On Mon, 5 Jul 2004, Larry Brown wrote:
> I wanted to install my HP Photosmart 1215 printer and went through the
> KDE applet to install it.
...
> It didn't work, but as soon as I removed the one that was there from the
> KDE applet the one I installed via YaST started working.
...
> I'd recommend using YaST to make changes where possible.
Yeah, I'm now trying to do things "the way the distro untended", in hopes
that I won't mess it up too badly, and for ease of upgrading.
I have problems with printing, too -- my Canon BJC-85 doesn't work. I
uninstalled CUPS using YaST, rebooted, and reinstalled it, to see if that
made things better. (Before, it was having some sort of authentication
problem, even when I supplied root's name and password). I'll see if that
makes it better. It wouldn't autodected it (USB connection), and I think
USB works otherwise. I mean, it printed (albeit distorted) once.
> (Not only was it a waste of time, but I'd rather be able to make changes
> using KDE so that a change in distro doesn't mean a change in the way to
> go about configuration!)
Yeah, YaST and KDE (and me, if I futz with the config files by hand) may
do things in incompatible ways; the last program to make a change may
ignore previous changes, or consider the file to be corrupt and replace
it with some default file.
-- -eben ebQenW1@EtaRmpTabYayU.rIr.OcoPm home.tampabay.rr.com/hactarHanlon's Razor: "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity." Derived from Robert Heinlein
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