On this page: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/printing-howto.xml In section 4. Configuring a Printer, under Code Listing 4.2: Looking for CUPS errors, in un-numbered section: Installing the Best Driver, you say: > Download the PPD file from the site and place it in /usr/share/cups/model. > This will make the driver available through the CUPS web interface. Now > reconfigure your printer as described above. This did not work for me. I had to also restart the cupsd service. Perhaps these instructions should be changed to: Download the PPD file from the site and place it in /usr/share/cups/model then restart cupsd by running /etc/init.d/cupsd restart. This will make the driver available through the CUPS web interface. Now reconfigure your printer as described above. Restarting the service is mentioned earlier in the document related to making changes /etc/cups/cupsd.conf, but it is not obvious that the service needs to be restarted when drivers are added. You instructions imply that the directory containing the drivers is scanned dynamically and no restart is needed.
Fixed in CVS. Thanks for reporting. (I fixed this same issue awhile ago over in the Cups/ClamAV/Samba howto, but I didn't check *this* doc to verify it had the same needed procedure. Sorry; slipped my mind.)
