Bug 292855

Summary:	Gentoo Printing Guide missing information on net-print/cups-1.4.1
Product:	[OLD] Docs on www.gentoo.org	Reporter:	Julian <julian>
Component:	Other documents	Assignee:	Docs Team <docs-team>
Status:	RESOLVED REMIND
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/printing-howto.xml
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Julian 2009-11-11 22:19:21 UTC

The printing guide instructs users to enable usblp in their kernels when using USB printers. CUPS 1.4 is incompatible with this option, as explained in Bug #285166. 
It would be helpful if the printing guide explained this, say by changing 
"To enable USB printing, you need USB support and USB printer support..." 
to 
"If using a CUPS version less than 1.4, to enable USB printing, you need USB support and USB printer support... For versions 1.4 and greater, make sure to disable this option, as it interferes with CUPS."

Reproducible: Always




http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=285166

Comment 1 nm (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-11-12 00:25:25 UTC

We don't document ~arch packages, only the stable tree. Please reopen once cups-1.4.x is marked stable.