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

[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