HP PSC Printers

[Christopher A. Williams]

On Sun, 2003-10-12 at 07:15, Tim Waugh wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 06:57:28AM -0600, Christopher A. Williams wrote:
> My father just bought a PSC2410xi yesterday and I was helping him to
> > install it. We've connected it to a usb port. While he is still running
> > Red Hat 9 at the moment, I do intend to upgrade his system to Fedora
> > once 1.0 hits. Frankly, the usb, hpoj and libsane-hpoj drivers on RH9
> > with this device, ..ummm ...stink big time.
> 
> Did you look at http://cyberelk.net/tim/hpoj.html?
> 
> There is an open bugzilla entry about automatic hpoj set-up, but it is
> unfortunately an awkward thing to attempt.  Hopefully the upstream
> hpoj package will make this easier in future.

Thansk, Tim - actually we did use your setup guide. Without it, we would
not have been able to set up the hpoj drivers at all!

Unfortunately, once we did set it up, the system would absolutely lock
up whenever you tried to print anything. I don't think this is as much
an hpoj driver problem as a USB problem now, the more I think about it.

On restarting the computer, we had to turn the printer off because the
usb drivers first failed to load properly and eventually the kernel
oopsed. Rebooting with the printer off let us recover the system and try
again. It was pretty messy.

Like I said, it works just fin with the hpijs drivers on the same USB
port.

Open for suggestions...

Cheers,

Chris


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