Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 88086
No auto-setup of HPOJ 'PTAL' devices
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:52:47 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.7 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20030131 Description of problem: I have an HP OfficeJet K80 local USB printer. Kudzu detects it correctly on boot up. When I start redhat-config-printer from the GNOME control-panel (system-settings:///Printing) the printer is listed correctly - /dev/usb/lp0 Hewlett-Packard OfficeJet K80 - in its list of available queues. If I edit the queue, and go to the "Printer driver" tab I see that the correct manufacturer and model are selected. Under the "Available drivers" drop-down hpijs is selected. However, in the "Printer/driver notes ..." it states that: "For printing via USB you NEED to set up this printer with HPOJ, even if you do not want to scan." But the hpoj drivers are not listed under the list of available drivers despite being installed: hpoj-devel-0.90-14 libsane-hpoj-0.90-14 hpoj-0.90-14 All attempts to print to the printer in its currently configured state silently fail. Note that related to this I cannot configure the HPOJK80 as a scanner either. If I start Xsane it starts with a "scanning for devices" dialog, and then says "no devices available" and quits. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 0.6.47-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run redhat-config-printer 2. Select HP OfficeJet K80 on /dev/usb/lp0 and configure with recommended driver 3. Attempt to print test page Actual Results: Nothing is printed Expected Results: Test page gets printed Additional info: It was hard to know what component to file this bug against - hpoj, redhat-config-printer, or Xsane. Given the popularity of the HP OfficeJet printers, and the availability of good quality drivers for them, this should work out of the box.
There are three things preventing this from working "out of the box": 1. A perl bug (#82652) 2. redhat-config-printer not knowing about PTAL devices, fixed in rawhide 3. redhat-config-printer not doing auto-setup of ptal devices, since it's hard to do [reported upstream] Since the first two of these have been fixed or reported elsewhere, I'll leave this one open for the auto-setup issue.
*** Bug 125197 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
colin->tim: Is this fixed in FC-3, or is hal playing up funny with usb:ptal and the printers still not being configured correctly? HP PSD 1200 series has been confirmed to not working as well
You still need to run 'service hpoj setup' to get anything going. I haven't looked closely at hplip yet (next generation hpoj), but I'm hoping that allows us to set things up automatically.
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