Dear RPMForge Community:
Some feedback on my testing of hplip-3.10.6-0.1.el5.test.i386.rpm
from the repos.
Recently fresh installed Centos 5.6 on my Dell Dimension 4300 i386
system circa 2000 construction. It's been upgraded with a PCI USB 2.0
card, pair of 320 GB Western Digital HDs, Nvidia FX5200 graphix card, a
Gigabyte of memory and 700 Watt PS. It has functioned nicely for since
C5.3 came out as my File Server, Print Server {HP Photosmart C4480}, Fax
Server and local Cobbler mirror. I was not excited when the fresh
install loaded hplip-1.6.7-6.el5_6.1.i386 but the first yum update added
hplip3-3.9.8-11.el5_6.1.i386. After much "tweaking" and trying I still
did not have a working scanner. sane-find-scanner could locate the
unit, but scanimage -L found nothing and up-toolbox would fault rather
than load and run. At this point I decided to try the "latest test
case" from rpmforge.
Installing hplip-3.10.6-0.1.el5.test.i386 I encountered several
error messages that files hplip-3.10.6-0.1.el5.test.i386 files were
confliting with hplip3-3.9.8-11.el5_6.1.i386 files already installed.
My work around fix was to yum erase hplip3-3.9.8-11.el5_6.1.i386, hpijs3
and hplip3-libs and then yum update with testing repo installed
hplip-3.10.6-0.1.el5.test.i386 without issue.
Now turns out my problem was most likely owner, group and
permission settings on the usb device. scanimage -L returns the proper
device and hp-toolbox works wonderfully from
hplip-3.10.6-0.1.el5.test.i386. I may or may not return to the "more
stable" hplip-1.6.7-6.el5_6.1.i386 with hplip3-3.9.8-11.el5_6.1.i386
files and see if I can make that work. But before I do what tests and
feedback do I need to provide the community on this package and where
best to provide it.
Sincerely,
BobLfoot -new RPMForge list member
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