On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 15:46:46 -0600 Duncan Patton a Campbell <campb...@neotext.ca> wrote:
> > I'd been tearing hair out over this and the general > inability of the Apple cups to cope with my admittedly > elderly Brother DCP 7020. I ran across a comment in > one of the linux forums saying that the Brother/Cups > (and some other printers) combination was fouled up > because of mishandling of the bidir usb. So I pulled > it all out and replaced it with a local build of cups-1.2.12 > and now it all works again, including ctrl-P. > Oh, and I had to pkg_delete&&pkg_add foomatic-filters > Now if only samba would still work... but I my have to > go retro there, too. > > Dhu > > > On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 15:08:26 +0200 (CEST) > Antoine Jacoutot <ajacou...@bsdfrog.org> wrote: > > > On Tue, 28 Sep 2010, Edd Barrett wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I can not seem to print preview in either firefox35 or 36. It just > > > disappears > > > (nothing printed on the terminal). I am using an amd64 machine with cups > > > and I > > > *do* have the gtk2 cups dialog installed (as suggested in README.OpenBSD). > > > > > > Making a new profile changes nothing. > > > > > > Disabling cups (/usr/local/sbin/cupsd-disable) makes no difference. > > > > This issue has been known for years. Sometimes the preview disappears, > > or printing crashes... > > No one knows why, but it only happens when gtk2-cups is used for > > printing in firefox. Our last hint was a conflict between openssl, > > gnutls and nss but really, no one knows. > > Talk to landry I think he has some bugzilla entries links that talk > > about some Firefox+cups related crashes. > > > > -- > > Antoine > >
