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 1N3b8e-0003VI-89 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:58:28 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6BD0DE0928; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:58:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4365EE0928 for ; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:58:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E28CD670AD for ; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:58:25 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.163 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.163 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.565, BAYES_00=-2.599, WEIRD_PORT=0.001] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id ynUGZosAh1iG for ; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:58:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C1C767440 for ; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:58:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1N3b8N-0006tQ-WA for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:58:12 +0100 Received: from adsl-69-234-184-177.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net ([69.234.184.177]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:58:11 +0100 Received: from w41ter by adsl-69-234-184-177.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:58:11 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: walt Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: hal greps my USB printer - help ! Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:57:50 -0700 Message-ID: References: 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=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-69-234-184-177.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.3a1pre) Gecko/20091029 Shredder/3.1a1pre In-Reply-To: Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: c45a4f79-0e5e-4d4f-af43-b18999b6a4f6 X-Archives-Hash: 9440cfd4fdd6ae67d4444ab8bc9ff78d On 10/29/2009 08:11 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > on one of my identical (believed) machines, > hal greps the USB printer and disables CUPS... Could you be more specific about 'disables'? I use an HP USB printer on a machine running cupsd and hal, and it works perfectly: printer.originating_device = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_3f0_1617_00CNBM369103_if0' (string) printer.vendor = 'Hewlett-Packard' (string) printer.product = 'hp LaserJet 3015' (string) I think the problem must be something besides hal, but what? Is cups really running on the problem machine? Can you talk to cupsd using your web browser at http://localhost:631? If yes, does the printer show up in the list of known printers? If not, can you add it to the list of known printers?