So on another machine (my Dad’s to be exact) after an upgrade to Karmic, both sound and printing were broken.
I fixed the printing issue last night, which was truly strange. The original printer was still there (as I would expect) and could be seen in the GNOME print manager. The problem was that it just wouldn’t print at all. Taking a closer look, for some reason the driver had been reset to “Alps MD-1000” even though it’s a Samsung.
Changing the driver to anything else and saving the changes did not actually change the driver – it went straight back to “Alps MD-1000.” Adding a new printer resulted in the same problem.
The fix was to log into the CUPS server directly (http://localhost:631) and from here I was able to select the right driver – and it stuck. It could now print correctly.
Going back to the GNOME print manager still shows the driver as being the “Alps MD-1000” which is just wrong.
So I’m not sure why GNOME print manager is broken, but if I configure the printer directly with CUPS it works.
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Karmic Koala Kubuntu seems to be fine here. Driving my Epson CX5500 printer/scanner flawlessly from a free desktop machine (256MB/30GB).
Have you tried hitting the CUPS service directly?
Sorry, RTFM, you have.
I can have a hack at the KDE print config if you like?
Hey Leon,
This was an upgrade from Jaunty, I’m not sure whether a fresh install would work correctly (I’m guessing it might).
Thanks for the offer, but no need to hack at the KDE print config because it was a GNOME related thing 🙂 In fact, I guess that I could install KDE print manager and test to see if it’s GNOME only, or some wider problem. Either way the problem is solved for now thanks to the CUPS server 🙂
-c
Well… go ahead, then!
Where’s your sense of masoch^H^H^Hadventure? (-:
Haha. I’m too old for this.. 😉