From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC9471381FA for ; Sun, 1 Jun 2014 12:37:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D6FE6E08D5; Sun, 1 Jun 2014 12:37:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.muc.de (colin.muc.de [193.149.48.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 88546E08BF for ; Sun, 1 Jun 2014 12:37:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 8825 invoked by uid 3782); 1 Jun 2014 12:37:33 -0000 Received: from acm.muc.de (pD951A81A.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [217.81.168.26]) by colin.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Sun, 01 Jun 2014 14:37:32 +0200 Received: (qmail 4401 invoked by uid 1000); 1 Jun 2014 12:33:16 -0000 Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2014 12:33:16 +0000 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Please help me get my printer working again. Message-ID: <20140601123316.GA3701@acm.acm> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.12 (Macallan) From: Alan Mackenzie X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de X-Archives-Salt: 686c314e-d65b-4ca4-be4b-a5b63d80351e X-Archives-Hash: 6390859967de7a6cdbda9d8c1bdcb4f4 Hi, Gentoo. My printer used to work. According to CUPS, its last succesful print was in February. (Incidentally, I used to have an up-to-date system, but that went when I screwed it up after Gentoo made Gnome-3 stable and I tried to switch out of Gnome. My last emerge --sync was around the same time.) When I tried to print a *.pdf from evince, I got an error message saying /path/to/foomatic-rip didn't exist. (Sorry, I can't reproduce the exact error message any more). It would seem there has been a change from foomatic filters to cups-filters (which I have installed) at some stage. But I don't recall this change, and I can't find any docs about how to configure printing to use cups-filters. When I go through the "Modify printer" sequence in http://localhost:631, and try to change the filter, I just get presented with a long list of foomatic filters. I've been at this stage for some while now, dreading the impending hours and hours of web searching. Any tips people can give me to cut this miserable process short will be most warmly received. By the way, what has happened to the helpful documentation which used to be at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en? Most of it seems to have disappeared. There used to be a helpful doc on setting up a printer, but that has gone. (I'm lucky enough to be able to read the German translations, which (largely, at least) still exist, but they're somewhat out of date). -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).