Comment 34 for bug 369850

All,

The only way that I got this fixed was to reinstall 9.0.4 on my machine.
Now both my Samsung flat planel is recognized AND my parallel port printer.

Regards,

Richard Bishop

On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 12:56 PM, cubytus <email address hidden> wrote:

> I have a HP LaserJet 1100 that was perfectly working on Ubuntu 8.04, but
> couldn't even be detected in 9.04.
> I didn't even had the /dev/lp0 in that tree.
> As a machine, I have the exact same motherboard as edfield, and maybe the
> same computer (a HP Pavilion 750n), which is 9 year old. Everything is stock
> except the hard drive and a DVD burner.
>
> I added parport_pc in /etc/modules, and rebooted.
>
> I then tried to install the printer using the standard Ubuntu GUI, and
> it detected the correct printer on the parallel port.
>
> I could set it up using CUPS+Gutenprint, as I saw it gave "less bad"
> results as a color approximation at 600dpi.
>
> --
> Cannot set up parallel port printer on Ubuntu 9.04
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/369850
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> of the bug.
>
> Status in “linux” source package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
> Status in “udev” source package in Ubuntu: Invalid
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: cups
>
> I have just done a clean upgrade from Intrepid Ibex to Jaunty Jackalope
> (i.e., I downloaded the CD .iso file, burned it to CD and then did a clean
> install over the existing Ubuntu installation).
>
> I was able to set up my parallel port connected laser printer on Intrepid
> Ibex, but Jaunty Jackalope seems not to give me a choice of Parallal port
> when I try to set up my printer.
>
> Please tell me how to set up my parallel port connected laser printer on
> Jaunty Jackalope.
>
> Thanks!
>
> I used the ubuntu-bug cups program to upload the information about my
> system. I hope that it made it, associated with this bug.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> Architecture: i386
> CupsErrorLog:
> E [29/Apr/2009:13:47:59 -0400] CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer: Unauthorized
> E [29/Apr/2009:13:53:18 -0400] cupsdAuthorize: Local authentication
> certificate not found!
> E [29/Apr/2009:13:54:02 -0400] cupsdAuthorize: Local authentication
> certificate not found!
> E [29/Apr/2009:13:54:02 -0400] CUPS-Delete-Printer: Unauthorized
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
> Lpstat: Error: command ['lpstat', '-v'] failed with exit code 1: lpstat: No
> destinations added.
> Lsusb:
> Bus 001 Device 002: ID 13b1:000d Linksys WUSB54G Wireless Adapter
> Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
> MachineType: Dell Computer Corporation L466c
> Package: cups 1.3.9-17ubuntu2
> Papersize: letter
> ProcCmdLine: root=UUID=03f04b06-444f-44e9-8017-ff85b8c6db57 ro quiet splash
> ProcEnviron:
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.28-11.42-generic
> SourcePackage: cups
>