Printer recommendations
by CS DBA
All;
I'm having a tough time finding a color laser printer (preferably with
duplex capability) that works well with Fedora 24 / KDE. I've tried a
few, even downloaded a set of brother printer RPM's but no luck.
Anyone have any recommendations per a printer and what driver you are using?
Thanks in advance
7 years, 6 months
Re: Printer recommendations
by GERHARD GOETZHABER
Hi!
On myself I've had best experience with a Canon product on both RH
derived and "debioid" Linux systems for meantime about one and a half year:
It was a pretty good offer of a computer shop in my country (Austria)
having me had purchase a piece of demonstration ware still under
guarantee, an I-sensys LBP7100Cn for 120 $ only. Wonderful machine!
The most over reason of that low price might have been that printer was
one of the last Canon models unconditionally basing on Canon's
proprietary UFRII printer language and thus requiring a special driver,
whereas later Canon products allow to work on HP or PS printing data ,
too. However, the excellent Linux drivers (consisting of a
"cndvcups-common" and a "cndrvcups-ufr2lt" each) bundled as .deb and
.rpm packages together are shipped on CD with the printer, and you can
download newer versions from Canon servers in USA, UK and Australia.
I've tried them out with a lot of Debian and RH based distros and
therein never seen any serious difficulties but sometimes on Debian
rather than Ubuntu having had to add one to three dependencies manually.
(On RH derived distros, Yum and Dnf will solve it automatically!) I
always work on KDE Plasma whereon the printer recognition now seems to
act perfectly.
May be somewhere you can find one for you that's similarly cheap,
be the Ancients with ye,
Geri Goetzhaber
7 years, 6 months
Trying to use nouveau in plasma and f23
by John Pilkington
My video card has worked fine with recent builds of the f23 nvidia304xx
driver from rpmfusion, but an update two days ago left me with black
screens (two - VGA and HDMI). I have a thread on the rpmfusion list,
but here may now be more appropriate.
I have removed the nvidia packages, and nouveau gives me the full plasma
window with taskbar etc, but after a few seconds that is replaced by
featureless black screens with a mouse arrow that moves - from one
screen to the other - but does nothing else.
Ctrl/Alt/F2 lets me view Xorg.0.log - on both screens - and all looks
harmless until, about 80 seconds after the last NOUVEAU message, about
HDMI max frequency, I get
AIGLX: Suspending AIGLX clients for VT switch
NOUVEAU(0): NVLeaveVT is called
It now looks as if this is just recording the switch to tty2
Switching between Ctrl/Alt/F2 and Ctrl/Alt/F1 adds more instances of it
but I still don't get a working GUI
Ideas?
John P
7 years, 6 months
5.8 multiscreen problems
by Steven Haigh
I already had some issues with multiscreen in 5.7, but some things seem
to get better with 5.8 - and also some things getting worse.
Previous bug report:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=367917
System 1:
Hardware: nVidia 1060 with nvidia drivers.
Screens: 3 x 24" 1920x1080 screens.
Problem:
The main screen (DVI-D) seems to work ok as Folder mode and saves the
settings. The screens on either side of that (DP-1 & DP-5) will not keep
their setting and keep reverting to 'factory default' folder view with
icon rows / wallpapers on logging on.
System 2:
Hardware: Dell Latitude with intel graphics
Screens: 2 x DVI screens via docking station.
Problem:
On logging in with a new user account (an empty $HOME), I get the
'factory default' view on both screens. No panel is displayed. If you
right click the desktop, then Add Panel, nothing displays. doing
"killall plasmashell && plasmashell &" via krunner (Alt + F2), then upon
loading plasmashell, I get the normal panel plus an extra panel for
every "Add Panel" selected.
--
Steven Haigh
Email: netwiz(a)crc.id.au
Web: https://www.crc.id.au
Phone: (03) 9001 6090 - 0412 935 897
7 years, 6 months
