Re: CUPS (Sid) not printing. (SOLVED?)

I went into http://localhost:631/ and "started" the printer.

I never had to do this before so how to I make this happen
automatically?

If you put

lp

in /etc/modules

and reboot, is /dev/lp0 created with the correct permissions?

My /dev is static. I am not using udev. I have set the permissions to
crw.rw.... Somehow, it had been changed to NO rw at all.

This doesn't help if the module isn't loaded. Make sure it shows up
in the lsmod output, along with parport.

If so, does CUPS then start-up and make the printer available without
manual intervention?

I had to add lp to /etc/modules sometime after a 2.6.16.x upgrade.

I will add it to /set/modules and see. I did not have this problem
with 2.6.16 kernels but then again, I do not do all that much
printing so maybe I did. Cups writes printer.conf with the default
printer (with the data switch setting the parallel line to it) as
"idle" and the second printer (not live) to "stopped". So why did I
need to manually "start" the supposedly "idle" printer?

Run

/usr/sbin/tunelp -s /dev/lp0

and see what it says. It should ideally say online/ready.

I have two printers and use them through a switchbox.
Either one with it power off: 127, out of paper, on-line
The (default) hp690 turned on: 95, busy, on-line
The epson lq570, 223, on-line.

The hps listed as idle, the epson as stopped. Changing this by starting or
stopping the printers from localhost:631 makes no difference.


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