From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1O5UQz-0004Vd-95 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 24 Apr 2010 01:45:31 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4F9C1E07AD; Sat, 24 Apr 2010 01:44:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qy0-f179.google.com (mail-qy0-f179.google.com [209.85.221.179]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 096ECE07AD for ; Sat, 24 Apr 2010 01:44:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qyk9 with SMTP id 9so14124155qyk.1 for ; Fri, 23 Apr 2010 18:44:31 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=99l+Ow1wFspfU8NtKwRYRJ4Fpz+um6UTkz/6ucPPL/E=; b=L7gB45/DwwVtF2pe97OCn2XpNFJy7BB7jXcgH2zw4Stj0SDb7/w8y8Ttn8BB+CoRu9 FxMMjMzQbIYXpTFNV7LNwX8ZXIbcknfFL43mj0eOw4snpU/jPgNwmJ8ojNG61dl8fWjJ k7KtGwfhSLEd77g+bRzKXcJNgl3JEQf8KWsw8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=u3WnfRRxVv+poldkmmG/ZEhVRHi9jFRX5ag6wupG/0ZwOwIhUZrutjZR6vJagVjDMM B5Rq0L42KxXdUTxvjrZPiKgBIQXS5iFFnN7gg6sGlQOqrg69HhHjwvG0/zaeSpS39Ikx WrOEZ18Mqv9f7bvTpf8Gg0zyi/e5MnfzbgWu0= Received: by 10.229.234.68 with SMTP id kb4mr1009949qcb.103.1272073470924; Fri, 23 Apr 2010 18:44:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([120.19.169.15]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id y41sm950033qce.17.2010.04.23.18.44.20 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 23 Apr 2010 18:44:30 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4BD24D1D.3000806@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 09:45:01 +0800 From: ubiquitous1980 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100409 Thunderbird/3.0.3 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] hplip recompiled with scanner use flag now scanning works, printing does not. References: <4BCBA8EF.2070007@gmail.com> <4BD192D4.5020602@gmail.com> <4BD1C983.2010104@gmail.com> <201004240122.46910.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> In-Reply-To: <201004240122.46910.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 944c1b62-aea7-47f4-88a3-d32429a630f0 X-Archives-Hash: bf243622e841d04fc345e4a7352abf44 Hello everyone who has replied so far, I updated to net-print/hplip-3.10.2-r4 same fault occurs...ran hp-setup as root. Perhaps it is time to escalate this as a bug? Any opinion? Thanks ubiquitous1980 On 24/04/10 08:22, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Friday 23 April 2010 17:23:31 Dale wrote: > > >> I have set up my HP printer with the cups interface before and it >> does not work as well as using the hp-setup command. It either is >> slow to print or jobs just set in the que and never print at all. I >> also always run hp-setup as root not a user. >> > You have to run hp-setup as root; nothing less will do. > > Seems to me that hplip is a black art. I have an HP printer here which > sometimes is entirely complaisant, other times its jobs just sit there > until I find the right invocation, other times again nothing I do will > coax it into action, short of killing the job and trying again. > > Surely, printing can't be as hard as this in this new age? > >