Hello.
I have a Samsung CLP300 colour laser printer.
When I connected it to my laptop, in each of both Ubuntu 8.04 and
Debian 5, which was installed as a clean install, the printer was
automatically installed and set up (I didn't have to do anything - it
just appeared as an installed printer, ready to use).
When I connected the printer to this desktop computer, the same happened
with the Ubuntu 8.04 installation.
When the printer was connected to this desktop and the desktop was
running Debian 4, the printer (apparently) could not be installed.
So (and, for other reasons), I yesterday upgraded the Debian
installation on this computer, to Debian 5, following the Release Notes
instructions. The only problem of which I was aware, in the upgrade,
that was encountered, was the loss of the graphics adaptor driver, and
thence XWindows, which was subsequently, easily (after I was advised of
the solution), ovbercome.
But, I cannot install the printer driver on this Debian 5 installation.
The printer was not automatically installed and set up, ready to go, as
it was with the clean installation of Debian 5 on the laptop.
In trying to manually install the printer, using the foomatic-gui
application, that application detects the printer, and, goes through
the (apparent) process of installing the printer, but, at the end of
that process, when it should have successfully completed, the printer is
not added as an installed printer. I have tried adding the printer, via
the foomatic-gui application, using both the splix and the foo2qpdl
driver options, and, until the final screen appears, that lists the
installed printers, shows that the printer is not installed, it all
seems to be going okay.
I have also tried to add the printer to the installed printers, using
the System -> Administration -> Printing -> Add Printer facility, but,
whilst that detects the printer, the printer driver is not listed as an
available printer driver, to select.
Why is it, that a clean install of Debian 5, automatically installs and
sets up the printer, ready for use, like Ubuntu 8.04, but, a Debian 5
installation that is done as an upgrade from Debian 4, still disallows
the printer from being installed.
Can this be overcome?
At present, I have to revert to doing what I was doing before upgrading
the Debian installtion on the desktop, to Debian 5; if I want to print,
using the CLP-300, I have to reboot into Ubuntu 8.04, as the Debian
installation again does not allow the use of the printer.
It is frustrationg, that a Debian 5 installation, that is done by
upgrading from Debian 4, is so different to a Debian 5 installation that
is done as a clean install, meaning that a Debian 5 installation that is
done as an upgrade from Debian 4, is more of a combination of Debian 4
and 5 (like a system that is a combination of stable, testing and
unstable), than a Debian 5 system, and is thus, not truly Debian 5.
I had intended to add other new printers, including a Samsung
multi-funtion thingy, to my desktop computer, but it appears that a
Debian 5 installation that is an upgrade from Debian 4, does not work
for adding printers, anywhere as well as a Debian 5 installation that is
done as a clean install, so making it apparently, too much trouble.
--
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
..............
"So once you do know what the question actually is,
you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
A Trilogy In Four Parts",
written by Douglas Adams,
published by Pan Books, 1992
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