[Mageia-dev] usb printers

zezinho lists.jjorge at free.fr
Mon Apr 2 22:47:34 CEST 2012


Em 02-04-2012 22:02, Florian Hubold escreveu:
> FWIW i've already brought the blacklisting issue up
> at https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4279#c7
> usblp is needed at least for most canon and some
> samsung printers, a few kyoceras and for all usb-parallel
> converter. Everybody who uses something like that,
> will not be able to set up their printer from MCC, until
> they un-blacklist usblp.

I was not aware of this bug report. For what I found out, it is only old 
proprietary drivers that still use usblp.

>
> And from where would they know? A README.urpmi will
> not be displayed for initial Mageia installations, so people
> doing a fresh mga2 install will not even notice this change.
> So it also has to be put in release notes, if blacklisted.
>

I agree, and added it to the release notes.


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