payasam Posted June 3, 2009 Report Share Posted June 3, 2009 I have a Samsung ML 1450 printer, which in five years has worked without trouble under every variety of Linux I have used, including Mandrake/Mandriva. However, it is not recognised on my fresh installation of MDV 2009.1. I have checked the software installed and have changed the cable. The printer prints its test page as it should. Could the trouble derive from the fact that I am running Gnome after upgrading an earlier installation of Mandriva One (KDE 4)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
demonseth17 Posted June 3, 2009 Report Share Posted June 3, 2009 I have a Samsung ML 1450 printer, which in five years has worked without trouble under every variety of Linux I have used, including Mandrake/Mandriva. However, it is not recognised on my fresh installation of MDV 2009.1. I have checked the software installed and have changed the cable. The printer prints its test page as it should. Could the trouble derive from the fact that I am running Gnome after upgrading an earlier installation of Mandriva One (KDE 4)? have you checked that you're using that printer at the moment you're going to print? what I mean is that before you print check if you got it selected ....or try to print something else with another software/application... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
payasam Posted June 3, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 3, 2009 Can't set up the printer in MCC, ds17. No way it'll show up in an application. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverSurfer60 Posted June 3, 2009 Report Share Posted June 3, 2009 Is cups installed properly and running I wonder? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
payasam Posted June 3, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 3, 2009 CUPS was installed, SS60, but I re-installed it just in case. Every time I've checked, the service has been running. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theYinYeti Posted June 3, 2009 Report Share Posted June 3, 2009 Cups has a bug about file permissions. See https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=50154 and https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=49407 Maybe they apply to your problem, and the fix is easy. Yves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
payasam Posted June 3, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 3, 2009 Thank you, Yves. The easy fix did not work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Batson Posted June 3, 2009 Report Share Posted June 3, 2009 Are you using that printer via the USB port or Parallel Port? There have been probems reported using parallel port printers in 2009.1, but there is a workaround. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
payasam Posted June 3, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 3, 2009 (edited) Parallel port, David. Guess I need to go to Google. [edit] Once I knew what to search for, finding the fix was immediate. It is to do a chmod 700 on /usr/lib/cups/backend/parallel. That should be done also on .../hal and .../usb when appropriate. What a needless damn headache. This is not the sort of stupid problem one expects from a mature distribution. Edited June 3, 2009 by payasam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Batson Posted June 3, 2009 Report Share Posted June 3, 2009 Glad you got it sorted. :) I don't really think that Mandriva ever is a "Mature Distribution" these days. Too many major updates with each release. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
payasam Posted June 3, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 3, 2009 Maybe you're right, David: but one expects continuity, old problems to have been solved, certainly not new and absurd ones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted June 3, 2009 Report Share Posted June 3, 2009 It happens across other distros as well, so you can't just blame Mandriva for it. Maybe for the next release, they'll incorporate the change, then it'll be fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
demonseth17 Posted June 4, 2009 Report Share Posted June 4, 2009 Can't set up the printer in MCC, ds17. No way it'll show up in an application. but how did you print the test without MCC configuration??? mine never did that without a driver and "task-printing-epson" and other packages... :unsure: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
payasam Posted June 4, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 4, 2009 You are right, Ian, but as a Sanctimonious Old Fart (S.O.F., ver. MCML) I shall say that my bumping you off cannot be justified by pointing to the many murders for which the late lamented Bluebeard was responsible. My printer has a self test, ds17, as yours probably does as well. The printer does not need even to be connected to a computer. I press a couple of buttons in the specified way and out comes a test print-out. I should say here that I ran into what might be called a bug. One of the drivers I had installed, in my effort to see that the printer had all the software it needed, had to do with OKI4 printers. This set a "daemon" running, and that gummed up the works. All the applications I ran, kept crashing. I noticed the OKI4 messages on the scrolling screen and removed the offending stuff. All is well again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
demonseth17 Posted June 5, 2009 Report Share Posted June 5, 2009 My printer has a self test, ds17, as yours probably does as well. The printer does not need even to be connected to a computer. I press a couple of buttons in the specified way and out comes a test print-out. I should say here that I ran into what might be called a bug. One of the drivers I had installed, in my effort to see that the printer had all the software it needed, had to do with OKI4 printers. This set a "daemon" running, and that gummed up the works. All the applications I ran, kept crashing. I noticed the OKI4 messages on the scrolling screen and removed the offending stuff. All is well again. well you may be right but I thought you ran the print test from MCC..my bad :mellow: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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