Printer problem

[Alexander Apprich]

Kimmo,

Kimmo Elo wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a FC3 box with a Lexmark Optra R+ laser printer conntected
> to /dev/lp0. Every time the printer goes into the power save mode, GNOME
> (2.8) loses it, i.e. the printer does not "wake up" when I try to print
> something. The jobs just remain in the queue. After I have run
> "hwbrowser" things are fine again. And please don't suggest: turn off
> printer's power save, because I have had SuSE linux 9.2 + KDE 3.4
> earlier and everything worked just fine there! (I changed to FC simply
> because since the SuSE+Novell marriage that distro seems to approach a
> certain OS from Redmond...)
> 
> Any ideas?

the problem is AFAIK cups, as it checks if a printer is availible or
not. If not, cups is going to disable the printer. With cupsenable
you can enable the queue again.

Check cupsdconf if there is an option to change this behavior...

> 
> Greetings from Finland
> 
> Kimmo
> 

Alex