On Wednesday 25 February 2015 09:41:26 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Wednesday 25 February 2015 14:30:44 Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Wednesday 25 February 2015 04:13:26 Curt wrote: > > > On 2015-02-25, Curt <cu...@free.fr> wrote: > > > > There's also, I believe, a kde specific printer settings tool (of > > > > which I don't know the name) whose defaults might be conflicting with > > > > or overriding your duplex desires, although why the option would be > > > > greyed-out in various pdf viewers escapes me. > > > > > > Maybe it's 'system-config-printer-kde'. > > > > That, on this system, is a subdir with a bunch of .py stuff in it. > > > > And I find it a bit interesting that despite there being a bit over half > > a megabyte of python stuff in that directory, this command returns a > > null. > > > > gene@coyote:/usr/share/kde4/apps/system-config-printer-kde$ grep -i > > duplex * > > > > OTOH, the old install is similarly bereft of any results in that > > directory, and it worked just fine. So if I run from the system menu, > > "printing", I get a slightly different interface gui, but attempts to > > look at the printer profile in question reports an error '(unknown IPP > > tag)' has an unknown value and cannot be edited (presumably because I > > have not groked a way to run it from the menu item named "printing" with > > root privileges. > > > > But when I have figured it out, I get the same error, when I attempt to > > commit a change in the print quality, I am presented with the same error > > BUT it does appear to get changed. > > > > Clicking on closing the error does go ahead and display all the values as > > set by the web page localhost:631. > > > > I finally figure out how to run that as root, and get the same IPP > > resolution tag error as when I run it as me. > > > > Synopsis so far: If I want good color, it appears I have to use the > > brother drivers, but when I do, NO system printing facility can see or > > use the printers duplexing ability, the printer options page of > > everything that has a print in the file menu, call up a similar function > > selection interface that all ghosts out, and it will not use it > > regardless of the printers own menu settings under the tray menu. > > > > Filing a bug seems to go to a black hole, made difficult to file by the > > insistence of a name of a package to file the bug against when I have no > > damned clue where or why its getting lost. > > > > Which is right back at square one. So how the heck do I convince the bug > > triage people into actually looking at this endless, nobody has more than > > a tentative clue/suggestion, which I have checked out in every case where > > I understood the lingo, without any resolution to the problem that wheezy > > has, but which ubuntu-10.04.4 LTS never had since I bought this printer > > around 2 years ago. And since we've been chasing our collective tailks > > for what, 10 days now, its obviously not going to get fixed until the > > debian bug fixers who deal with printing actually read this thread. > > bugs.debian.org is, as far as being able to describe the error, miserably > > lacking because the only place you can try is in the ending comments, > > which apparently aren't being read. > > > > No reply in about 24 hours. What sort of a time frame should I expect? > > It isn't a Debian bug. You haven't got a working driver for Linux. Try to > get it from Ubuntu 10.04 since Ubuntu 14.04 hasn't got it either.
I have also done that, it doesn't work duplex either, but it shows in the cups dialog just fine. > > Lisi Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/201502251026.50644.ghesk...@wdtv.com
