Johannes Meixner wrote: > Hello, > > On Apr 22 07:29 Registration Account wrote (shortened): > >> If you are going to choose either a scanner or printer I agree >> make sure its a real HP. You will always have Linux drivers >> > > (shortened again) > Not always! > > > > Kind Regards > Johannes Meixner > True, but it is lot better than some (however my experience of HPs windows drivers has always been a bit mixed, and the JetDirect network stuff in Windows tends to be a bit of a curates egg... ).
While it is good to check, but there is also a bit of a problem with the hp support distributed in 10.2. The version distributed seems to be 1.6.9.x, the hp support is currently at 1.7.4.x. After upgrading to 10.2, I found when I came to need to use it, that the scanner support for my HP3300 was broken. Also YaST does not detect the 3300 as a scanner in any case (printing was fine). I found this a little odd as everything worked until the upgrade. Just spent a very entertaining Sunday sorting this out :-) Having downloaded and installed 1.7.4 with the HP installer the problem seems to be fixed , and I found the HP scanner and printer configuration tools a little more informative than YaST. The installation is not entirely smooth, one has to uninstall the SuSE version of the HP support manually as the HP installer fails to remove this via YaST and got badly hungup on the SuSE repositories (at least in my case). I think there is a case for configuring YaST to load the HPs tools if an HP printer/scanner is detected. Now all I have to do is make certain that YOU/YaST does not blow this away at a future date. For anyone experiencing problems with HP printers or scanners I would suggest installing the HP Linux drivers from the sourceforge site and not use the ones currently in the distribution... However, you do need to manually... a) Remove SuSE HP support (via YaST) b) Install python-devel as the installers interaction with YaST is a bit flakey... and also... c) There are some indications that it requires Postfix to be installed (I can think of someone that would please ;-) ) (BTW removing the HP drivers does not seem to change the CUPS queue configuration). Choose custom install rather than automatic when prompted.... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
