Patriot ok then I have no way of testing cups because the only printer I have is on my wifes pc, my other 2 pc's don't have a printer, So I'll leave it in your hands, when you figure out the Permissions problem could you please post it in the 4.2 alpha2 section so we could add it to the next release, most of the time we split certain packages into 2 sections, The main release and Devx.sfs release I'm not sure if cups dev files get placed in the DevX of does it just get tossed aside. Dev files increase packages by a large amount sometimes and most of the time they aren't needed. Unless they are needed for other compiling needs, thats why I was wondering about cups dev files, Are they needed to compile gutenprint? We'll need probably the latest GutenPrint also to match up, This is where it gets tricky you have to enable a few options like the /usr/ as default directory and enable ppd, but it it creates locales, those should be made into another package, to keep the main release down in size.Patriot wrote:Sure ttuuxxx, I'll quietly see how's the progress over there on the 4.2alpha and see what I can do ...
I've also tested your cups1.4b2 pet ... It exhibits the same problem for lpt printing ... It'll work just fine and dandy on first boot LiveCD/frugal/full ... After a saved session, it'll also work on first lpt print or first lpt printer access ... Try adding it again ... the lpt port now no longer appears ... try print again and we'll get a /dev/lp0 permission denied ... A reboot will give lpt access also for the first time ... then it repeats again ...
(I do not have usb printer to test ... so usb printer tests will have to wait until sometime next week ...)
So, it is not a cups issue now, it's puppy's issue ... It's in 4.1.x & 4.2alpha ... They all have the same backbone structure, so I'll have to see what else need's changing ... All these pesky little things can annoy users and users don't like to be annoyed by stuffs that just works everywhere else ...
Rgds
Hope that helps
If its too much to ask just say so and I'll continue on with it, Just that I have so much already in the works, It makes it hard to focus on one task that I can't even fully test,lol
ttuuxxx
don't worry about gutenprint I already made it up, I'm not sure how Barry made his previous version work, they didn't have the ppd files included. so it was less than 2MB my version has 1429 ppd files and makes the package 13MB ouch!!
ttuuxxx
http://www.puppylinux.asia/tpp/ttuuxxx/ ... 3-i386.pet
http://www.puppylinux.asia/tpp/ttuuxxx/ ... le-Doc.pet