http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=95405&p=545974#p545974 I have done the above on a couple of mint distros, debianmint included and it enables the parallel port option in cups. Ian.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to cups in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/492876 Title: Parallel Printer - a) difficult to configure, b) didn't work until sudo chmod 755 /usr/lib/cups/backend Status in “cups” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Binary package hint: cups a) The System/Administration/Printing GUI doesn't suggest how to configure a really old parallel port printer such as my Canon BJ-10SX. I eventually found that it was Other then parallel:/dev/lp0, then Canon BJ-10e. b) Then it still didn't work until it occurred to me to check the permissions of the file in the error report (/usr/lib/cups/backend failed). They were 700 and changing to 755 seems to have fixed it. ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 Date: Sat Dec 5 15:35:24 2009 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10 Lpstat: device for Canon-BJ-10e: parallel:/dev/lp0 device for PDF: cups-pdf:/ MachineType: Dell Computer Corporation Latitude D600 Package: cups 1.4.1-5ubuntu2.1 Papersize: a4 PccardctlIdent: Socket 0: no product info available Socket 1: product info: "O2Micro", "SmartCardBus Reader", "V1.0", "" manfid: 0xffff, 0x0001 PccardctlStatus: Socket 0: no card Socket 1: 5.0V 16-bit PC Card Subdevice 0 (function 0) [unbound] PpdFiles: Canon-BJ-10e: Canon BJ-10e Foomatic/bj10e (recommended) PDF: Generic CUPS-PDF Printer ProcCmdLine: root=UUID=4026f1f1-3328-4f27-91d2-6974ebad8e67 ro quiet splash ProcEnviron: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic SourcePackage: cups Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686 XsessionErrors: (gnome-settings-daemon:1695): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1796): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed (nautilus:1786): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed dmi.bios.date: 06/29/2005 dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Computer Corporation dmi.bios.version: A16 dmi.board.vendor: Dell Computer Corporation dmi.chassis.type: 8 dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Computer Corporation dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellComputerCorporation:bvrA16:bd06/29/2005:svnDellComputerCorporation:pnLatitudeD600:pvr:rvnDellComputerCorporation:rn:rvr:cvnDellComputerCorporation:ct8:cvr: dmi.product.name: Latitude D600 dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Computer Corporation To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/+bug/492876/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
