http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3401
------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-03-17 23:04 ------- To get a PPD file especially for your printer, search the CD which comes with the printer for PPD files or look on the manufacturer's web site. If there are several PPD files use preferrably the ones for UNIX or Linux and if not available for Windows NT. Copy the found PPD file into /usr/share/cups/model and restart CUPS (as root in a terminal window type "service cups restart" or use "drakservices") then start Printerdrake again and the list of supported models will also contain your printer. It can even happen that the PPD file gets automatically assigned to your printer. If in doubt use the the "Expert Mode" button of Printerdrake and see also driver names in the list of printer models. The manufacturer-supplied PPD files make an entry with "PostScript (en)" or similar as driver name. If all works correct they are marked as the "recommended" driver. See also http://www.linuxprinting.org/foomatic2.9/ppd-doc.html for info about using manufacturer-supplied PPD files. When testing beta releases of a Linux distribution you must know that the betas and release candidates are only snapshots of certain states of the development. They are to test installation from CD-ROMs, giving an easy download possibility, especially for users who cannot do an FTP installation directly from the repository, etc. To get your test installation of Mandrake Linux always up-to-date you should use the software manager in the Mandrake Control Center. There you should add a Cooker mirror as a package source at first. Then you can either do updates with the software manager tools or you enter urpmi.update -a urpmi --auto-select in the terminal window as root. The first command updates the local database of available RPM packages (the repository on the Cooker mirror is permanently changing). The second command updates all packages for which newer versions are available. Now check if the bugs you have found before have disappeared, only report the remaining bugs. Note that now are in the last test stage for the CDs to be sent to duplication, so the shown commands will only pull updated packages when there will be very severe security problems. You can consider the current Cooker as Mandrake 9.1 final. Next week the Cooker will be opened for the development of Mandrake Linux 9.2. So there will be new packages on the Cooker then, but note that they can be buggy and unstable and they are not recommended for production ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is. ------- Reminder: ------- assigned_to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] status: RESOLVED creation_date: description: Hi, I am new to Linux in generel and Mandrake specifically. It is the first time i am entering a bugzilla report, so please bear with me. I may also be doing something wrong, simply because i am new to the software. Even if that is so, the software needs to be further simplified to prevent those problems. I have been trying 9.1rc2 recently and really like what I see. All the most important periperals were recognized automatically. There is one big problem for me though: There does not seem to be a clear way to install a network printer at the beginning. I am using a Xerox (sometimes called Tektronix) Phaser 860 directly on the ethernet. The OS did recognize my HP 45T on the parallel port correctly. Later I did try to install the Phaser via printerdrake. Every time the system automatically looks for attached printers and finds the HP 45T and also installs again. In the meantime - kept trying - I have 6 installations of the HP 45T printer but still no phaser. The system only appears to be looking for parallel and possibly USB printers but leaves the network printers out. Once it has found the printer it autoimatically goes back to the icon of printerdrake, there is no pssibility to choose to install ot to discard. Does anybody have an answer, the new distro seems so nice and I am keen on using it but cannot without the printer solution. Please let me know, if you need further info. Dietmar
