Found that my harddrive of five years was failing last Friday evening. Was
able to save all of /home, but the drive died too soon to redeem anything
more. So, had to install the system anew. Also, I should mention I've sent
the last two days - yes, *days* - scouring the Web and have found no
workable solutions.

Set up the kernel in advance of doing anything mentioned below.

Some symptoms:
After emerging KDE, I added nvidia drivers yet udev didn't produce the
needed /dev/nvidia* nodes. So, I made the nodes and
chmod 0666 /dev/nvidia*, chown root /dev/nvidia* - xorg is pleased.

This is where I'm stuck;

1) If a user accesses a CD-ROM, a different user cannot eject or umount it
- although the other user is logged out, they remain the owner.

2) Next, went through the *entire* Gentoo printer guide (more then once) for
parallel port printing. Have tried all 9 differrent BIOS setting for the
LPT without success. There are queued jobs and, after stopping and
re-starting cupsd, the printer goes from:

Description: HP_3820
Location: home
Printer State: processing, accepting jobs.
"CUPS v1.1.23 is ready to print."
Device URI: parallel:/dev/lp0

to this in 30 seconds (never to recover)

Description: HP_3820
Location: home
Printer State: processing, accepting jobs.
"Printer not connected; will retry in 30 seconds..."
Device URI: parallel:/dev/lp0

Additional info:

uname
Linux localhost 2.6.13-gentoo-r3

modprobe lp
FATAL: Module lp not found.

dmesg | grep -i print
parport0: Printer, HEWLETT-PACKARD DESKJET 3820

/etc/cups/printers.conf
# Printer configuration file for CUPS v1.1.23
# Written by cupsd on Mon Oct 10 21:54:49 2005
<DefaultPrinter HP_3820>
Info HP_3820
Location home
DeviceURI parallel:/dev/lp0
State Idle
Accepting Yes
JobSheets none none
QuotaPeriod 0
PageLimit 0
KLimit 0
</Printer>

tail /var/log/cups/error_log
I [10/Oct/2005:21:54:30 -0700] Started
filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstoraster (PID 8471) for job 7.
I [10/Oct/2005:21:54:30 -0700] Started
filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/rastertohp (PID 8473) for job 7.
I [10/Oct/2005:21:54:30 -0700] Started
backend /usr/lib/cups/backend/parallel (PID 8474) for job 7.
I [10/Oct/2005:21:54:33 -0700] Started
"/usr/lib/cups/cgi-bin/jobs.cgi" (pid=8479)
I [10/Oct/2005:21:54:36 -0700] Started
"/usr/lib/cups/cgi-bin/printers.cgi" (pid=8486)
I [10/Oct/2005:21:54:49 -0700] Started
"/usr/lib/cups/cgi-bin/admin.cgi" (pid=8489)
I [10/Oct/2005:21:54:49 -0700] Saving printers.conf...
I [10/Oct/2005:21:54:49 -0700] Saving classes.conf...
I [10/Oct/2005:21:54:49 -0700] Default destination set to 'HP_3820' by
'root'.
I [10/Oct/2005:21:55:03 -0700] Started
"/usr/lib/cups/cgi-bin/printers.cgi" (pid=8496)

qpkg -I -v udev
sys-fs/udev-068-r1 *

/etc/make.conf
USE="symlink -gnome gtk qt kde alsa cdr cups foomatic ppds opengl truetype"

Thank you for your time !
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