As far as I remember you need pstocanonij file in /usr/lib/cups/filter, but I can't find any link to this file on the web. PM me and I'll mail it to You.
Regards,
Ted

Moi123

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Registered: 2009-07-26

Posts: 8

Re: iP2200 under Archlinux.

Hi.

I can't PM you, I think you unable them.

You can mail me at : freeezon*at*gmail dot com

Many Thanks.

Regards.

Last edited by Moi123 (2009-07-27 13:08:37)

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Re: iP2200 under Archlinux.

There's no PM function on the forums Moi123, you can e-mail him. I guess that's what he means .

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Moi123

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Registered: 2009-07-26

Posts: 8

Re: iP2200 under Archlinux.

Hum. Ok.

But I don't have his mail too, so I wait... or maybe I can pick this file on my Debian partition ?

Thanks for all.

Last edited by Moi123 (2009-07-27 13:31:40)

tadzik

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From: &tadzik

Registered: 2009-07-17

Posts: 91

Re: iP2200 under Archlinux.

Sorry, I wasn't expecting the forum not to have PM messages at all. Weird.
Anyway, mail sent, maybe that would help you.

Moi123

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Registered: 2009-07-26

Posts: 8

Re: iP2200 under Archlinux.

Hi !

Thanks for the file. I put it in /usr/lib/cups/filter/ I tried to print something... "Child process aborted".
So I was thinking it's because I don't restart cups, I did it, same issue, so I rebooted my Arch, same issue again.

I don't know what to do know, I tried many docs on the net, I've search for many hours, but nothing.

Any other idea ?

In my cups error_log I have this when I try to print :

E [27/Jul/2009:20:40:27 +0200] [Job 13] Job stopped due to filter errors.
E [27/Jul/2009:20:41:28 +0200] [Job 14] child process aborted
E [27/Jul/2009:20:41:28 +0200] PID 4080 (/usr/lib/cups/filter/pstocanonbj) stopped with status 1!
E [27/Jul/2009:20:41:28 +0200] [Job 14] Job stopped due to filter errors.

Thanks again.

Last edited by Moi123 (2009-07-27 18:49:04)

tadzik

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From: &tadzik

Registered: 2009-07-17

Posts: 91

Re: iP2200 under Archlinux.

Have you tried to lookup the localhost:631 cups page? That's where I usually check for errors. But I haven't really had any problem like this. Maybe check permissions of pstocanonbj, I have 755. Just run `chmod 755 /usr/lib/cups/pstocanonbj` from root and see if that helps.