Re: CUPS vs lpd (was Re: Giving up on Iceweasel 3.0)
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On 07/06/08 12:47, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
>
>> On 07/06/08 09:59, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote:
>
>>> You are right IMHO; it is a bug, not just the Inevitable
>>> March Of Progress. It seems clear that the Firefox developers
>>> did not intend to drop lpr support:
>
>>> - they don't say anything about such a change in the Release
>>> Notes.
>>> - in about:config there are still numerous references to
>>> PostScript/Default, lpr., etc.
>>> - it seems such a silly thing to remove; very little code can
>>> be saved by this.
>
>>> Surely it is a bug. From this item on bugzilla:
>
>>> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=430818
>
>>> it seems that until a few days before the Firefox 3 release
>>> (which took place on June 17th) Firefox could not print *at
>>> all*. [..]
>
>> That's weird. Sid only has -rc_2_ and I can print just fine.
>> Unless Eric Dorland (the IW maintainer) fixed the code himself.
>
>>> There are lots of other bugs in the new Firefox/Iceweasel. A
>>> particularly serious one (all resized images became black
>>> rectangles) apparently was quietly fixed a few days ago. I
>>> expect the same will happen with the lpr bug. [..]
>
>> Where did you read this? I resize pictures, and they don't
>> turn into black rectangles. Unless what I'm thinking of isn't
>> what "they" are talking about...
>
> It could be that the "black rectangle bug" (which occurs /
> occurred, for instance, when a Web page serves a picture at a
> specific size, not its "natural" size) only happened with ATI
> Radeon cards. There are several bug reports about it, for instance
> this Ubuntu one:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.0/+bug/182038
>
> and very likely also Debian bug #487834. I have a Radeon, and
> had trouble with this bug in FF3, not in FF2. But as I said, it
> has disappeared (after an upgrade).
According to (at least some posts in) that link, people using the nv
driver were having the problem, and those using nvidia were not.
> The "lpr printing bug" may also disappear soon. The bugzilla page
> I mentioned now has a contribution by list member Mumia W. who
> says lpr printing works again after installing GTK+2.10 (from
> source). I'm going to try that..
- --
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
"Kittens give Morbo gas. In lighter news, the city of New New
York is doomed."
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