[Ubuntu Wiki] Update of "DebuggingPrintingProblems" by till-kamppeter

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The "DebuggingPrintingProblems" page has been changed by till-kamppeter:
http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingPrintingProblems?action=diff&rev1=63&rev2=64

  Starting with Intrepid the '''cupsys''' package has been renamed to '''cups'''.  Subsequently, bugs about Intrepid (8.10) and newer releases should be assigned to the '''cups''' package and bug reports about previous releases should be assigned to '''cupsys'''.
  
  = Printer detection =
+ 
+ NOTE: If you have a USB -> Parallel adapter, proceed as for a USB printer.
  
  == USB printer ==
  
@@ -35, +37 @@

   2. Open a terminal/console and check if the lp, ppdev, and parport_pc kernel modules are loaded: <<BR>> {{{$ lsmod | grep lp}}} <<BR>> {{{$ lsmod | grep ppdev}}} <<BR>> {{{$ lsmod | grep parport_pc}}}
   3. Check if the kernel detected the parallel port during bootup: <<BR>> {{{$ dmesg | grep par }}}
   4. Check if the device files of the parallel port(s) are created and have the correct permissions and ownerships: <<BR>> {{{$ ls -l /dev/lp* /dev/parport* }}}
-  5. Check if the printer auto-detection result appears in the kernel's virtual file system: <<BR> {{{$ ls -l /proc/sys/dev/parport/parport*/autoprobe* }}} <<BR>> {{{$ sudo cat /proc/sys/dev/parport/parport*/autoprobe* }}}
+  5. Check if the printer auto-detection result appears in the kernel's virtual file system: <<BR>> {{{$ ls -l /proc/sys/dev/parport/parport*/autoprobe* }}} <<BR>> {{{$ sudo cat /proc/sys/dev/parport/parport*/autoprobe* }}}
   6. Find out if your printer gets detected by CUPS: <<BR>> {{{$ lpinfo -v}}}
   7. Run the parallel port CUPS backend separately, once with standard user privileges and once as root: <<BR>> {{{$ /usr/lib/cups/backend/parallel }}} <<BR>> {{{$ sudo /usr/lib/cups/backend/parallel }}}
   8. Attach the output of the above commands to the bug report.



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