Re: [linux-usb-devel] 2.4.21 USB printer failure w/ HP PSC750

From: Alan Stern
Date: Fri Aug 15 2003 - 14:01:38 EST


On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, Gene Heskett wrote:

> I can confirm that this does not appear to be printer related, this
> nearly exact scenario just happened to me while running test3-mm2. So
> I powered down the printer, in this case an Epson C82 being driven by
> cups, and then rebooted to 2.4.22-rc2. Where it also refused to
> print, until I went to the local cups page and "started" both
> printers, which had been apparently disabled by the above failure and
> it carried over the reboot from 2.6.0-test3-mm2 to 2.4.22-rc2. Once
> the printer was 'started' then the 3 jobs I'd sent were spit right out
> normally.
>
> It appears that usblp still has problems as of 2.6.0-test3-mm2.

There was a recent change to usblp for 2.6.0, reversing a prior patch
which broke the driver somehow. See

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=2931846&forum_id=5398

I don't know whether or not this change is already incorporated in the
version you're using.

Alan Stern

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