[opensuse] 13.1 installer bug - printer selection list is empty until hplip drivers installed
All, This is one issue I would like somebody to confirm on the next 13.1 install. (*automatic configuration UNCHECKED*). When you get to printer configuration, the default is to load the foomatic and gs printer drivers, but not automatically install the hplip package. (this is smart, many of the foomatic postscript drivers are more feature rich than the hplip set) However, what I got to this point and used the Connection Wizard to locate and test my CUPS ipp Laserjet4, there were *no* printers available in the printer selection list. I tried several times with multiple search criteria to get the list to display *anything* but no matter what I did, no printers would display in the printer selection list. I have installed with foomatic postscript drivers many, many and know for a fact that the Laserjet 4 driver exists in that package. But despite a number of searches nothing would display. I mean nothing, not a single enter in the printer selection list for any manufacturer at all. So I finally relented and installed the hplip package and went back through the Connection Wizard process to locate/test the connection to my CUPS ipp Laserjet4. Then magically *all* printer drivers appeared in the printer selection list. Including the *foomatic postscript, gs and hplip* drivers. So somewhere in the printer config dialog there is a bug that prevents the printer selection list from displaying printers from the foomatic package until the hplip package is installed. Once the hplip package installed the printer config/test print process completed successfully (using the foomatic driver). I need somebody to test/confirm this issue on their next install. *NOTE:* my install was done using manual configuration (unchecked the auto-configuration box at the beginning). I do a traditional install, with traditional root account (basically you flip all the default checks so I receive system mail, I don't use an admin account, and no auto-login) If this issue can be duplicated. I'll file the bug, but I want to make sure it wasn't some one-off event. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 16/07/14 05:07, David C. Rankin wrote:
All,
This is one issue I would like somebody to confirm on the next 13.1 install. (*automatic configuration UNCHECKED*). When you get to printer configuration, the default is to load the foomatic and gs printer drivers, but not automatically install the hplip package. (this is smart, many of the foomatic postscript drivers are more feature rich than the hplip set)
However, what I got to this point and used the Connection Wizard to locate and test my CUPS ipp Laserjet4, there were *no* printers available in the printer selection list. I tried several times with multiple search criteria to get the list to display *anything* but no matter what I did, no printers would display in the printer selection list.
I have installed with foomatic postscript drivers many, many and know for a fact that the Laserjet 4 driver exists in that package. But despite a number of searches nothing would display. I mean nothing, not a single enter in the printer selection list for any manufacturer at all.
So I finally relented and installed the hplip package and went back through the Connection Wizard process to locate/test the connection to my CUPS ipp Laserjet4. Then magically *all* printer drivers appeared in the printer selection list. Including the *foomatic postscript, gs and hplip* drivers.
So somewhere in the printer config dialog there is a bug that prevents the printer selection list from displaying printers from the foomatic package until the hplip package is installed. Once the hplip package installed the printer config/test print process completed successfully (using the foomatic driver). I need somebody to test/confirm this issue on their next install.
*NOTE:* my install was done using manual configuration (unchecked the auto-configuration box at the beginning). I do a traditional install, with traditional root account (basically you flip all the default checks so I receive system mail, I don't use an admin account, and no auto-login) If this issue can be duplicated. I'll file the bug, but I want to make sure it wasn't some one-off event.
Will check what you stated at my next new install because I do not do what you are doing namely, trying to configure the printer during the actual installation process. From past experience, I configure the SOUND and the PRINTER *after* the system is installed when I use YaST to do the configuring. And using YaST I find that the driver for my HP printer is shown and I am 'asked' if I want to change it - which I believe I do by selecting hplib. The above is my recollection but I will double check this the next time I install. BC -- Using openSUSE 13.1, KDE 4.13.3 & kernel 3.15.5-1 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX660 GPU -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 07/16/2014 01:02 AM, Basil Chupin wrote:
Will check what you stated at my next new install because I do not do what you are doing namely, trying to configure the printer during the actual installation process.
From past experience, I configure the SOUND and the PRINTER *after* the system is installed when I use YaST to do the configuring. And using YaST I find that the driver for my HP printer is shown and I am 'asked' if I want to change it - which I believe I do by selecting hplib.
The above is my recollection but I will double check this the next time I install.
BC
I was surprised to see the printer config during install, but there is no reason it shouldn't be there. The 'Connection Wizard' worked flawlessly, finding the remote Laserjet via ipp. After the hplip mess, the printer confirmation/print test page also worked flawlessly and my test page: Laserjet4:YaST2testprint@alchemy.3111skyline.com printed perfectly. The only thing printer install fails to do that it should do is install */etc/papersize* with the papersize contained as a single-line (e.g.: letter, A4,..). Whether during install/post-install, it was just nice to have a printer config that worked and didn't require hacking cups.conf :) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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