[cups.general] HP PSC-750 "Media tray empty!" Error

[RSalles]

Anonymous wrote:
> Hey Till
> 
> You know your suggestion to solve the failing hpssd problem really SUCKS!!!!!!    If you don't know what you are talking about, don't try to act intelligent and come up with B.S. answers you have seen elsewhere on the net....   It's B.S. answers like yours that hurt the home users as well as the Linux developers.....
> 
> So do us all a favor....   shut the f*** up, unless you know what you are talking about....
> 
> 
> 
>>Thanks - that got me a little bit further.
>>I'm not there yet though :-(
>>
>>After compilation and install, I tried to run /etc/init.d/hplip restart
>>and got the error
>>---------------------
>>Stopping hpiod: /etc/init.d/hplip: line 35: =: command not found
>>/etc/init.d/hplip: line 37: $pidfile: ambiguous redirect
>>kill: usage: kill [-s sigspec | -n signum | -sigspec] [pid | job]... or
>>kill -l[sigspec]
>>rm: too few arguments
>>Try `rm --help' for more information.
>>                                           [FAILED]
>>Stopping hpssd: /etc/init.d/hplip: line 35: =: command not found
>>/etc/init.d/hplip: line 37: $pidfile: ambiguous redirect
>>kill: usage: kill [-s sigspec | -n signum | -sigspec] [pid | job]... or
>>kill -l[sigspec]
>>rm: too few arguments
>>Try `rm --help' for more information.
>>                                           [FAILED]
>>Starting hpiod:                                            [FAILED]
>>Starting hpssd:                                            [FAILED]
>>---------------------
>>
>>If I run /etc/init.d/hplip start, I get just the last two hpiod and
>>hpssd failed error lines.
>>
>>I also tried installing the gentoo hppoj ebuild.  I can print to the
>>device with the generic deskjet printer driver (poor quality printing),
>>but have no luck with the correct PSC-750xi printer driver.  The fault
>>is slightly different to before though.
>>
>>With the USB driver, the printer would report an empty media tray, while
>>now the localhost:631 interface reports everything OK, but when I try to
>>print a test page, I get a 'job aborted' error.
>>
>>Jeff
>>
>>
>>On Fri, 2004-12-17 at 04:00 +0100, Till Kamppeter wrote:
>>
>>>Use
>>>
>>>./configure --enable-rpm-install
>>>
>>>with HPLIP 0.8.4, this should suppress the chkconfig call but do all the
>>>rest.
>>>
>>>    Till
>>>
>>
> 
For your information, Till Kampetter had packed the fomatic-rip ppd's to 
the Mandrake linux distro, and is a co-webmaster at linuxprinting.org. 
It seems that he does know what he's talking about and you do not even 
imagine with who are you talking to.