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Been looking around, and have more questions. What directory should all these ppd files and such be installed to in Slackware? Seems the avasys source installs to the wrong places in Arch Linux, could I be seeing a similar issue? Where does Slackware keep its printer drives and whatnot?

check the cups man page perhaps?

From man cups-driverd

Code:

DRIVERS

      Drivers can be static PPD files under the /usr/share/cups/model  direc-

      tory  or  programs under the /usr/lib/cups/driver directory. Static PPD

      files must conform to the Adobe PPD File Format  Specification  version

      4.3  and  may  be compressed using the gzip(1) program. Driver programs

      must implement the command-line interface shown in the next section.

These directories are all empty on my -current system after installing the openprinting.org package.

Decided to remove the driver package and try to reinstall. When I did, I saw this

Code:

Removing package /var/log/packages/epson-inkjet-printer-escpr-1.2.0-1lsb3.2.i486...

Removing files:

  --> Deleting symlink /opt/epson-inkjet-printer-escpr/lib/libescpr.so

  --> Deleting symlink /opt/epson-inkjet-printer-escpr/lib/libescpr.so.1

  --> Deleting /opt/epson-inkjet-printer-escpr/cups/lib/filter/epson-escpr

  --> Deleting /opt/epson-inkjet-printer-escpr/cups/lib/filter/epson-escpr-wrapper

  --> Deleting /opt/epson-inkjet-printer-escpr/doc/AUTHORS

  --> Deleting /opt/epson-inkjet-printer-escpr/doc/COPYING

  --> Deleting /opt/epson-inkjet-printer-escpr/doc/NEWS

  --> Deleting /opt/epson-inkjet-printer-escpr/doc/README

  --> Deleting /opt/epson-inkjet-printer-escpr/doc/README.ja

  --> Deleting /opt/epson-inkjet-printer-escpr/lib/libescpr.so.1.0.0



  --> Deleting /opt/epson-inkjet-printer-escpr/ppds/Epson/Epson-PM-A890-epson-inkjet-printer-escpr.ppd.gz



  --> Deleting /opt/epson-inkjet-printer-escpr/share/paper_list.csv

  --> Deleting empty directory /opt/epson-inkjet-printer-escpr/share/

  --> Deleting empty directory /opt/epson-inkjet-printer-escpr/ppds/Epson/

  --> Deleting empty directory /opt/epson-inkjet-printer-escpr/ppds/

  --> Deleting empty directory /opt/epson-inkjet-printer-escpr/lib/

  --> Deleting empty directory /opt/epson-inkjet-printer-escpr/doc/

  --> Deleting empty directory /opt/epson-inkjet-printer-escpr/cups/lib/filter/

  --> Deleting empty directory /opt/epson-inkjet-printer-escpr/cups/lib/

  --> Deleting empty directory /opt/epson-inkjet-printer-escpr/cups/

  --> Deleting empty directory /opt/epson-inkjet-printer-escpr/

Looks like converting the rmp with rpm2tgz and then installing the resulting package writes all the files to the /opt directory. Thus CUPS can't find it and my printer doesn't work...right?

Here is the ppd, right where it's supposed to be, but why is there an asterisk after the filename?

I think the permissions are correct, are they?

Code:

root@slacktop:/usr/lib/cups/driver# ls -l

total 80

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 79036 Jun  3 15:18 Epson-PM-A890-epson-escpr-en.ppd*

Quote:

Originally Posted by ahzthecat (Post 4694927)

Looks like converting the rmp with rpm2tgz and then installing the resulting package writes all the files to the /opt directory. Thus CUPS can't find it and my printer doesn't work...right?

right ..!!

also, there's this output from lpinfo... no direct usb

Code:

root@slacktop:~# lpinfo -v

direct scsi

network smb

network http

network socket

network ipp

network lpd

network beh

direct hp

direct hpfax

root@slacktop:~#

Which config file do I monkey with now?

I've already uncommented the usb printer line in rc.modules and rebooted...

Googled and googled today, found lots of people with similar problems, but no solutions. One thread on the Linux Mint forums suggested upgrading the kernel to fix the connectivity issue. Is it possible that changing kernels would work in this case? I found a post about compiling and installing the current stable kernel in 13.37...is that worth a shot, or do I run the risk of turning a small problem into a large one?

Here's the link...
https://abi71.wordpress.com/2012/02/...ackware-13-37/

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Vector Linux is great, I ran it on my Inspiron 1100 for a long time because I couldn't get 13.37 to run properly. Im currently using Slackware -current on the old Dell, and it runs fine, if a little bit slow.

I actually have installed the Avasys drivers on the Dell and it sees the printer just fine, prints and everything. Looking more and more like an update on my 64bit system is in order.