Re: XOrg transition, status of libxaw8
Drew Parsons <dparsons@debian.org> wrote:
> Frank wrote:
>> >> The
>> >> CUPS queues print those thai (?) letters very nicely, it's a PostScript
>> >> printer.
>> >
>> > Not on my computer. The CUPS queues (and default postscript for that
>> > matter) are broke in latest firefox on my system. "Paper size not
>> > supported", bug #344401. Time to check the upstream bug discussion for
>> > that, I see.
>>
>> This error went away for me after the upgrade to 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.2-2bpo1
>
> Strange, my version is 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.2-3, the one before it in the
> changelog was 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.2-2. Was your -2bpo1 a local or
> experimental version?
No, as the version number implies it was 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.2-3 recompiled
for sarge and uploaded to backports.org. I'm using sarge as my daily
work distribution, sid is only in a chroot.
> But following the upstream discussion, I have been able to restore CUPS
> (and postscript/default) by manually deleting all references to user
> preferences "print.*" in prefs.js. Although the bug discussion
> indicates the problem will return in a few weeks time.
This I did also, just before installing this version, and it did not
help IIRC. But both together did. I think. But thinking again, I
wouldn't swear what the order of events was.
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)
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