USB printing problem with Samsung ML-1430

dl1vr8r · n00b Joined: 07 Mar 2003 Posts: 39 Location: SLC

I have a Samsung ML-1430 that I set up under Linux a couple of weeks ago. I printed a few things with it, everything was fine. Now when I try to print something, it just doesn't. No error message, no nothing. Nothing happens at all. I haven't recompiled my kernel or done anything out of the ordinary since I installed the printer and it was working.

Details:
gentoo-sources 2.4.20-r1
usb is compiled into the kernel, usb printing loaded as module 'printer'
cups is installed and running
latest drivers and PPD from Samsung
printer shows up as /dev/usb/lp0

if I do $cat test.txt > /dev/usb/lp0 the printer activates and warms up, but doesn't print anything. If I try to print any other way, (test page, web page, etc.) nothing happens at all.

I booted back into Windows thinking maybe it was a hardware problem but the printer worked just fine windows.

I've read the cups docs, linuxprinting.org FAQs, searched the forums, etc. I haven't found anything that helps so far.

At first I thought it was a driver problem, but it installs just fine and my printer is visible via the CUPS web interface and the Samsung driver interface. Then I thought it was a usb problem, but the printer shows up and activates if touched.

I'm out of ideas. Help?

dl1vr8r · n00b Joined: 07 Mar 2003 Posts: 39 Location: SLC

No responses, so I'll just post my progress on figuring this thing out with hopes that it will solve my problem and help somebody else out in the future.

This is the last entry from /var/log/cups/error_log:

dl1vr8r · n00b Joined: 07 Mar 2003 Posts: 39 Location: SLC

OK, I unemerged and re-emerged everything. Now the printer at least warms up when I try to print something, but still no output. When I send something to the printer, the "data" light blinks once and that's it. I get the same "Media tray empty" message in /var/log/cups/error_log.

This is really starting to piss me off, especially considering that it was working at one point, but now it's not. This is too much like being back on windows again (except that the damn thing actually works in windows).

darkphoenix16 · Posted: Tue May 13, 2003 12:35 am Post subject:

Hi, did you every get this worked out? Im having the same problem

fumtu99 · n00b Joined: 05 Sep 2002 Posts: 59

Hi!

If you're interested, I posted a really long reply on another thread (the 20th one, currently at the bottom of the page) for a way of doing this that doesn't use the Samsung drivers, ppd files, etc. at all - the binaries there would not work for me, as is described in that posting and the slightly shorter one above it. Are you using GCC 3.2.2? Do you have an older version of it on your machine? I'm wondering if that's why it wouldn't work for me; the machine I put the printer on is a new one, with a brand new, fresh install of Gentoo1.4 on it, and I suspect that the Samsung binaries might be trying to link to GCC-2.9.95-compiled libraries. (This might be something that Samsung could fix if they built the binaries statically, but I can't tell that by looking at them. Well, maybe I could, if I knew what I was doing better...) At any rate, looking at this (and/or maybe changing your LogLevel to "debug" in your /etc/cups/cupsd.conf file, then doing a "/etc/init.d/cupsd restart", which will cause CUPS to put a lot more informative error messages into your /var/log/cups/error_log (I Think that's the name) file that you can look at after trying to print something with the printer) might give you some ideas about what can be done to get it to work again. If between the time you last printed on it and now you did an "emerge world -update", and it wiped out a 2.9.95-compiled library (since it didn't see any dependencies in your Gentoo install - the Samsung stuff won't show up there) that your driver depended on, it might produce the effect that you describe.

Hey, for some reason, I end up doing world updates pretty often, and it's not THAT uncommon (especially on my old machine, which has had Gentoo on it from version 1.2, IIRC) for some program that was working right before to stop working until I rebuild it - as a matter of fact, that happened to me recently with openbox - I think that I may have to unmerge it and emerge it again, with a configuration option set, to get back fonts in my pulldown menus - right now they're REALLY small... (Good thing I have some other window managers to play around with!) Anyways, the URL for the other thread is:

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=25403

See if that helps you out...

James

agentDMT · n00b Joined: 30 Mar 2004 Posts: 1 Location: TX

I had the same problem with my Samsung ML-1430. Basically what i did was unemerged cups and foomatic and then emerged ghostscript and then emerged gimp-print. I go back and then I could print. I havent fully tested it out but the test page works now. How about that!
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