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

Tue Sep 13 16:49:25 CEST 2011

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 ;)
+