David Baron <d_baron@012.net.il> writes: > On Monday 17 July 2006 18:50, Arthur Marsh wrote: >> > I went into http://localhost:631/ and "started" the printer. >> > >> > I never had to do this before so how to I make this happen automatically? >> >> If you put >> >> lp >> >> in /etc/modules >> >> and reboot, is /dev/lp0 created with the correct permissions? > > My /dev is static. I am not using udev. I have set the permissions to > crw.rw.... Somehow, it had been changed to NO rw at all. This doesn't help if the module isn't loaded. Make sure it shows up in the lsmod output, along with parport. >> If so, does CUPS then start-up and make the printer available without >> manual intervention? > >> I had to add lp to /etc/modules sometime after a 2.6.16.x upgrade. > I will add it to /set/modules and see. I did not have this problem > with 2.6.16 kernels but then again, I do not do all that much > printing so maybe I did. Cups writes printer.conf with the default > printer (with the data switch setting the parallel line to it) as > "idle" and the second printer (not live) to "stopped". So why did I > need to manually "start" the supposedly "idle" printer? Run /usr/sbin/tunelp -s /dev/lp0 and see what it says. It should ideally say online/ready. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `- GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please sign and encrypt your mail.
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