On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 14:49 -0700, situert wrote:
> My system is Debian 4.0 ("Etch"). I have a HP laserjet
> printer which I would like to use. When I try to add it,
> however, I cannot because gnome-cups-add fails with the
> following error:
>
> ** (gnome-cups-add:9363): WARNING **: IPP request failed with status 1024
>
> This happens because the driver I select has a slash
> character in its name. (The name of the driver is
> "HP LaserJet Series PCL 4/5".) I found this out by
> searching on the Internet. Here's a relevant bug
> report:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-cups-manager/+bug/32085
>
> When I edit /usr/share/ppd/cups-included/HP/laserjet.ppd
> and remove the slash characters from the lines 38, 39 and 40,
> I am then able to add my printer as a laserjet printer.
>
> This bug should be fixed in more recent versions of
> gnome-cups-add. I don't know if backporting the fix
> would be viable.This bug seems to be more specific, https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-cups-manager/+bug/39976 This bug is indeed fixed in the Ubuntu package, they seem to have a whole lot of patches to gnome-cups-manager. Are there any plans to integrate these, or do we wait for a new upstream release? -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22
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