CUPS: cannot see printer from various program

[Roger Olofsson]

Laszlo Nagy skrev:
> The printer is Epson Stylus Photo R265. I'm using gutenprint 5 and CUPS. 
> The test page prints well from CUPS. I can also print images and web 
> pages from firefox, because the "CUPS/R265" printer can be selected in 
> the print dialog of firefox.
> 
> However, when I open an image from eog (eye of gnome), the only printer 
> destination I can choose is "LPR". Which is bad, because this is a 
> printer server with diskless clients, and the users must be able to 
> select print options from the GUI.
> 
> The system is FreeBSD 7.0. My girlfriend had the same problem with 
> Ubuntu before, but not with kiwi, so it might not be related to FreeBSD.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>   Laci
> 
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Hello Laszlo,

You might want to add the following lines to /etc/make.conf

CUPS_OVERWRITE_BASE=yes
NO_LPR=yes
WITH_CUPS=yes

And rebuild the application you want to print from.

(The above was found on the excellent guide at 
http://www.math.colostate.edu/~reinholz/freebsd/)

Greetings

/Roger