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I have installed OpenSuse 10.3 and my HP Photosmart 8450 refuses to print. I have spent a lot of time trying to get it to work, but without sucess. Could someone please help me to solve this problem.\

Works perfectly here (but I cannot get my Lexmark Laser 4039 to print :-( ).

Do you have the USB cable plugged into the right hole? It's easy enough to plug it into the network port.

If it is plugged in correctly then I suggest you REMOVE it in Yast's Control Centre/Hardware, unplug the power supply of the printer, plug the power back in again and let 10.3 come up with the message Found New Hardware -- or use Control Centre's Options Restart Detection of printers; the printer should be detected as an HP 8400 series printer. Thanks for your replies Basil and Joe. I've tried the things that both suggested, without success. If I reconfigure the printer in Yast then it will work until the printer is switched off and on again. I have been using openSuse for some time. Printing was OK with 10.0. 10.1 and 10.2, but when I upgraded to 10.3 the

On Monday 04 February 2008 11:30:35 Basil Chupin wrote: problem with the printer arose. I have 10.3 on another machine and it displays the same problem. I installed Kubuntu and there was abolutely no problem with the same printer. I also have a Microsoft (spit !) box and it works OK with the same printer. I have read another list where someone was having the same problem with the same setup ie. 10.3 and HP Photosmart, however the guy was not given a satisfactory reply. The 10.3 that I am using is the downloaded version from a reputable provider. I am contemplating buying the boxed version of 10.3 - but it is still a risk, although it comes with 90 days support. My other alternative is to re-install Kubuntu, but the problem with that is no Realplayer and no Flashplayer. My preference is to continue with openSuse 10.3. because I have grown used to it and I lke it (when it works properly :-) ) I need someone to say "yes I had that problem and I solved it by ............. I feel sure that someone out there must have had the same problem. Charles -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Monday 04 February 2008 15:48:23 Patrick Shanahan wrote:

* charles [02-04-08 10:19]:

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If I reconfigure the printer in Yast then it will work until the printer is switched off and on again.

after turning off and back on issue from the cl: cupsenable and try to print.... Thanks for the reply Patrick. Tried that - still not working :-(

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Joe Morris wrote:

On 02/04/2008 11:18 PM, charles wrote:

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Thanks for your replies Basil and Joe. I've tried the things that both suggested, without success. If I reconfigure the printer in Yast then it will work until the printer is switched off and on again.

So which is it, no success in getting it to print (i.e. initial config), or inability to print after it is turned off and on? That is 2 different problems. And you give no error info to give us any clues to even try to help. Assuming you have it working with hplip, what is the output of hp-check? Also, your problem sounds familiar to a bug in cups-autoconfig. See https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=334166 for more info, or maybe uninstall cups-autoconfig.

I've just had a look at the above bug report and on 7 January 2008 it was marked as "RESOLVED". Well, it hasn't been as far as I am concerned because I just looked at my (new) installation of 10.3 on another computer and see that the DisablePrinters........ parameter is STILL set to YES as a (?)default. [rest pruned] Ciao. -- Past experience, if not forgotten, is a guide for the future. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Monday 04 February 2008 19:14:47 James Knott wrote:

charles wrote:

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I have installed OpenSuse 10.3 and my HP Photosmart 8450 refuses to print. I have spent a lot of time trying to get it to work, but without sucess. Could someone please help me to solve this problem.

Charles

Does that printer work with other applications? It will work with any application except when it is switched off and then on again. i.e. when it is switched back on it will not work at all.

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Hello, On Feb 4 22:13 charles wrote (shortened):

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I have installed OpenSuse 10.3 and my HP Photosmart 8450 ... It will work with any application except when it is switched off and then on again. i.e. when it is switched back on it will not work at all.

From the CUPS point of view it is a "third-party" tool. It was introduced by our "Desktop" team/department to make

See https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=334166 Since openSUSE 10.3 we have the new RPM "cups-autoconfig" which contains a utility for auto-configuring USB printers which is triggered by udev/HAL device events. Note that this tool neither comes from the CUPS authors nor is the RPM a sub-package of the cups RPM. printing more convenient in particular for "Desktop" users. By default it disables/enables print queues when udev/HAL events appear that a USB printer is disconnected/connected. Its /etc/cups-autoconfig.conf contains by default: -------------------------------------------------------------- [CUPS] ConfigureNewPrinters=yes DisablePrintersOnRemoval=yes DefaultCUPSPolicy=relaxed Debug=yes -------------------------------------------------------------- It is triggered via /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/10-cups-autoconfig.fdi which runs /usr/lib/cups-autoconfig/cups-autoconfig which does the actual stuff, see /usr/lib/cups-autoconfig/cups-autoconfig --help (you must run even '--help' as root, otherwise you get errors) Debugging output is in /var/log/cups-autoconfig.log If you don't like what cups-autoconfig does (i.e. if you prefer that you control the print queues and not whatever automatism), uninstall the cups-autoconfig package and reboot (or restart HAL) to make HAL aware of its changed config files, see https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=218393#c28 For some background information, see http://code.google.com/p/cups-autoconfig/ Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany AG Nuernberg, HRB 16746, GF: Markus Rex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org