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Subject: [gentoo-user]  Re: hal greps my USB printer - help !
Date:  Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:57:50 -0700
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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?