On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 01:40:50AM +0800, Uwe Heinz Rudi Dippel wrote: > Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: > > >> After upgrading to Etch, now printing (DeskJet 840C) is gone. > >> Reason: > >> % ls -l /dev/lp* > >> ls: /dev/lp*: No such file or directory > > > > I had something similar with my DeskJet 670C in Etch. > > It appeared that /dev/lp0 had not been recognized for some reason, > > therefore CUPS tried to print to /dev/other, which did not exist. > > > > I could not be corrected in the CUPS printer administration, but I could > > use the KDE printer setup (K > System > Printers) to manually set the > > output device to /dev/lp0, which solved it. > > It is so sad. Theoretically, Debian is my favourite distro, and I wonder why > practically, it is at times so 'could-not-care-less'. :( > I do bother and file bug reports. Only to see them being closed with a > workaround or simply unattended to. > This is a server, no GUI, worked with Sarge. Why should it not continue working with Etch ? Yes, it does, with 'modprobe lp'. The maintainer of udev suggested CUPS, then to 'blame the maintainer of lpr'. Neither is a solution, but bug report 'closed'.
why should the udev developer fix a bug in lpr? it is not up to udev, as I understand it, to figure out which modules to insert, just to make sure the device nodes get created properly when it does happen. The need for an lp module to be inserted should fall to the package that handles the parallel printer support. .02 A
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