RE: [SLE] Comments please? Will SuSE support all-in-one peripherals in the next release or will I have to switch to Mandrake?
-----Original Message----- From: Fred A. Miller [mailto:fm@cupserv.org] Sent: Donnerstag, 14. Februar 2002 16:46 To: wolfi Subject: Re: [SLE] Comments please? Will SuSE support all-in-one peripherals in the next release or will I have to switch to Mandrake?
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Well, I've been a SuSE supporter for some time, but there's also some
things like PRINTING, which I and many others have been complaining about for what seems a very long time. I hope SuSE "gets it right" in
7.4 or what ever it'll be, along with ROCK SOLID hardware detection and PROPER auto-setup for same, and EASY firewall setup!!! The later is MOST important for newbies. If the next release isn't as it should be, I may take a look at MDK.
Fred
-- Fred A. Miller Systems Administrator Cornell Univ. Press Services fm@cupserv.org
Sad story, you're the only one who responded to this issue at all. I am beginning to feel a little bit ignored here by the SuSE people. There is absolutely no way to make an OfficeJet work with a USB-ohci board, and when I claim this at feedback, the answer is: maybe you compiled your own kernel (which isn't correct), therefore it's your own fault and that's it. Never did one of the SuSE guys take notice of any of my posts here on this list, and the antialiasing story http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/chofman_ttf_72.html still does not contain the hint to hit 'q' for exiting whatever program displays the EULA - I posted this at least five times here and at least twice on feedback. What kind of policy is this, ignoring customer's needs? microsoftish? Anyway, not the way I would expect. ===== Cheers ... Wolfi mailto:wolfi_z@yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Got something to say? Say it better with Yahoo! Video Mail http://mail.yahoo.com
On Fri, 15 Feb 2002, wolfi wrote:
Sad story, you're the only one who responded to this issue at all. I am beginning to feel a little bit ignored here by the SuSE people. There is absolutely no way to make an OfficeJet work with a USB-ohci board, and when I claim this at feedback, the answer is: maybe you compiled your own kernel (which isn't correct), therefore it's your own fault and that's it. Never did one of the SuSE guys take notice of any of my posts here on this list, and the antialiasing story http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/chofman_ttf_72.html still does not contain the hint to hit 'q' for exiting whatever program displays the EULA - I posted this at least five times here and at least twice on feedback. What kind of policy is this, ignoring customer's needs? microsoftish? Anyway, not the way I would expect.
You are making the wrong assumptions here. Nobody with a @suse.(de|com) address is actually being paid to be subscribed to this list. Therefore you cannot expect them to read every single email and give free individual support. Consider it a curtesy, that apart from hosting and administrating this list there also are some SuSE people that try to step in and help from time to time. But this is definately not something you can simply expect or demand! Of course, we try to listen to customer requests and have an eye on frequently occuring problems, but there is so much traffic on this list that things might fall through the cracks from time to time. And yes, "fetchmsttfonts" will display a respective hint on how to exit the display of the MS EULA message. From the package changelog: [SNIP] ------------------------------------------------------------------- Wed Feb 13 18:17:49 CET 2002 - sndirsch@suse.de - give the user a note to exit from less with 'q' [SNIP] I have also just updated the SDB articles to give the user a hint about how to exit this screen. In the future, please send comments/suggestions about the SDB to sdb@suse.de - thanks. I don't know, if the OfficeJet above will be fully supported with the next release, but our developers are working very hard on making SuSE Linux as good and solid as possible. Even our days just have 24 hours (and the nights) - impossible things are being done immediately, miracles take a while longer. Bye, LenZ -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Lenz Grimmer SuSE GmbH mailto:grimmer@suse.de Deutschherrnstr. 15-19 http://www.suse.de/~grimmer/ 90429 Nuernberg, Germany Pregnancy is a side effect of sloppy birth control.
On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 05:41:54AM -0800, wolfi wrote:
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things like PRINTING, which I and many others have been complaining about for what seems a very long time. I hope SuSE "gets it right" in 7.4 or what ever it'll be, along with ROCK SOLID hardware detection and PROPER auto-setup for same, and EASY firewall setup!!! The later is MOST important for newbies. If the next release isn't as it should be, I may take a look at MDK.
Fred
-- Fred A. Miller Systems Administrator Cornell Univ. Press Services fm@cupserv.org
Sad story, you're the only one who responded to this issue at all. I am beginning to feel a little bit ignored here by the SuSE people. There is absolutely no way to make an OfficeJet work with a USB-ohci board, and when I claim this at feedback, the answer is: maybe you compiled your own kernel (which isn't correct), therefore it's your own fault and that's it. Never did one of the SuSE guys take notice of any of my posts here on this list, and the antialiasing story http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/chofman_ttf_72.html still does not contain the hint to hit 'q' for exiting whatever program displays the EULA - I posted this at least five times here and at least twice on feedback. What kind of policy is this, ignoring customer's needs? microsoftish? Anyway, not the way I would expect.
===== Cheers ... Wolfi
I am late to the party on this thread, but I do have some comments. First, printing in general is quite a mess in every version of Linux right now UNLESS you have a native postscript printer, then things are much better. The various combinations of print systems (LPD/LPR, LPRng, CUPS) and filters (magicfilter, apsfilter) and each vendors tweaking of each component makes consistent printing a big issue. I recommend using postscript printers with Linux for now. Second, multi-function devices barely work on Windows, much less on Linux. Most people I know with multi-function devices can't even get them to work right on Windows. You should be able to get basic printing to work, but again through the maze of print systems and filters ending in a PCL print stream. Usually, the fax functions of these devices can be used without using the computer. I missed the posts on antialiasing. Best Regards, Keith -- LPIC-2, MCSE, N+ wielder of vi(m), an ancient and powerful magic pteranadon smiles at me and flies up to god -- d.w.
On Friday 15 February 2002 08:41 am, wolfi wrote:
There is absolutely no way to make an OfficeJet work with a USB-ohci board, and when I claim this at feedback, the answer is: maybe you
I don't know if this is relevant, since it's really for a different type of printer, but for the HP Deskjet the best is HP's own inkjet driver for ghostscript (selectable in YAST2). Perhaps an HP ghostscript driver is the best driver for the HP OfficeJet as well.
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