[Mageia-dev] What to use instead of /dev/usb/lp*

[Christiaan Welvaart]

On Sat, 28 Jul 2012, Florian Hubold wrote:

> Am 25.07.2012 20:05, schrieb Christiaan Welvaart:
>> On Wed, 25 Jul 2012, Jeff Robins wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 2:11 AM, Claire Robinson <eeeemail at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> usblp is blacklisted but you may find using modprobe usblp cures it for
>>>> you. If it does then comment it in
>>>> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-cups-common.conf or remove that file.
>>>>
>>> I'll give that a try.  Is there a better/newer way to access the
>>> device?  I'd like to update
>>> and fix the program if possible.
>>
>> The blacklisting is not needed anymore with recent cups(?) according to
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/+bug/902970/comments/12
>>
>> so removing the file from the cups package should be the solution.
>>
>>
>>     Christiaan
>>
> Are you sure we have the exact same cups usb backend as
> in recent *buntu versions? AFAIK usblp caused some segfaults and
> crashes, so it was blacklisted by default. But if any program loads
> it explicitely, it will work.

No, but I plan to update cups to 1.5.4 which has those fixes for usb 
AFAICT, see http://www.cups.org/str.php?L4128 . My printer is connected 
through my LAN so can't easily test usb access, however.

     Christiaan