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

[Florian Hubold]

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.