[HLUG] Naughty new Ubuntu?

[Marilyn or Tony McQueen]

Thanks Julian and Dave for your help re 11.10 not printing. Box Lawrence who you may remember used to come to meetings several years ago, sorted me out and found a patch or 2 from ubuntu.
Are there websites that you think of regarding info on the guts of linux. Old ones perhaps where the jargon is less thick. Coherence it seems must be avoided at all costs.
Tony


--- On Mon, 21/11/11, Julian Robbins <joolsr1 at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Julian Robbins <joolsr1 at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [HLUG] Naughty new Ubuntu?
To: "Herefordshire Linux Users Group." <herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Date: Monday, 21 November, 2011, 20:02

There's yet another new Ubuntu update for Cups and usb printers, so another
update may also help you.

ie

Version 1.5.0-8ubuntu5:

  *
debian/patches/usb-backend-gracefully-fail-on-more-cases-of-bad-device-id.patch:
    When reading out the device ID check also for too short lengths of the
    device ID and also in this case try to chjange the byte order of the
length
    bytes and fail if the device ID lenght is still too short (LP: #887094).
  * debian/patches/usb-backend-skip-set-configuration-set-interface.patch:
    Avoid unneeded SET_CONFIGURATION and SET_INTERFACE requests after the
    printer has already been configured. This often leads to subsequent jobs
    coming out as garbage or not at all.
  * debian/patches/usb-backend-reset-printer-before-printing.patch: Removed,
    as we are trying the less invasive approach of CUPS STR #3965.


Hope this helps

Julian

On 7 November 2011 00:55, Julian Robbins <joolsr1 at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On 5 November 2011 11:10, Marilyn or Tony McQueen <
> oak.organics at btinternet.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for your reply Julian .It is a Canon MP540 series.  I think my
>> printer is ok because it prints normally when used with another computer
>> running windows and was ok before I changed to the latest version of ubuntu
>> 11.10. I see others with the same problem on ubuntu's help pages but no
>> answers as yet.
>>
>
> Theres an Ubuntu update out which has a fix for certain USB printers, so
> you may want to try a sudo pat-get update/sudo apt-get upgrade and see if
> that helps ..
>
> Julian
>
>
>
>
>> Bests Tony
>>
>> --- On Wed, 2/11/11, Julian Robbins <joolsr1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> From: Julian Robbins <joolsr1 at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [HLUG] Naughty new Ubuntu?
>> To: "Herefordshire Linux Users Group." <herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk>
>> Date: Wednesday, 2 November, 2011, 22:39
>>
>> On 2 November 2011 18:25, Marilyn or Tony McQueen <
>> oak.organics at btinternet.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Hello Playmates
>> > Has anyone had trouble printing with version 11.10? The text is there
>> but
>> > in a very elongated, aerated form and faint too.
>> >
>>
>> Mines ok, . What sort of printer do you have ?
>>
>> Julian
>>
>>
>> > Bests Tony
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