brent Ya seems like the printer gremlins are restless lately
I think Solus is just seeing more traffic and use (which is good) so more things are being seen
Its always a challenge helping ppl remotely cant be an attitude thing for people or one way street
when others are trying to help.
Lot of need for instant gratification out there life just does not work that way.
Axios falls off his soap box--Thud
Axios Its always a challenge helping ppl remotely cant be an attitude thing for people or one way street
when others are trying to help.
Lot of need for instant gratification out there life just does not work that way.Axios falls off his soap box--Thud
plus I think there was a language barrier here. When I knew nothing about Linux (still) and I ran into problems, I was very open to the troubleshooting process, still am. I understand for peripherals and Linux there was no instant gratification---and what you touched upon is KEY: if you want it bad enough you can make it happen. Even if it took days.
I wish more people would do the IP address thing, it has saved my bacon and basically seems foolproof to get a printer seen by Solus (or whatever). No one wants to go that far down the hole! At least with the last few we helped out out in it would confirm something or rule something out.
yeah I also agree the printer gremlins are really whacked out lately
I'm also off the soapbox and off topic!
emmerich
Last ditch effort I tried it and sets connection Do from terminal
Sorry I forgot about the connection setting.
1 lpinfo -v should see something like this for your RX520 (direct usb://ZP/LazerJet%20MFP?serial=42)
so it would look like this ( lpadmin -p Epson_Stylus_Photo_RX520 -v usb://ZP/LazerJet%20MFP?serial=42)
(Example)
2 add that line to the end of this and hit enter (lpadmin -p Epson_Stylus_Photo_RX520 -v )
3 should have changed the connection for the Epson_Stylus_Photo_RX520 printer
we should be connected to printer if all went well.
4 test
If you dont show your printer in 1 then we have deeper issues.
Note This is a follow up providing you didnt change your previous settings in previous post
meant to be done along with it.
Thanks for doing that
emmerich Does lsusb show it connected
Also I would try uninstalling Sane it can cause issues with some printers.
Makes sense why it cant auto detect your printer one Line away from working sheesh
Note Just thinking sudo scanimage -L if it shows addy for printer might be able to use it you said scanner
was working
If this doesnt yield results am out of ideas for moment maybe somebody has another idea.
Axios If this doesnt yield results am out of ideas for moment maybe somebody has another idea.
manually map ip address in printer dialogue is all I got. force solus to see it.
see a lot of this no autodetect lately--I can't even begin to know what that is all about. maybe you are right too many backends (sane) installed?
emmerich Use this command in the previous post and see if it works (It wont dork anything)
lpadmin -p Epson_Stylus_Photo_RX520 -v epson2:libusb:001:005
Something software wise is keeping it from being seen its seeing scanner fine
I think if the above does not work uninstall sane -shutdown-unplug printer
when booted up fully plug printer back in and try to add printer like normal.
What we did was set it up manual but without the connection info it does not know where to send it.
thats why when you print test it prints a loop with those 2 notifications.
I know linux had bug issues with sane keeping printer from detection just process of elimination
If all that fails I am kinda in the dark but at least we know whats happening
and maybe Mods-Dev have a answer.
Its just I dont know all the deep inner workings of linux.
Let us know what happens
Edit- I was just looking you might try setting up a new printer using the pm 750 driver worth a try
I remove sane and reboot and Solus find immediatly the printer and it's work. Thanks a lot.
Now I will re-intall sane because my mother use also the scanner.
But if I reinstall sane the printer does not work :-(
I will try to find another solution for my mother. thanks for your help and patience.
Question for the Mods
Why is sane taking control of his printer should it not be essential separate from printer
even tho its a combo printer.
when he installs sane back his printer stops working.
Thanks
brent Since 2 people have fixed their printer issue by uninstalling sane I am
not sure what approach is good.
But that might be good idea in the meantime to try.
I think TraceyC was asking about status in other thread awhile back so it will prob get looked at.
Kinda in limbo swept enuf grey matter up off the floor..
After researching abit It appears sane issue maybe with udev Nix-os had more detailed about it
arch just alittle.
Seems to affect multi function printers the way they handle stuff different.
I use seperate scanner printer never had any issues.
I am getting a free working mutli color laser printer so all this will be in back my mind
I am not an expert in informatics. But when I try live cd Linux mint the both, printer and scanner work properly. The graphics interface and software used seem the same between Solus and Mint. But maybe it is just for graphic interface. I hope it's can help.
I will continue to use Solus for my personal computer :-)
Thanks again for your patience.
best regards
