topic title: [SOLVED] Printer Setup problem
Posts: 153
andfree
Joined: 16 Jan 2016
#1
antiX Control Center => Setup a Printer => Add => KONICA MINOLTA magicolor 4650 (connected to a USB port) => Forward.

A"Searching for drivers" window appears for a while, then it disappears and nothing else.
Last edited by andfree on 28 Jun 2017, 14:50, edited 5 times in total.
Posts: 119
wildstar84
Joined: 31 May 2014
#2
Sounds like you may need to download a linux driver for it:
========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"http://www.konicasupport.com/2016/04/konica-minolta-magicolor-4650en-driver-download.html"
linktext was:"http://www.konicasupport.com/2016/04/ko ... nload.html"
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(I checked linuxprinting.org first and that particular printer model's not listed).
Did you run"lsusb" and see if the kernel sees it?
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andfree
Joined: 16 Jan 2016
#3
wildstar84 wrote:Sounds like you may need to download a linux driver for it:
========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"http://www.konicasupport.com/2016/04/konica-minolta-magicolor-4650en-driver-download.html"
linktext was:"http://www.konicasupport.com/2016/04/ko ... nload.html"
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I followed the link for linux, but I don't see any driver, only documentation.
wildstar84 wrote:Did you run"lsusb" and see if the kernel sees it?

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$ lsusb
Bus 004 Device 003: ID 132b:2072 Konica Minolta
In the past, I have problem to get this printer work with ubuntu, too. This had been solved by installing M4650opn.ppd driver I had found
========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"http://printer.konicaminolta.com/support/current_printers/mc4650_sup.htm#Drivers"
linktext was:"here"
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. But now, this link doesn't work for me and I can't find this driver.
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rokytnji
Joined: 20 Feb 2009
#4

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url was:"https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2279416"
linktext was:"https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2279416"
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Snip off printer info in code tags

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dmesg | tail

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dmesg | grep firmware

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dmesg | grep Konica
look for anything close to driver for Konica

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lsmod

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uname -r
I will be sorta unavailable during this weekend.
Here is Konicas site

========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"http://www.biz.konicaminolta.com/download/"
linktext was:"http://www.biz.konicaminolta.com/download/"
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Good luck locating your printer driver.
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andfree
Joined: 16 Jan 2016
#5
Thanks for reply.
rokytnji wrote:Snip off printer info in code tags
See the attachment.
rokytnji wrote:Here is Konicas site

========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"http://www.biz.konicaminolta.com/download/"
linktext was:"http://www.biz.konicaminolta.com/download/"
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I still don't see any driver for linux there.
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wildstar84
Joined: 31 May 2014
#6
Can't find the PPD file, eh? I ran into this years ago, here's my notes on how I got the PPD file:

I recently purchased a Lexmark C510 color laser printer. This printer speaks Postscript III and PCL5c. I first verified at the store that it worked with Linux, using the"generic postscript printer" setup. I confidently assumed that I could later download or fetch a PPD file for this printer from the install CD, NOPE¡ So, I googled the web, NOPE - not there either! The PPD file would be specific to this model of printer & would allow one to access printer-specific features via software. Anyway, I took the path of last resort - I booted up my Windows-2000 partition - argh¡ - & installed it via the CD, and sure enough, as I suspected, there WAS a PPD file bundled up in their install binary! I then saved the generic PPD file in / etc /cups/ppd/, copied this file from Windows to my Linux partition at / etc /cups/ppd/, and tested it out, Booyah! Works great! The key is setting up the printer first as a"generic postscript" printer, then adding the PPD file, since it does NOT appear in the list of makes and models you can select from the list. BTW, since I could NOT find this PPD file on the CD, the web, Lexmark's website or ftp drivers site, AND tech support never heard of PPD files; and since it is freely distributable unmodified, I have posted this file on my website
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andfree
Joined: 16 Jan 2016
#7
I haven't thought the CD after so many years! PPD file is there! Now I have copied it into / etc /cups/ppd/. But I don't find how to set up the printer as a"generic postscript" printer. When I click"add" at the"Print Settings - localhost", I have only three choices:"LPT (Parallel Port)","Enter URL","Network Printer". If I connect the printer via USB, there's also the"Konica Minolta" option leading to the problematic"Search for Drivers" disappearing window I wrote about at my first post.
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wildstar84
Joined: 31 May 2014
#8
Well, I'm grasping for straws now -- I don't even have/use the Antix Control Center since I use a completely different windowmanager & a ton of custom setup. I use the following pgm for printer setup: /usr/bin/system-config-printer. You might try that too. I'm thinking that it needs to be run as sudo. I googled up the specs: PCL 6, PostScript 3, also supports network connectivity, so if you can't get USB to work, I'd try that. Is there a"Setup a Printer => Add => Generic Postscript Printer|PCL6 printer... option" in setup? I revisited the downloads url and yes, you can download drivers from a"here" link at the bottom of the page (for Windows### and MacOS### but NOT Linux), that tells me that there is no Linux"driver" just a PPD and therefore you shouldn't need any special"driver" for it, just generic Postscript or PCL6 (and Linux DOES recognize it as a USB printer (lsusb)), so if you can get it installed in CUPS, you should be good to go (It looks like a very nice little open-standards Color Laser that can be made to work - the key being that it supports Postscript, w/PCL6 as a bonus)! How looooooong did you wait after the window disappeared? See if it added it anyway in / etc /cups/printers.conf. You might try removing the PPD file first (maybe that's confusing CUPS somehow), install as"Generic Postscript", then AFTER setting up, copy the PPD file back (it will use it then - as I pointed out in my prev. post). Otherwise, sorry, but IDK. __{{emoticon}}__
Posts: 153
andfree
Joined: 16 Jan 2016
#9
Well, I don't know if I used the correct command:

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$ sudo /usr/bin/system-config-printer

** (system-config-printer.py:7116): WARNING **: Error retrieving accessibility bus address: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.a11y.Bus was not provided by any .service files
In spite of the error message,"Print Settings - localhost" window opened (the same that opens after"antiX Control Center => Setup a Printer"

After"Add", there's no a"Generic Postscript Printer|PCL6 printer" option, there are only the options I refer to at my previous post. When I choose"Konica Minolta" option, the"Searching for Drivers" window appears for a few seconds, disappears and reappears instantly, and then disappears forever. The terminal display during this:

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No ID match for device usb://KONICA%20MINOLTA/magicolor%204650?serial=00C9D2B8:
MFG:KONICA MINOLTA;MDL:magicolor 4650;CMD:PS,Postscript,PCL,KMBT PDF;
No ID match for device usb://KONICA%20MINOLTA/magicolor%204650?serial=00C9D2B8:
MFG:KONICA MINOLTA;MDL:magicolor 4650;CMD:PS,Postscript,PCL,KMBT PDF;
[xcb] Unknown request in queue while dequeuing
[xcb] Most likely this is a multi-threaded client and XInitThreads has not been called
[xcb] Aborting, sorry about that.
python: ../../src/xcb_io.c:179: dequeue_pending_request: Assertion `!xcb_xlib_unknown_req_in_deq' failed.
Removing PPD file didn't help.
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rokytnji
Joined: 20 Feb 2009
#10
See the attachment.

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$ dmesg | tail
[ 1484.820071] usb 3-3: new high-speed USB device number 3 using ehci-pci
[ 1484.958239] usb 3-3: New USB device found, idVendor=132b, idProduct=2072
[ 1484.958247] usb 3-3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[ 1484.958250] usb 3-3: Product: KONICA MINOLTA magicolor 4650
[ 1484.958254] usb 3-3: Manufacturer: KONICA MINOLTA
[ 1484.958257] usb 3-3: SerialNumber: 00C9D2B8
[ 1485.000782] usblp 3-3:1.0: usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 3 if 0 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x132B pid 0x2072
[ 1485.000849] usbcore: registered new interface driver usblp
[ 1530.113661] usblp0: removed
[ 1530.131222] usblp 3-3:1.0: usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 3 if 0 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x132B pid 0x2072

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$ lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
usblp                   9758  0 
bnep                    8423  2 
bluetooth             276056  5 bnep
nfsd                  232952  2 
auth_rpcgss            39902  1 nfsd
nfs_acl                 2187  1 nfsd
nfs                   132524  0 
lockd                  64832  2 nfs,nfsd
grace                   1294  2 nfsd,lockd
fscache                30383  1 nfs
sunrpc                187697  6 nfs,nfsd,auth_rpcgss,lockd,nfs_acl
af_packet              25566  2 
ip6t_REJECT             1448  1 
nf_reject_ipv6          1987  1 ip6t_REJECT
nf_log_ipv6             4154  5 
xt_hl                    917  6 
ip6t_rt                 1884  3 
nf_conntrack_ipv6       6383  7 
nf_defrag_ipv6         13346  1 nf_conntrack_ipv6
ipt_REJECT              1189  1 
nf_reject_ipv4          1727  1 ipt_REJECT
nf_log_ipv4             3833  5 
nf_log_common           2574  2 nf_log_ipv4,nf_log_ipv6
xt_LOG                   955  10 
xt_limit                1287  13 
xt_tcpudp               1875  18 
xt_addrtype             2353  4 
nf_conntrack_ipv4       6000  7 
nf_defrag_ipv4          1079  1 nf_conntrack_ipv4
xt_conntrack            2837  14 
ip6table_filter          936  1 
ip6_tables              9907  1 ip6table_filter
nf_conntrack_netbios_ns      729  0 
nf_conntrack_broadcast      921  1 nf_conntrack_netbios_ns
nf_nat_ftp              1440  0 
nf_nat                 10284  1 nf_nat_ftp
nf_conntrack_ftp        5559  1 nf_nat_ftp
nf_conntrack           59844  8 nf_nat_ftp,nf_conntrack_netbios_ns,nf_nat,xt_conntrack,nf_conntrack_broadcast,nf_conntrack_ftp,nf_conntrack_ipv4,nf_conntrack_ipv6
iptable_filter           996  1 
ip_tables               9523  1 iptable_filter
x_tables               10516  13 ip6table_filter,xt_hl,ip_tables,xt_tcpudp,xt_limit,xt_conntrack,xt_LOG,iptable_filter,ip6t_rt,ipt_REJECT,ip6_tables,xt_addrtype,ip6t_REJECT
lp                      7391  0 
dm_crypt               15419  0 
dm_mod                 74417  1 dm_crypt
ppdev                   4750  0 
iTCO_wdt                4439  0 
iTCO_vendor_support     1417  1 iTCO_wdt
pcspkr                  1423  0 
snd_intel8x0           24105  0 
snd_intel8x0m           9412  0 
pcmcia                 29880  0 
evdev                   8630  13 
joydev                  7851  0 
yenta_socket           18624  0 
nouveau              1136884  2 
snd_ac97_codec         88485  2 snd_intel8x0,snd_intel8x0m
snd_pcm                66462  3 snd_ac97_codec,snd_intel8x0,snd_intel8x0m
snd_timer              16033  1 snd_pcm
serio_raw               3933  0 
mxm_wmi                 1103  1 nouveau
snd                    45296  5 snd_ac97_codec,snd_intel8x0,snd_timer,snd_pcm,snd_intel8x0m
soundcore               4259  1 snd
ac97_bus                 842  1 snd_ac97_codec
pcmcia_rsrc             7077  1 yenta_socket
pcmcia_core             9971  3 pcmcia,pcmcia_rsrc,yenta_socket
ttm                    61713  1 nouveau
drm_kms_helper         72400  1 nouveau
drm                   214990  5 ttm,drm_kms_helper,nouveau
video                  10688  1 nouveau
toshiba_acpi           24484  0 
sparse_keymap           2518  1 toshiba_acpi
rfkill                 12451  3 toshiba_acpi,bluetooth
battery                 6992  0 
parport_pc             26894  1 
wmi                     6939  3 toshiba_acpi,mxm_wmi,nouveau
i2c_algo_bit            4544  1 nouveau
toshiba_bluetooth       1597  0 
ac                      2739  0 
parport                25625  3 lp,ppdev,parport_pc
button                  3465  1 nouveau
lpc_ich                12420  0 
intel_agp               8748  1 
intel_gtt               9884  1 intel_agp
rng_core                4366  0 
acpi_cpufreq            5975  0 
processor              20201  2 acpi_cpufreq
hid_generic              749  0 
btrfs                 835370  0 
xor                    17684  1 btrfs
raid6_pq               88807  1 btrfs
psmouse                94211  0 
sg                     20602  0 
firewire_ohci          28414  0 
8139too                18378  0 
8139cp                 17008  0 
mii                     3407  2 8139cp,8139too
firewire_core          45658  1 firewire_ohci
ehci_pci                3211  0 
uhci_hcd               21228  0 
ehci_hcd               40982  1 ehci_pci
fan                     2874  0 
thermal                 6711  0 

$ uname -r
4.0.5-antix.3-486-smp
grepping firmware showed no needed missing firmware.

Looks like the"usblp" driver is what the kernel is supplying for the printer driver.
Then it removes it for what ever reason. I don't know why.
Have you tried as root in terminal

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modprobe -v usblp
then run the printer setup and see if it finds a driver then?

I'm just guessing here though.
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andfree
Joined: 16 Jan 2016
#11
rokytnji wrote: Have you tried as root in terminal

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modprobe -v usblp

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$ sudo modprobe -v usblp
[sudo] password for..... 
insmod /lib/modules/4.0.5-antix.3-486-smp/kernel/drivers/usb/class/usblp.ko
rokytnji wrote: then run the printer setup and see if it finds a driver then?
It does not. I see no difference:

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No ID match for device usb://KONICA%20MINOLTA/magicolor%204650?serial=00C9D2B8:
MFG:KONICA MINOLTA;MDL:magicolor 4650;CMD:PS,Postscript,PCL,KMBT PDF;
No ID match for device usb://KONICA%20MINOLTA/magicolor%204650?serial=00C9D2B8:
MFG:KONICA MINOLTA;MDL:magicolor 4650;CMD:PS,Postscript,PCL,KMBT PDF;
[xcb] Unknown request in queue while dequeuing
[xcb] Most likely this is a multi-threaded client and XInitThreads has not been called
[xcb] Aborting, sorry about that.
python: ../../src/xcb_io.c:179: dequeue_pending_request: Assertion `!xcb_xlib_unknown_req_in_deq' failed.
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rokytnji
Joined: 20 Feb 2009
#12
Like I said. I was just guessing. Maybe this printer is now a case for using wine and a windows driver.
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andfree
Joined: 16 Jan 2016
#13
I also tried to configure it as a network printer, providing it the PPD file, but when asking it to print the test-page:

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Printer State: Processing - Unable to locate printer"MC4650-******.local".
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andfree
Joined: 16 Jan 2016
#14
rokytnji wrote:Maybe this printer is now a case for using wine and a windows driver.
But how to provide it this driver? USB ("Konica Minolta") option at"Print Settings - localhost" does not let me provide it any driver, it only leads to the disappearing"Searching for Drivers" window.
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rokytnji
Joined: 20 Feb 2009
#15

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url was:"https://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=wine+site%3Aantix.freeforums.org&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8"
linktext was:"Link"
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Sorry. It is the best I can do this late in the evening for me.