cups doesn't get the right ppd file

[Martín Marqués]

2009/6/21 Tom Horsley <tom.horsley at att.net>
>
> On Sun, 21 Jun 2009 22:43:15 +0100
> Tim Waugh wrote:
>
> > > Found the problem.
> > >
> > > Cups puts the printer at usb://Lexmark/E120 when it's really
> > > usb://Lexmark/Lexmark%20E120 (the second one works, while the first
> > > one doesn't).
> >
> > Please file a bug report against 'cups'.  It sounds like it might be a
> > problem with either the CUPS 'usb' backend or possibly with the
> > hal-cups-utils package.
>
> Meanwhile, the hal mailing list is often a good place to go for
> tips about smacking hal around. Maybe some sort of
> file in /etc/hal/fdi/policy/ could be used to make it stop
> auto configuring that printer, then you could just configure
> it manually (they helped me figure out how to make hal
> ignore a usb drive I didn't want automounted, so maybe
> it can ignore printers too).

The /etc/hal/fdi/*/ directories are all empty. :-(


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