CUPS printer selection in KDE stop working

Jacob Switzenberg jswitzy75 at netscape.net
Sun Feb 29 15:15:17 PST 2004


Does anyone know how CUPS uses it's backend?  I have an Epson C80 
attached to a USB port and after the initial install of FreeBSD 5.2.1 
(I've tried 4.9 and the same thing happens as described further), I can 
choose a local USB printer through the Add Printer/Class of the KDE 
Printing Manager using the CUPS printing system.  Before I add the 
printer I install CUPS-PSTORASTER (which installs its dependencies ie. 
GHOSTSCRIPT, ESPGS, etc.) and GIMP-PRINT (for the C80 PPD) and at some 
point I lose the ability to choose the local USB printer selection in 
the KDE Printing Manager, all of the selections are grayed out with only 
"Other printer type" and "Class of printers" available.

Any ideas of what is going on, or what has happened?

I've tried deinstalling CUPS-BASE (through make deinstall) and then 
reinstalling, installing CUPS-BASE/PSTORASTER 1.20, upgrading to KDE 
3.2, but the options remain grayed out.

I apologize if this is the wrong list to post this in.

Jacob



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