Re: [Sheflug] printer help

[Lesley Binks <lesley.binks@xxxxxxxxx>]

Richard Ibbotson wrote:
> Robert
> 
>> I haven't posted for years, things have been going right,
>> but I now have a problem, I'm running Suse 10 and printing on an
>> Epson stylus
>> d88 plus, driven  by turboprint, this is the problem
>> when I print I get lines , as if there where a bit missing in the
>> print out,
>> (I go back to apple2 and this ment the 8th bit was missing}
>> but when I print turboprints test page it has no lines and is
>> perfect. where do I look to solve this problem?
> 
> I don't think I can give you any real help.  I haven't seen this one 
> since SuSE 6.xx or 7.xx.  Shows you what Novell have been doing just 
> lately :)   Only thing I can do is point you at this...
> 
> http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting
> http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO/Printing-HOWTO.html
> 
> Which isn't much help.  I've always had problems with Linux and my own 
> Epson Stylus Color 300 printer.   I get a similar fault.   If you 
> want to upgrade from SuSE 10.0 don't go to 10.1.  There's a lot wrong 
> with it.  I'm running OpenSuSE 10.2 on a box over here and all that 
> was wrong with OpenSuSE 10.1 has been fixed.   CDs from...
> 
> http://www.cheapiso.com/

Actually I feel I have to disagree with that.  10.1 was fine but then I
only used it a short time after 10.0 and  before going over to 10.2
which in my view has some serious faults with YaST and the update
manager.  Zmd and it's sub-processes such as update-status have been
turned into CPU munching beasts in 10.2.  It's ok if you don't mind
waiting 3-5 minutes to use the computer after you boot up and log in.

I have switched to the smart package manager and check for updates
manually at the moment.  Effectively the mess that has been made of YaST
and zmd in 10.2 leaves no alternative but rpm from the CLI or smart
either CLI or GUI and smart is beta atm.

Regards

L.



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