Re: cups broken
On 7/14/22 05:19, Brian wrote:
On Wed 13 Jul 2022 at 21:31:24 -0400, gene heskett wrote:
On 7/13/22 19:27, Brian wrote:
On Wed 13 Jul 2022 at 16:10:56 -0400, gene heskett wrote:
On 7/13/22 15:14, Brian wrote:
On Wed 13 Jul 2022 at 13:21:07 -0400, gene heskett wrote:
[Broken lines mended to give a readable original post.]
Blame that in tbird.
Yet another part of the compting experience tou are unable to
control?
I give up, the driverless printer cups installs automaticaly cannot be
deleted and has taken over from the brother drivers that work,
preventing me from using the printer at all.
So how do I disable the driverless junk? Is that a separate package
that is removable? cups doesn't even offer to disable this
non-working garbage. Thanks for any good clues.
Driverless printing is only possible when avahi-daemon is on the
system. Your solution is obvious.
avahi-daemon 0.8-5 is installed.
Is this the avahi-daemon that, in the past, you have characterised as
unfit to be used on a local network and that didn't deserve any of
your disk space.
True, but that is all, none of its kin is. And I did find out how to defeat
it. But
when I went to look, that file has vanished and its still working.
So what happened that got /etc/dhcpcd.conf removed?
It had a fallback stanza near the bottom that I had edited in
the default eth0 config. That finally got rid of the totally bogus
169.xx.yy.zz
routing address. Now the file is gone, and its still working.
Good.
See the ppd driverless attached to my
previous msg it just now made.
It looks busted to me.
Broken files are best not used. Remove and follow my previos advice.
I have. and cups brings it back automatically on the restart that does.
Probably
20 times I've deleted it. Its back before I can look to see if its gone.
That is cups-browsed doing auto-setup. As far as you are concerned
that is its sole job. It doesn't do anything else for you or the
printing system. Therefore:
apt purge cups-browsed
Will that then allow brothers drivers to work normally?
This printer is normally shared to the rest of my network. So
I can fire up geany on any of the other 5 machines here,
make an adjustment to one of the LinuxCNC configuration files,
and print it right from that machine which might be a minutes
walk away in another building.
Done, all versions of this printer are deleted and stay gone.
Ok, it works, sort of. I did have it setup as two printers before
this last cups update a week or so back, one for color photos,
from thick glossy paper from tray 1 (top tray).
And another copy setup to do fast utility duplexed printing
from tray 2, the bottom tray, which can hold 300 sheets of 22 lb.
But now the "add printer" just re-configures the existing one. "Add"
does not make a new profile. I need both profiles to show up in both
firefox's, print dialog, and in the system dialog if you scroll all the
way down in the FF dialog and select that instead.
How can is this done with this new cups?
Thanks Brian, take care & stay well.
Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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