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