On Monday 12 May 2003 19:36 pm, dep wrote:

greets.

a couple of little peculiarities in 8.2 here, both affecting things i need fairly regularly; i hope somebody here has figured out what i may have missed.

the first is the opera browser. i installed the one which came with 8.2, and it worked but looked awful, in that it did not inherit anti-aliasing for some reason. i upgraded to 6.12 shared, which when it worked looked just great -- but it seldom would start, usually segfaulting on the last line of the opera script. i tried 6.12 static, which just plain looked *weird,* with a combination of anti-aliased and jagged typefaces. i reverted to the shared 6.03, which decided not to run at all. i tried the version shipped with 8.2 again, and now *it* segfaults at start. in each case i rpm -e'd the old one before installing the new. all i'm trying to do here is get some version of opera with anti-aliasing to run reliably.

In answer to this: I have Opera 7.1 beta running on several 8.2 machines and I just checked with xmag and anti-aliasing is turned on. That's with the 'static' version of 7.1.

the second is my laserjet III-D. i installed it via yast, and the "hello, world" connection test is fine. the driver shipped, however, sends some data to the printer -- and then takes it offline! nothing is printed. it appears that there are two sets of printer drivers, one cups and one non-cups, with the distinction between them a little blurred.

any ideas?

thanks. -- dep

I won't be near my HP-III until Weds but when I was last there it seemed to be working fine. Will check again. Did you try the graphics test?

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On Tuesday 13 May 2003 01:36, dep wrote:

the first is the opera browser. i installed the one which came with 8.2, and it worked but looked awful, in that it did not inherit anti-aliasing for some reason. i upgraded to 6.12 shared, which when it worked looked just great -- but it seldom would start, usually segfaulting on the last line of the opera script. i tried 6.12 static, which just plain looked *weird,* with a combination of anti-aliased and jagged typefaces. i reverted to the shared 6.03, which decided not to run at all. i tried the version shipped with 8.2 again, and now *it* segfaults at start. in each case i rpm -e'd the old one before installing the new. all i'm trying to do here is get some version of opera with anti-aliasing to run reliably.

Hi How did you managed to install opera-6.12 or 7.1 under SuSE 8.2? In my case it always complains about missing libXm.so.2 !!!