Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 13:28:02 -0500 (EST)
From: "Christopher W. Aiken"
Message-ID:
Subject: Re: [SLE] yast2 screws up printer setup
On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Michel Catudal wrote:
-|Samy Elashmawy wrote:
-|
-|>
-|>Yast 2 set up the printer correctly
-|
-|This is not a correct statement. yast2 messes up big time when
-|setting up the printer. When you print a page it prints most of
-|the page on one page and prints about 0.5inch or so on a different
-|page. There is no option to correct the size of the paper during
-|setup so this makes yast2 completely useless to setup the printer.
-|
-|The only way that I found to get the printer setup correctly is
-|to use the /var/lib/apsfilter/SETUP on the command line where you
-|do have the option to set the page correctly to letter instead of
-|that weird format which doesn't fit on a printer sheet and ends
-|up being printed on two pages.
-|
yast1 still works OK for setting up printers for me on my SuSE 7.0
system. I'm using a Epson 740 printer.
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Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA
chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com
Current O/S: SuSE 7.0 Professional Linux
