On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 15:32 -0400, Gregory Pittman wrote:
1. Plug-n-play automatic detection and setup of printers no longer
happens. Other USB devices get found as usual.
Do you still have system-config-printer-udev installed? Take a look
in /var/log/messages -- if necessary, edit /etc/rsyslog.conf and get it
to log "debug" messages by changing '*.info' to '*.debug' in
the /var/log/messages line and restarting it; then plug in a printer and
see what messages you get.
2. trying to use the menu-based Printer configuration ends with it
finding the printer, then telling packagekit to look for drivers, after
which it says that the drivers are installed, and it quits with an error.
PackageKit bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=585601
But "it quits" -- the "install packages" dialog, run by
gnome-packagekit, quits, yes. But system-config-printer should still be
there and ready for you to carry on creating the queue. Are you finding
that system-config-printer itself has quit? Would love to see if there
is a message about that in your ~/.xsession-errors file.
5. Using 'system-config-printer' on the command line by root
will allow
for setting up a USB-parallel connections printer.
This shouldn't be any different at all to running it from the menu as a
non-root user, aside from some PolicyKit dialogs. All the privileged
stuff is running by cupsd.
Tim.
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