[opensuse-factory] Yast2 and USB Printers
Hey Group; I have a USB Brother MFC 7840W and their custom driver for Linux. It was a RPM and downloaded from Brother's site for this printer, fax and scanner. I call up Yast2 (console or X) and the printer is found under Hardware. It seems to setup /etc/cups/ and printcap. Cups "d" is running according to "ps ax | grep cups" "lp file.text" seems returns a job number and lpq shows it. As for USB - lsusb and hwinfo --usb show it. Plus hwinfo --usb shows a kernel module that is seen with "lsmod" A website showed a way to test it using lptest and that worked for a test page. Where are what is causing it not to print? Sometimes it will wake up the display and says "Rec. Data" and then "Sleep". My guess is it is Brothers problem. Things like strace -fo stop at the end of cups from "lp file.txt" -- 73 de Donn Washburn 307 Savoy Street Email:" n5xwb@comcast.net " Sugar Land, TX 77478 LL# 1.281.242.3256 Ham Callsign N5XWB HAMs : " n5xwb@arrl.net " VoIP via Gizmo: bmw_87kbike / via Skype: n5xwbg BMW MOA #: 4146 - Ambassador " http://counter.li.org " #279316 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
Hello, On Dec 7 19:32 Donn Washburn wrote (shortened):
I have a USB Brother MFC 7840W and their custom driver for Linux. ... A website showed a way to test it using lptest and that worked for a test page.
Where are what is causing it not to print? Sometimes it will wake up the display and says "Rec. Data" and then "Sleep".
Perhaps it is https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=559697 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-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
Johannes Meixner schrieb:
Hello,
On Dec 7 19:32 Donn Washburn wrote (shortened):
I have a USB Brother MFC 7840W and their custom driver for Linux. ... A website showed a way to test it using lptest and that worked for a test page.
Where are what is causing it not to print? Sometimes it will wake up the display and says "Rec. Data" and then "Sleep".
Perhaps it is https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=559697
maybe this is somehow related (?): http://georgherdt.de/technology/epson-c1100-on-opensuse-11.2.html Using ghostscript-library-8.64-23.1 from repo Printing:ghostscript/openSUSE_11.2 instead of standard distribution's version solved non printing issue with EPSON Aculaser C1100 and Brother HL-2030. Best regards Nico
Kind Regards Johannes Meixner
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Hello, On Dec 8 10:36 Nicolaus Millin wrote (shortened):
Johannes Meixner schrieb:
On Dec 7 19:32 Donn Washburn wrote (shortened):
I have a USB Brother MFC 7840W and their custom driver for Linux. ... A website showed a way to test it using lptest and that worked for a test page.
Where are what is causing it not to print? Sometimes it will wake up the display and says "Rec. Data" and then "Sleep".
Perhaps it is https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=559697
maybe this is somehow related (?):
http://georgherdt.de/technology/epson-c1100-on-opensuse-11.2.html
Using
ghostscript-library-8.64-23.1
from repo
Printing:ghostscript/openSUSE_11.2
instead of standard distribution's version solved non printing issue with EPSON Aculaser C1100 and Brother HL-2030.
The latter looks more like https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=557948 because http://georgherdt.de/technology/epson-c1100-on-opensuse-11.2.html reads "-sDEVICE=bitrgb" which looks similar to "-sDEVICE=bitcmyk" and ghostscript-library.changes in the ghostscript-library package in the Printing:ghostscript project already contains: -------------------------------------------------------------------- - Add patch to correct bitcmyk blank output on e.g. Samsung CLP-300 and other printers (bnc# 557948) -------------------------------------------------------------------- If it is https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=557948 then monochrome printing should work but no color printing and a downgrade of ghostscript-library helps. If it is https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=559697 monochrome and color printing works only for a little bit (e.g. a small test page or the very top of a page) and then data transfer breaks with whatever kind of USB I/O errors and a downgrade of libusb helps. 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-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
Johannes Meixner schrieb:
Hello,
On Dec 7 19:32 Donn Washburn wrote (shortened):
I have a USB Brother MFC 7840W and their custom driver for Linux.
...
A website showed a way to test it using lptest and that worked for a test page. Where are what is causing it not to print? Sometimes it will wake up the display and says "Rec. Data" and then "Sleep".
Perhaps it is https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=559697
maybe this is somehow related (?): http://georgherdt.de/technology/epson-c1100-on-opensuse-11.2.html Using ghostscript-library-8.64-23.1 from repo Printing:ghostscript/openSUSE_11.2 instead of standard distribution's version solved non printing issue with EPSON Aculaser C1100 and Brother HL-2030.
Best regards Nico
Kind Regards Johannes Meixner
Back to my problem. I just load Fedora and the printer worked right off
On 12/08/2009 03:36 AM, Nicolaus Millin wrote: the bat. It printed a cups test page right from the setup GUI. So what can be causing openSuSE not to see a printer that works? It is a USB issue with openSuSE. Ubuntu and Fedora work without the Brothers drivers even -- 73 de Donn Washburn 307 Savoy Street Email:" n5xwb@comcast.net " Sugar Land, TX 77478 LL# 1.281.242.3256 Ham Callsign N5XWB HAMs : " n5xwb@arrl.net " VoIP via Gizmo: bmw_87kbike / via Skype: n5xwbg BMW MOA #: 4146 - Ambassador " http://counter.li.org " #279316 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
On 12/08/2009 03:12 AM, Johannes Meixner wrote:
Hello,
On Dec 7 19:32 Donn Washburn wrote (shortened):
I have a USB Brother MFC 7840W and their custom driver for Linux. ... A website showed a way to test it using lptest and that worked for a test page.
Where are what is causing it not to print? Sometimes it will wake up the display and says "Rec. Data" and then "Sleep".
Perhaps it is https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=559697
Kind Regards Johannes Meixner
Thanks Johannes and Nicolaus; I did look at the BUG report and my model was not shown but I bet the problem is the same. I did install both Brother RPMs and Yast and cups seem happy. lsusb/hwinfo and lsmod show correct information. It does act like the system is working and usb is not handling the request. -- 73 de Donn Washburn 307 Savoy Street Email:" n5xwb@comcast.net " Sugar Land, TX 77478 LL# 1.281.242.3256 Ham Callsign N5XWB HAMs : " n5xwb@arrl.net " VoIP via Gizmo: bmw_87kbike / via Skype: n5xwbg BMW MOA #: 4146 - Ambassador " http://counter.li.org " #279316 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
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