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Yesterday, I tried installing the ATI drivers and trashed my 12.1 system. (I "tainted the kernel".) I decided that rather than invest a lot of time troubleshooting (I needed the computer first thing this AM), I'd just do a new install of 12.2 I did the full default install, but preserved my /home partition. Then "slackpkg upgrade-all".
There seems to be a problem with my HP F300 All-in-one printer/scanner. 'LC_ALL=$LANG.UTF8 hp-toolbox' UI indicates that there is a problem communicating with the printer, but the printer works. After turning the printer off and on and then refreshing, 'hp-toolbox' still has a problem communicating with the printer. However, the printer works anyhow.
But, the scanner doesn't work. Neither 'xsane' nor 'kooka' can find the scanner.
In 12.1 both the printer and scanner functions worked. The only thing that I had to do was, after starting the computer, it was necessary to turn the F300 off and then on, the refresh with 'hp-toolbox' UI and everything worked just fine.
I say forget about hp-toolbox, it's buggy s***. Configure the printer using the CUPS interface: http://localhost:631/
Remove any current printers and add a new one. Pick the USB device with the printer serial number in it. After that xsane should work.
If not, it could be a permissions issue and you may want to try xsane as root to check.
Now, for no apparent reason, the print function no longers works from localhost. However, it does automatically print out a test page when I replace cartridges. The scanner function also works. I've tried uninstalling/installing, printing from when logged in as root with no luck, using HP_toolbox, using CUPS, rebooting......
I'm stuck.
The printer shows up. It just won't work. But it's communicating and the scanner function works.
That's strange. As long as it works, it's fine. At one point I did have problems with the HPLIP that came with Slackware, and I had to uninstall that one and install my own, you could try that if the problem reappears.
I think I'm just going to run SW 12.2 without upgrading. This is just my little desktop, not some big server. The only thing I can think of that I did is 'slackpkg upgrade-all'. I wouldn't think that would cause this. But, I 'think' that I chose to update scripts as well.
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