From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041020 Description of problem: # printtool No match for USB device: mfr "EPSON" model "Stylus COLOR 777" desc "EPSON Stylus COLOR 777" cmdset "ESCPL2,BDC,D4" Please report this message in Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla Choose 'foomatic' as the component. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): foomatic-3.0.2-3 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Update to Fedora Core 3.0 2. Printing fails 3.Invoke printtool as root Actual Results: The Epson Stylus 777 connected via USB to /dev/usb/lp0 is rcognized but fails to print. Ditto with a parallel port connection to /dev/lp0 The error message above appears when invoking printtool Expected Results: Printing, as before in Fedora Core 2. Additional info: Printing to a networked printer works, but not with the tes-page from printtool.
Please confirm the product you are using: this is filed against Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, but you mention Fedora Core 3. Which one are you using?
Sorry, I did not notice the fc3 entry at the top of the menu. i am using FC3 (with all the updates till 11/16). I tried three different kernels (2.6.9 custom, 2.6.7, and -2.6.9-1.667) with the same effect. usbview lists the printer just like in FC2, and other USB devices (scanner, storage) work fine.
Created attachment 106901 [details] /usr/share/foomatic/db/source/printer/Epson-Stylus_Color_777.xml Please save this attachment and copy it to /usr/share/foomatic/db/source/printer/Epson-Stylus_Color_777.xml. Then I'd like you to run printtool again and see if the correct printer model is selected automatically. I understand that there are additional problems beyond getting the model automatically selected, but I'd like to concentrate on this part first.
With the new xml file the printer is recognized , though the gui interface is very slow. I am testing it further and will report back if problems arise.
Seems to work fine now -- even as a shared printer from my Macintosh powerbook. Thanks for the help!
Great, thanks for testing.