Printing does work
Kai Hendry
Finally found some time to have a good look (AGAIN) at printing. And
it seriously works for me in 4.7 and dailies. I think most of you must
have a hard time setting up a browsable printing server with CUPS,
with the correct permissions.
I added some extra info on http://webconverger.org/printing/ about
cups-pdf, which allows you to test your printing serving without a
printer.
In other news in the dailies I've added ACPI power down event support,
because I've received complaints that holding down the power button
for 5+ seconds was too hard. Now you press the button and it
needlessly unmounts the read only system and then prompts you to hit
the ENTER key (which can be hidden behind splashy). Is this really
better? :) I don't think so.
Also added a time synchronisation feature with ntpdate to avoid
Firefox's invalid certificate on machines with bad clocks.
Debian Installer for installing Webconverger to the hard drive is
working again *roughly* for ISO in my latest test build. Do you rely
on hard drive installs of Webconverger? Please let me know. I need
encouragement. :)
http://build.webconverger.org/
I've also setup a twitter account for Webconverger ONLY tweets:
http://twitter.com/webconverger
Please follow. :-)
Kind regards,
Guttorm Flatabø
Finally found some time to have a good look (AGAIN) at printing. And
it seriously works for me in 4.7 and dailies. I think most of you must
I am really sorry that I didn't realize this before: Since Ubuntu makes it so easy to install printers shared by windows servers (and even on LPD/LPR, I think) with 'system-config-printer' and since I didn't know CUPS is so good at its own printer serving with auto discovery I thought Webconverger could do more magic than seems to be available for any Linux distro.
With 'system-config-printer' in Ubuntu it is so easy to find and configure Windows/Samba(/LPD) printers that I thought the auto discovery of printers in Webconverger could do this automagically. It is obviously possible to make a utility that would do this, and it is supposedly done in Mac OS X. But I realize now that only CUPS printers are discovered automatically.
I have tried to edit the printing page on the wiki accordingly. As I understand it, printers served through the Internet Printing Protocol and configured correctly should be discovered, as well as compatible USB printers. Locally connected printers not using USB (lpt) are not automagically configured, nor are any other network printers. (I have tested a supported HP printer connected locally on the parallel port, it didnt autoconfigure, but from your video it seems USB connected printers do autoconfigure).
I added some extra info on http://webconverger.org/printing/ about
cups-pdf, which allows you to test your printing serving without a
printer.
I tried it and it worked like a charm on first try.
In other news in the dailies I've added ACPI power down event support,
because I've received complaints that holding down the power button
for 5+ seconds was too hard. Now you press the button and it
needlessly unmounts the read only system and then prompts you to hit
the ENTER key (which can be hidden behind splashy). Is this really
better? :) I don't think so.
The problem is solved (at least from my testing on one laptop just now) by adding the boot option 'quickreboot'.
Most people ("the users") do not know that holding in the power button for 6+ seconds will trigger a hard shutdown. They thus have to be told, and then they will forget. I think this is an improvement.
Coupled with ntpdate this soft shutdown may corrupt the hardware clock of computers using Windows in addition to Webconverger, because it saves the hardware clock (BIOS) in UTC time. It looks like this behaviour can be disabled in /etc/init.d/hwclock.sh though :)
Also added a time synchronisation feature with ntpdate to avoid
Firefox's invalid certificate on machines with bad clocks.
Thanks for all your efforts! I hope my input helps.
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Guttorm Flatabø
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