Bug#467177: With newer versions the Epson Stylus Photo 915 dosn't work anymore

["Bernard Gray" <bernard.gray@gmail.com>]

>  I emailed the gimp-print-devel list with some updated info (included
>  testing on an Epson Stylus Photo RX590 as well) - but I think they are
>  waiting on a response from you?
>  http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=c058e98e0803242056m1775bbc2jd0249198c07d8141%40mail.gmail.com&forum_name=gimp-print-devel
>
>  Also, I'll prepare a debug level log for you at some stage today or
>  tomorrow and post it. I didn't have any luck finding anything
>  pertinent when I looked.
>
>  Regards,
>  Bernie
>

Ok, I found (and fixed) my issue:
In the interest of presenting a clean log, I booted a sidux 2008-01
pre2 livecd to test from.
There still seems to be a bug in the kde control center when adding
the printer (that's for another report), but adding it from the cups
web admin interface from a fresh livecd boot worked a treat (much to
my surprise).
The printer now appears twice in the list of possible devices:
EPSON Stylus Photo RX590 USB #1 (EPSON Stylus Photo RX590)
...
Gutenprint USB Printer #1 (EPSON USB2.0 MFP(Hi-Speed))

After choosing the first entry, the correct driver is automagically
chosen in the next step of the setup dialog, and after completing
setup, the printer works flawlessly :)

With the broken cupsd.conf, only one entry appears in the cups admin
interface "selectable devices" list:
Gutenprint USB Printer #1 (EPSON USB2.0 MFP(Hi-Speed))

In the KDE control center, the new cupsd.conf also has a selectable
"Local Printer" option which was greyed out with the broken
cupsd.conf.

Sure enough, I copy the /etc/cups/cupsd.conf off the livecd boot, onto
my hd install and I can install the printer and it works! So, it seems
user error is the cuprit here, a dist-upgrade without diff-ing a major
cupsd.conf format change (in my case at least).

I'm not sure of the easiest way to rebuild the cupsd.conf file via
dpkg/apt (I can't find a sample floating round in /use/share/*), so
I'll just post the working cupsd.conf  -

/etc/cups/cupsd.conf
===========================================================

#
#
#   Sample configuration file for the Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS)
#   scheduler.  See "man cupsd.conf" for a complete description of this
#   file.
#

# Log general information in error_log - change "info" to "debug" for
# troubleshooting...
LogLevel warning

# Administrator user group...
SystemGroup lpadmin


# Only listen for connections from the local machine.
Listen localhost:631
Listen /var/run/cups/cups.sock

# Show shared printers on the local network.
Browsing On
BrowseOrder allow,deny
BrowseAllow all

# Default authentication type, when authentication is required...
DefaultAuthType Basic

# Restrict access to the server...
<Location />
  Order allow,deny
</Location>

# Restrict access to the admin pages...
<Location /admin>
  Order allow,deny
</Location>

# Restrict access to configuration files...
<Location /admin/conf>
  AuthType Default
  Require user @SYSTEM
  Order allow,deny
</Location>

# Set the default printer/job policies...
<Policy default>
  # Job-related operations must be done by the owner or an administrator...
  <Limit Send-Document Send-URI Hold-Job Release-Job Restart-Job
Purge-Jobs Set-Job-Attributes Create-Job-Subscription
Renew-Subscription Cancel-Subscription Get-Notifications Reprocess-Job
Cancel-Current-Job Suspend-Current-Job Resume-Job CUPS-Move-Job>
    Require user @OWNER @SYSTEM
    Order deny,allow
  </Limit>

  # All administration operations require an administrator to authenticate...
  <Limit CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer CUPS-Delete-Printer
CUPS-Add-Modify-Class CUPS-Delete-Class CUPS-Set-Default>
    AuthType Default
    Require user @SYSTEM
    Order deny,allow
  </Limit>

  # All printer operations require a printer operator to authenticate...
  <Limit Pause-Printer Resume-Printer Enable-Printer Disable-Printer
Pause-Printer-After-Current-Job Hold-New-Jobs Release-Held-New-Jobs
Deactivate-Printer Activate-Printer Restart-Printer Shutdown-Printer
Startup-Printer Promote-Job Schedule-Job-After CUPS-Accept-Jobs
CUPS-Reject-Jobs>
    AuthType Default
    Require user @SYSTEM
    Order deny,allow
  </Limit>

  # Only the owner or an administrator can cancel or authenticate a job...
  <Limit Cancel-Job CUPS-Authenticate-Job>
    Require user @OWNER @SYSTEM
    Order deny,allow
  </Limit>

  <Limit All>
    Order deny,allow
  </Limit>
</Policy>

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