[Mageia-discuss] Testers needed for hplip on Mageia 1.

Samuel Verschelde stormi at laposte.net
Tue Sep 13 16:52:05 CEST 2011


Le mardi 13 septembre 2011 16:49:25, Florian Hubold a écrit :
> Am 13.09.2011 16:25, schrieb TJ:
> > On 09/12/2011 06:21 PM, David W. Hodgins wrote:
> >> The QA team on Mageia is currently rather small, and we need
> >> some people who have hp printers to help testing an update
> >> to the hplip package.
> >> 
> >> The bug report for the update is
> >> https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2714
> >> 
> >> To install the update, run drakrpm-edit-media (or MCC/Software
> >> Management/Configure media sources for install and update),
> >> and enable the "Core Updates Testing" repository.
> >> 
> >> Then run "urpmi hplip".
> >> 
> >> Once it's installed, use drakrpm-edit-media or mcc to disable
> >> the "Core Updates Testing" repository.
> >> 
> >> Note: If mgaapplet detects updates available, while the Testing
> >> repository is enabled, do not use it to install updates. :-)
> >> 
> >> Then restart cups "service cups restart", and see if the printer
> >> is working.
> >> 
> >> After that, either add an entry to the bug report, or reply to
> >> this post, and I'll add the info to the bug report.
> >> 
> >> Please include whether or not it works, and what system you're
> >> using (32 or 64 bit, and type of printer).
> >> 
> >> We are mainly interested in cases where hplip is currently
> >> working, to ensure this update doesn't create any new problems.
> >> 
> >> Regards, Dave Hodgins
> > 
> > Would love to, but my printers (Officejet 6110 and Deskjet 5650) both
> > have a problem when it comes to the duplexer and print jobs with an odd
> > number of pages. Same problem appeared in Mandriva 2010.1/2.
> > Unfortunately, the guys over at hplip haven't been able to duplicate the
> > problem, at least on Mandriva, so it must be something unique to me.
> > 
> > Otherwise, though, hplip 3.11.3a has been working fine. Would my test
> > still yield valid info for you?
> > 
> > TJ
> 
> Yes, it would, please test if everything still works or maybe
> even that your problem is fixed with the update ;)

Don't promise such things ! :)

Samuel


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