Changeset a217f28 for pst/printing/cups.xml

Timestamp:

09/26/2010 04:24:42 AM (14 years ago)

Author:

DJ Lucas <dj@…>

Branches:

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Children:

bfa45ca

Parents:

a8d3d55a

Message:

Added note to cups page about the new CUPS USB backend and usblp driver being incompatible.

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@8616 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

File:

• pst/printing/cups.xml (modified) (3 diffs)

pst/printing/cups.xml

@@ -108 +108 @@
 <screen role="root"><userinput>useradd -c "Print Service User" -d /dev/null -g lp -s /bin/false -u 9 lp</userinput></screen>
 
+    <note>
+      <para>If you plan to use a USB printer with
+      <application>CUPS</application>, do not enable the
+      <quote>usblp</quote> driver as either built-in or as a module in
+      your kernel configuration as it will cause the new 
+      <application>CUPS</application> USB backend to fail.
+      <filename>/var/log/sys.log</filename> will contain entries similar to the
+      following:</para>
+
+      <screen>kernel: [54631.796465] usb 4-1: usbfs: interface 0 claimed by usblp while 'usb' sets config #1</screen>
+
+      <para>The kernel config option is
+      <parameter>CONFIG_USB_PRINTER</parameter>
+      and can be found in menuconfig under
+      <quote>Device Drivers ---> USB support --->
+      USB Printer support</quote>.</para>
+    </note>
+
     <para>Install <application>CUPS</application> by running the
     following commands:</para>
@@ -177 +195 @@
     <application>CUPS</application> developers.</para>
 
+<!-- This should be obvious, not to mention the new problem with usblp.
+     Omitting completely for now.
+
     <sect3 role="kernel" id="cups-kernel">
       <title>Kernel Configuration</title>
@@ -186 +207 @@
 
     </sect3>
+-->
 
     <sect3 id="cups-init">