Re: [tlug] Printer Not Responding

[Dave M G <martin@example.com>]

Scott, Stephen,

Thank you for helping.

I used Stephen's suggestion for a command:
dave@example.com:~$ sudo G_SLICE=always-malloc /usr/bin/printconf
Password:
sudo: G_SLICE=always-malloc: command not found
... but as you can see, the result was not very helpful.

I'm a little confused as to what steps I should be attempting next. I 
know Stephen feels I should be using open source drivers, but I can't 
find open source drivers for my model. Most web pages that I look at 
direct me to the one that I used originally to install the printer, 
which in turn refers to Canon's drivers.

That web page, again, is this one:
http://www.techbuilder.org/recipes/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=167600449&printableArticle=true

And while I appreciate the logic behind Stephen's advocacy of open 
source drivers, my suspicions are still that Dapper has in some way 
changed its handling of USB. This is because the printer was working 
without flaw in Ubuntu 5.10.

In any case, regardless of my suspicions, what is the next step for me 
to attack this problem?

--
Dave M G