printer doesn't work after upgrade

[fjkhf]

Hello , my printer doesn't work after upgrade .

What can I do?

Thank you!

[hammy_283]

Hi fjkhf,

Have you tried to find a driver for your printer in Rigo or other software managers? Sometimes depending on the brand name you might be able to find the driver with the software mangers. Or sometimes you can find generic printer driver for a set of printers. I will try and find some answer online and will post them for you if I find anything. Sorry for not being much help.

[fjkhf]

Hello ,

I have Lexmark e240 and i use Lexmark e238 or some other generic driver and it works fine.

But , now when i click to print something the printer just does nothing,the icon for the printer job doesn't appear.
I modified again the drivers but still nothing...

Thanks!

[hammy_283]

Did you try and check the print properties, just to make sure you are on the correct printer? Sorry if this sounds dumb, just trying eliminating somethings to narrow down the cause of your problem. Also, how is your printer connected? By USB or something else?

[hammy_283]

I am sorry this is all I found on the net, as of right now.

http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/Lexmark_Printers
http://www.openprinting.org/printer/Lexmark/Lexmark-E238

They mostly go over the procedures of installing drivers and adding printers. The steps are a bit advanced but hopefully this will help you. Sorry for not being much help. I will keep on trying to find an answer for you.

[Fitzcarraldo]

In the case of many models of USB printer, the usblp module stops CUPS >1.3 from working. In fact, for many models of USB printer, even if the usblp module is blacklisted (i.e. not loaded), CUPS >1.3 with the usb USE flag set still refuses to work. The latter is the case for my Canon USB printers: If I don't build the kernel with CONFIG_USB_PRINTER=n then CUPS >1.3 simply will not work even with USE="usb".

Now, I see in the SL Git repository that CONFIG_USB_PRINTER=m in the latest SL kernel config. And I also see that the Entropy package for CUPS 1.5.3 was built with USE="usb". So the first thing I would try if I were you would be, as root user in a Konsole/Terminal window, to check if the usblp module (the module that is created when the kernel config contains CONFIG_USB_PRINTER=m) is loaded and, if it is, unload it:

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lsmod | grep usb
rmmod usblp

I don't recall whether or not it is necessary to restart CUPS after that in order for CUPS to notice the change, but it won't do any harm to do it anyway:

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/etc/init.d/cupsd restart

If you're lucky, your printer will then be able to print (and you could then blacklist the module so it is never loaded when you boot your PC). If you're not lucky, i.e. the Lexmark driver requires CONFIG_USB_PRINTER=n in the kernel, then you would either have to rebuild the kernel or file a request (see the link 'Bugs' at the top of this page) for the SL developers to reissue the kernel image package built with CONFIG_USB_PRINTER=n.

References:
Confused about the 'usb' use flag
CUPS does not recognize my USB printer
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-70 ... ml#7041142

[hammy_283]

That totally make sense. That would have been my next guess.

[fjkhf]

Ok, thank you both. I issued a bug .


( The usblp module was not loaded)

[fjkhf]

I removed the printer and i added it again.It works now,but the icon doesn't show.