Printer Autodetection

[brendan powers]

Hi,
Thanks for the quick response. I did not know that hal did this as am
using a version of hal that is quite out of date (0.4.7). As for the
foomatic databse, it has autodetect information that does mach the fdi
files for some printers, i'm not sure how many printers have that
information though. If the FDI file database is slow, would it be
possible to use some sort of collout to detect the printer? I think it
would be very usefull for hal to provide this information if possible.
This way more distrobutions could make use of the code. As for
parralel printers, in my software i checked for them once at bootup,
this is a fairly simple way to allow support for printers without
polling.