[Foomatic] Using usb IDs for autodetection
Grant Taylor
gtaylor+foodev_bahdh041304 at picante.com
Tue Apr 13 12:41:02 PDT 2004
Johannes Meixner <jsmeix at suse.de> writes:
> Up to now I didn't have one single customer question what to do
> when a printer was listed but not autodetected or autoconfigured
> but there are many customer questions what to do when a printer is
> not listed.
Do *I* count?
I plugged in a printer yesterday, and it took four restarts of cupsd
across three systems, and a close and restart of kprinter itself,
before the stupid thing would show up in the kprinter dialog. Good
thing it wasn't my wife puttering with it.
And this is for an already configured printer. If it had been a
non-configured printer, I fail to see how anything would even be able
to pop up a dialog as you describe; I run X remotely to a server in
the basement.
I'd very much prefer to be able to plug printers in at random and have
the universe just catch on. I'd especially prefer if this could be
implemented in a spooler-independant way; there's no reason hosts
can't provide LPD, IPP, or even TCP/9100-style service and have that
magically be picked up network-wide via Rendezvous or what have you.
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