Bug 467457

Summary: Unable to select a printer driver for EPSON Stylus CX3900 in Yast
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 11.1 Reporter: Forgotten User mbQyAD5r4K <forgotten_mbQyAD5r4K>
Component: YaST2Assignee: E-mail List <bnc-team-screening>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID QA Contact: Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P5 - None CC: jsmeix
Version: RC 2   
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Hardware: i686   
OS: openSUSE 11.1   
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Description Forgotten User mbQyAD5r4K 2009-01-19 23:03:06 UTC 
Created attachment 266083 [details]
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I'm unable to select a printer driver for EPSON Stylus CX3900 in YaST2.

YaST2 Printer module correctly detects my printer as Model: EPSON Stylus CX3900, Connection: usb://EPSON/Stylus%20CX3900 but doesn't offer any drivers to choose from. The 'Show matching drivers' button only comes up with 'No matching driver found.'  For my printer I usually select EPSON CX3810 as there doesn't seem to be a driver specifically for CX3900.

Is there any way to display all drivers and select the right one by Vendor / Model?

For now I resorted to http://localhost:631 and installed the printer directly in CUPS, but being able to do it from YaST wouldn't be that bad either.

Reproducible: Always

Actual Results:  
Couldn't select any print driver and therefore couldn't install the printer.

Expected Results:  
Be able to select from a list by Vendor/Model when there's no driver exactly matching the printer model.
Comment 1 Johannes Meixner 2009-01-21 15:53:01 UTC 
Enter only "epson" as the model info in YaST
and then press [Show matching frivers],
then all Epson models together with
their drivers show up.

Or enter "CX" as the model info in YaST
or whatever you like...
Comment 2 Forgotten User mbQyAD5r4K 2009-01-21 20:04:36 UTC 
Ah, yeah that does the trick. Not quite intuitive, is it?