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Hi,
I'm new in Linux - just a month or so of experience. I've just
ended installing the hpoj software, and I want to share with you
some problems I've found during the installation and how I've
overcome them.
First of all, I use SUSE Linux 9.0 with the following kernel: Linux
linux 2.4.21-215-default #1 Tue Apr 27 01:00:43 UTC 2004 i686
i686 i386 GNU/Linux
My printer is a HP PSC 1110 all-in-one.
I downloaded the package to compile it from source, since the
ones available for Suse 9.0 were not compiled for libusb support.
I succeeded in compiling - the standard compilation - the hpoj
software but I found the following bug: at the end of the proccess -
don't remember now whether it was in the 'make install' or before,
the compilation succeeded in creating the appropiate scripts for
'ptal-init' in all runlevels except in runlevel2 (/etc/init.d/rc2.d). I did
this manually following the instructions you provide in the
documentation pages. Since the compilation had created init
scripts with the form 'S01ptal-init' in the other runlevels (3 and 5), I
assigned the same S and K numbers to the scripts that I created in
runlevel2 (S01ptal-init).
Then I rebooted the system, and checked whether HP-OfficeJet got
started before CUPS. With this, there was no problem. But at the
end of the proccess, ptal-mlcd produced the following error:
May 24 20:57:18 linux ptal-mlcd: ERROR at ExMgr.cpp:4063,
dev=<mlc:usb:psc_1100_series@/dev/usb/lp0>, pid=743, e=20,
t=1085425038 libusbFindDevice: Couldn't find device!
As expected, when I try to communicate with the printer, using the
'ptal-print </dev/null' command, the program gave back "failed"
message. But, the somehow stunning thing was that if I 'ptal-init
setup' again, the comunication with the printer was made, and I
could use all the printer facilities.
After some thinking and trying various changes that didn't do
anything I found out what was the problem: compilation had
charged the scripts files too early, so the libusb modules weren't
still charged. I corrected this for all the runlevels (2,3 and 5) and
restarted the system. And everything is working!!!
The rest of the process was very easy: I used cups to setup the
print queue, and followed your instructions for sane. No problems
there.
I've post you this message because I don't know why the
compilation process assigned a '01' start script to ptal-init.
(S01ptal-init). I use the standard compilation, that is, no special
characteristics. If this is done automatically, I understand that is
done this way intentionally to get 'ptal-init' started before CUPS.
But, it would be useful to correct this numbers, so that 'ptal-init'
started just before CUPS.
I hope this would be useful to other users.
Thanks a lot.
José Juan González
[email protected]
P.D: sorry for my english. I am spanish: if I can help translating
your page or documentation, just tell...
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