Re: Cupsys, using gutenprint driver instead of CUPS'
Roger Leigh <rleigh@whinlatter.ukfsn.org>:
> T <mlist4suntong@yahoo.com> writes:
> > The feedback I get from cups.general is that the driver that I was using
> > is actually not the gutenprint's but CUPS'. So I re-installed everything
>
> CUPS isn't finding the Gutenprint PPDs at startup. This is because
> they are being moved from /usr/share/cups/model to /usr/share/ppd.
> Gutenprint is still using the old location, and you can fix it by
> symlinking e.g. /usr/share/ppd/gutenprint-transitional ->
> /usr/share/cups/model/gutenprint.
>
> The package in unstable now puts the PPDs in the new location, so just
> grabbing the cupsys-driver-gutenprint from unstable will fix your
> problem.
That latter suggestion (though NOT from unstable) fixed my problem too.
Thanks. I'm running Sarge. Epson Stylus Photo 900 @ 7?? dpi color..
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