RE: Printer driver for Samsung CLP-415-NW on SL7 (solved)
Samsung's unified driver uld_v1.00.06.tar.gz, available from http://org.downloadcenter.samsung.com/downloadfile/ContentsFile.aspx?CDSite=UNI_UKCttFileID=2041645CDCttType=DRModelType=NModelName=CLX-3175VPath=DR/201310/20131024133933517/uld_v1.00.06.tar.gz contains a CLP-410 ppd file, I don't know if that is the same one shipped with RH7. John
RE: Printer driver for Samsung CLP-415-NW on SL7
Thanks everyone for the suggestions. I didn't try copying anything from SL6 to SL7; maybe I had in the past installed the Samsung Unified Linux Driver. Anyway the newer SULD seems to have done the trick. Two small problem with the installation was that I had to stop firewalld and CUPS failed to restart (probably because of the systemd changes). Regards Bill Maidment -Original message- From:Karel Lang AFD l...@afd.cz Sent: Friday 14th November 2014 20:52 To: Bill Maidment b...@maidment.me; SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS@FNAL.GOV Subject: Re: Printer driver for Samsung CLP-415-NW on SL7 Hi Bill, did you just try to copy the ppd file you're using on the 6 to 7 and test result? cheers, -- *Karel Lang* *Unix/Linux Administration* l...@afd.cz | +420 731 13 40 40 AUFEER DESIGN, s.r.o. | www.aufeerdesign.cz On 11/14/2014 05:10 AM, Bill Maidment wrote: Hi I have been using a Samsung colour printer CLP-415-NW on SL6 using the recommended CLP-310 series driver with good results. On SL7, the driver recommended (the only one shown) is CLP-410 series, but this only prints in black and white. Has anyone found a colour version that will work on SL7? Regards Bill Maidment Landline: +61 2 4472 9374 Mobile: +61 418 682 993 Web: www.maidment.me
RE: Printer driver for Samsung CLP-415-NW on SL7 (solved)
That should have read now i CAN print in colour. Sorry for the confusion!! Regards Bill Maidment -Original message- From:Bill Maidment b...@maidment.me Sent: Friday 14th November 2014 17:39 To: Bill Maidment b...@maidment.me; SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS@FNAL.GOV Subject: RE: Printer driver for Samsung CLP-415-NW on SL7 (solved) Well I found UnifiedLinuxDriver-4.00.39.tar.gz and installed it with compat-libtiff3. Now I can't print in colour.
Re: Printer driver for Samsung CLP-415-NW on SL7
As the Samsung CLP series are not PCL or Postscript, you need more than just a PPD. There are really three choices: 1: Samsung model specific driver. 2: Samsung Universal Print Driver (UPD). 3: Open source foo2qpdl driver. The first option is generally best, especially if your printer has a unique feature of some sort that you use often as the UPD will quite usually hide the unique options in a layer of UI. This is not an option for many models, especially running Linux. The UPD is especially great if you are printing to multiple Samsung printers. It almost always is updated more often than a model-specific driver, and that is the case on all supported platforms (not just Linux). It is also a better choice if you will be installing on a shared system where the users are familiar with the UPD on Windows as most of their knowledge maps cross-platform with this driver. As for the open source option… I understand foo2qpdl gives awesome output, especially for open source. Unfortunately, the author is actively hostile to packaging his drivers. As I am not a fan of leaving unpackaged files outside /home (ok, and maybe /etc and /opt and /var… you got me…), that makes this an option that is personally unpalatable. This is unfortunate, as he is effectively turning away patches and other development assistance. But everyone has their own needs and desires and approaches in open source. The foo2qpdl home page is at http://foo2qpdl.rkkda.com/ for those who have fewer qualms than I do about unpackaged files and/or have a stronger need or desire to use an open source answer. I realize that this is far more than you likely hoped (or cared to receive) as an answer. But I am hopeful that future archive searchers will find this reply and that it will still be relevant. :) Matt -- Matt Lewandowsky Big Geek Greenviolet m...@greenviolet.net http://www.greenviolet.net +1 415 578 5782 (US) +44 844 484 8254 (UK) Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone. From: Karel Lang AFD Sent: Friday, 14 November 2014 01:49 To: Bill Maidment; SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS@FNAL.GOV Subject: Re: Printer driver for Samsung CLP-415-NW on SL7 Hi Bill, did you just try to copy the ppd file you're using on the 6 to 7 and test result? cheers, -- *Karel Lang* *Unix/Linux Administration* l...@afd.cz | +420 731 13 40 40 AUFEER DESIGN, s.r.o. | www.aufeerdesign.cz On 11/14/2014 05:10 AM, Bill Maidment wrote: Hi I have been using a Samsung colour printer CLP-415-NW on SL6 using the recommended CLP-310 series driver with good results. On SL7, the driver recommended (the only one shown) is CLP-410 series, but this only prints in black and white. Has anyone found a colour version that will work on SL7? Regards Bill Maidment Landline: +61 2 4472 9374 Mobile: +61 418 682 993 Web: www.maidment.me smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
Scientific Linux LiveCD/DVD 6.6 officially released
Hi, Scientific Linux 6.6 LiveCD, LiveMiniCD and LiveDVD are officially released. They are available for 32-bit and 64-bit and come with following window manager LiveMiniCD icewm LiveCD gnome LiveDVDgnome, kde, icewm Software was added from rpmforge, epel and elrepo (see EXTRA SOFTWARE) to include additional filesystem support (ntfs, reiserfs), secure network connection (openvpn, vpnc, pptp), filesystem tools (dd_rescue, ddrescue, gparted, gdisk), and better multimedia support (gstreamer-ffmpeg, flash-plugin) DOWNLOAD - http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.6/i386/iso - http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.6/x86_64/iso Or - http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/livecd/66/i386 - http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/livecd/66/x86_64 Alternatively use a public mirror http://www.scientificlinux.org/downloads/sl-mirrors/ CHANGES SINCE SL6.5 LIVE - software based on SL6.6 - gnome-applets, gnome-utils, evince, ghostscript, poppler and some fonts were removed from LiveCD(still available on the LiveDVD) NOTES - For SL6 the way how the LiveCD was built has completely changed. It is now based on the Fedora LiveCD tools. - If you install the LiveCD to hard drive, the installation of the live image is done by anaconda similar to the normal SL6 installation. All changes done during LiveCD usage are lost! - You can install the LiveCD on an USB stick with persistent changes using liveusb-creator included in sl-addons: yum --enablerepo=sl-addons install liveusb-creator - To build your own LiveCD use livecd-tools from sl-addons: yum --enablerepo=sl-addons install livecd-tools EXTRA SOFTWARE (repo sl-livecd-extra) - fuse-sshfs - ntfs-3g - ntfsprogs - dd_rescue - ddrescue - iperf - flash-plugin - gstreamer-ffmpeg - rxvt-unicode (only MiniCD) - gparted - gdisk - NetworkManager-openvpn - NetworkManager-vpnc - NetworkManager-pptp - vpnc-consoleuser - kmod-reiserfs - reiserfs-utils BOOT PARAMETERS - live_ram copy entire Live image to RAM (takes a few minutes) - noswap do not use SWAP partition found on hard drive - pw=any_password set password - noautologin disable auto login - automountenable auto mounting (rw) of all found hard drives - user=usernameusername of local user, default is liveuser - cups=server set CUPS server - hostname=nameset hostname - checkverify LiveCD before booting - liveinst directly start graphical installation to hard drive - textinst directly start text based installation to hard drive - overlay=UUID=defines the UUID of the USB device used for persistent overlay - rdinitdebug debug dracut boot process - ejecteject LiveCD/DVD at shutdown More information can be found at http://www.livecd.ethz.ch Urs Beyerle
Re: SL 7 install network drivers
On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 09:35:47AM -0600, Stephen Berg (Contractor) wrote: I have a desktop system with Nvidia MCP55 ethernet chipset. ... Yes, I noticed this, too. SL7 installer did not see the network on an ASUS A8N-E based machine (NVidia chipset and NVidia 1GigE ethernet). We still have several of these machines and no plans to retire them, they work just fine. Replacement could be $300 AMD socket AM1 machines. Lack of driver in the installer is not a big deal - I do the installations from USB flash, no need for network. -- Konstantin Olchanski Data Acquisition Systems: The Bytes Must Flow! Email: olchansk-at-triumf-dot-ca Snail mail: 4004 Wesbrook Mall, TRIUMF, Vancouver, B.C., V6T 2A3, Canada
Re: Anyone want my Wine compile notes?
On 13/11/14 21:30, ToddAndMargo wrote: Do you know how to use 'mock'? Can you RPM wrap it, or work from the older RPM's to update them and build them with 'mock', so you get a clean list of the dependencies in the .spec file? Hi Nico, Sadly, I don't know how. A very quick and rough mock crash course, purely from my memory and it may contain some errors. yum install mock Then ensure you become member of the new 'mock' group. rpm -hvi $SRC_RPM Then edit ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/$package.spec file with your modifications. Look for the %setup section, where %configure often is a macro for running ./configure. But arguments to %configure are passed on further to ./configure. rpmbuild -bs ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/$package.spec This should give you a src.rpm in ~/rpmbuild/SRPMS/$package To run a mock build, do this: mock --rebuild $SRC_RPM -r $CONFIGNAME $CONFIGNAME can for example be epel-7-x86_64. When it has completed (or failed), you can find the results in /var/lib/mock/ with complete build logs and all packaged RPMs if it was successful. All defalt configs packaged with mock can be found in /etc/mock. You'll see an extensive list of Fedora and EPEL here. Might even find addtional ones for CentOS or SL other places too. The point is that using this method you can easily build packages for many distros in a safe and correct manner, without too much worries. All builds happens in a mock chroot with the proper compiler and libraries installed for that distro. For anyone who haven't played with mock, I can highly recommend it! -- kind regards, David Sommerseth
