Debian bug report logs - #1041, boring messages

Subject: Bug#1041: Debian printing problem
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From: rdr@legislate.com (Raul Miller)
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Package: base, lpr
Version: unknown [dpkg-0.93.42.3,  kernel 1.2.10,  lpr-5.9-6.deb]

[About 2 screens of quoted material before I say anything...]

Susan G. Kleinmann:
   > I am having trouble getting my printer device recognized under
   > Debian Linux.
...
   > Symptoms:  lpq claims "printer offline" -- not true.
   >
   >            ls > /dev/lp1 fails with the message "device not found"
   > --- even though /dev/lp1 is very clearly there in the /dev
   > directory.
   >
   > As I indicated above, the same tests work just fine when I boot
   > up from my Slackware disk.
   >
   > Is it a hint (possible understatement) that when I boot Slackware
   > I get the message:
   >       "kernel: lp1 at 0x0378, using polling driver",
   > but when I boot Debian I get
   >       "kernel: plip1: Parallel port at 0x378, using assigned IRQ 7."
   > and no mention of a polling driver?

Andrew Howell:
   Have you tried using/reading man page of lpc?

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I think I see two potential problems here.  Briefly, one might be
remedied by removing the line that says plip from /etc/modules.  The
other might be remedied by executing the command su -c 'lpc up lp'.

I feel that both of these could be better handled at installation
time.

[Aside: there's another problem with /etc/modules -- the 3c501 module
will spoof the 3c509 driver and prevent it from loading for some cases
of a system with only a 3c509 installed.]

--
Raul D. Miller

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Subject: Bug#1041: Debian printing problem
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> I think I see two potential problems here.  Briefly, one might be
> remedied by removing the line that says plip from /etc/modules.  The
> other might be remedied by executing the command su -c 'lpc up lp'.
>
> I feel that both of these could be better handled at installation
> time.
>
> [Aside: there's another problem with /etc/modules -- the 3c501 module
> will spoof the 3c509 driver and prevent it from loading for some cases
> of a system with only a 3c509 installed.]

Well, the new install meathods give lists of modules to load on
start-up.  It is the solution to this problem, as was discussed a
while back when the 3c50[1,9] conflict was brought up.

As a side-note, when I installed the system on a friends machine, I
had to move binary/base out of the path because dpkg tries to install
them, and that messes up things like /etc/modules, etc.  I would
suggest a post-install script for modules that asks which modules
should be loaded.  Also, Ian J., does/can dpkg ignore base (or perhaps
any) packages that have already been installed unless they are at a
higher version then what is on the system?


Jim

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Subject: Bug#1041: Debian printing problem
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From: rdr@legislate.com (Raul Miller)
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   Well, the new install meathods give lists of modules to load on
   start-up.  It is the solution to this problem, as was discussed a
   while back when the 3c50[1,9] conflict was brought up.

Hmm... I take it the new install methods aren't integrated with the
base packages?  [I've reinstalled the base packages several times,
rather than wiping my hard disk and re-installing everything from
scratch.]

--
Raul

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Subject: Bug#1041: Debian printing problem
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> Hmm... I take it the new install methods aren't integrated with the
> base packages?  [I've reinstalled the base packages several times,
> rather than wiping my hard disk and re-installing everything from
> scratch.]

Right, and I believe it might be better to put it in postinst, since
it is a very nice way of choosing modules (the user does not need an
editor, and doesn't need to know the format).

Jim

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reassign 1041 (base)