The gentoo printing guide specifies that I should configure my printer using foomatic-configure but this process does not work for me. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. foomatic-configure -s cups -p 261673 -c /dev/lp0 -n Brother -d hl1250 Actual Results: Did not work. Expected Results: Should have set up a new printer queue. Workaround: foomatic-configure -s cups -p 261673 -c file:/dev/lp0 -n Brother -d hl150 This works correctly. I suspect, therefore, that the documentation in the Gentoo Printing Guide is incorrect. emerge-info: Portage 2.0.46-r12 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-which: no gcc in (/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin) sh: line 1: -dumpversion: command not found, glibc-2.3.1-r2) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.20 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1700+ GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/ http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb:/usr/kde/3.1/share/config:/usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" USE="x86 apm gpm mikmod zlib gtkhtml svga guile tcpd pam python esd qt motif 3dnow acpi alsa arts avi berkdb bonobo cdr crypt cups dga doc dvd encode gd gdbm gif gnome gtk imlib innodb java jpeg kde libg++ libwww mmx mozilla mpeg mysql ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pda pdflib perl png postgres qtmt quicktime readline sdl slang spell sse ssl tcltk tetex tiff truetype usb X xml2 xmms xv xlib" COMPILER="gcc3" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-mcpu=athlon-xp -march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe" CXXFLAGS="-mcpu=athlon-xp -march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe" ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" MAKEOPTS="-j2" AUTOCLEAN="yes" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" FEATURES="sandbox ccache"
Additionally, I believe that the cupsd should be started before using foomatic-configure.
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