[cups.general] Suse 9.2 and CUPS.

[Jordi]

Johannes Meixner wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> this is not related to CUPS, nevertheless I send a final reply.
>
> On Dec 15 12:35 Jordi wrote (shortened):
> > Suse 9.2 recognize all of my parallel ports,  including the motherboar's
> > one (Intel D845GERG2) and two ports located in a pci card (Sunix 4014).
> > The installation program (the new Yast2) detects and install all the
> > printers attached to the ports (Designjet 220,  Ricoh Aficio 220 and
> > HP laserjet 5).  At this point all seems running fine but after the
> > install,  you got a messy installation with no /dev/lp files.
>
> If wou would have written this in your first mail it would have
> been clear what you have. Nobody can guess what your system is.
>
> I guess that "after the install" means in fact "after a reboot".
> If yes then it may happen that the parallel port kernel modules
> parport, parport_pc and lp are not loaded automatically.
> In this case add modprobe calls to /etc/init.d/boot.local
>
> Whether or not /dev/lp* exists depends on the udev system.
>
> For example on my workstation with only one parallel port:
>
> root at host# mknod /dev/lp0 c 6 0
>
> root at host# ls -l /dev/lp0
> crw-------  1 root root 6, 0 2004-12-16 11:58 /dev/lp0
>
> root at host# lsmod | egrep 'parport|^lp'
> parport_pc             43968  1
> lp                     14856  0
> parport                44616  2 parport_pc,lp
>
> root at host# rmmod lp
>
> root at host# ls -l /dev/lp0
> /bin/ls: /dev/lp0: No such file or directory
>
> root at host# echo -en '\r' >/dev/lp0
>
> root at host# ls -l /dev/lp0
> -rw-------  1 root root 1 2004-12-16 11:59 /dev/lp0
>
> Now /dev/lp0 has become a normal file.
> But when the lp module is loaded again the device node
> is forced to be re-created by udev automatically:
>
> root at host# modprobe lp
>
> root at host# lsmod | egrep 'parport|^lp'
> lp                     14856  0
> parport_pc             43968  1
> parport                44616  2 lp,parport_pc
>
> root at host# ls -l /dev/lp0
> crw-rw----  1 root lp 6, 0 2004-12-16 12:01 /dev/lp0
>
> Note that the owner, group and permissions are now set by udev
> to what is specified according to
>
> root at host# grep ^lp /etc/udev/permissions.d/50-udev.permissions
> lp*:root:lp:660
>
>
> Summary:
> It is crucial that the parport related kernel modules
> are loaded correctly at boot time and that they are
> not removed by some unknown process.
>
>
> Regards
> Johannes Meixner
> --
> SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5      Mail: jsmeix at suse.de
> 90409 Nuernberg, Germany                    WWW: http://www.suse.de/
>


Thanks Johannes.  I'll try it next weekend  because I've reinstalled Suse 8.2 in the printserver box.

Thanks a lot.

Jordi Perdigó.