Printer not working in Arch Linux?

I had to downgrade libcupsfilters to 2.1.1-4. Found a bug report about it here. I have a Brother HL-2140 printer. Using the brlaser driver, but the foomatic probably works too.

I was using Brother HL-2140 Foomatic/hl1250 in openSUSE Slowroll.

Well, the best part of Arch Linux, is newer packages, and your printer might not work anymore.

openSUSE Slowroll really is slow

Use PackMan with Slowroll, and you might be waiting a month to update.

Problem: 1: the to be installed Mesa-libGL1-32bit-26.1.6-1699.3.pm.1.x86_64 requires ’libgallium-26.1.6.so’, but this requirement cannot be provided not installable providers: Mesa-dri-32bit-26.1.6-1.1.x86_64[openSUSE:repo-oss] Mesa-dri-26.1.6-1.1.i586[openSUSE:update-slowroll] Mesa-dri-32bit-26.1.6-1.1.x86_64[openSUSE:update-slowroll]

Maybe not many people use Slowroll, or use it with PackMan. So no security updates or anything, until PackMan is updated. That might happen next month.

Want video acceleration without using Flatpak? Don’t use openSUSE then. Would be faster to switch my desktop to Arch Linux at this point. Did I ever try Debian on my desktop? Maybe it’s ancient enough that Debian would work on it.

Or use openSUSE, but put everything in a container of some kind, Flatpak, distrobox… That will need a reinstall though. Too much junk installed. Also, had to wait until the next month to update before now too, with Slowroll. Tumbleweed got the everything recompiled for some Python package, before Slowroll.

And if I update and keep old Mesa, I may have issues. People have tried that on Reddit.

OM System September 9th event

Looks like OM System is announcing a new camera on September 9th.

If it’s $600 or less, I might save up for it. I’ll pay $600 for a new camera. But not a TV. The TV would have to be at least 55" and not “smart”, and Mini LED.

Looks like it might be a smaller camera too. Don’t want a bigger heavy camera. Good way to hurt my wrist.

But if it has PDAF, the auto focus on a four thirds lens, might be fast enough for me. Won’t buy a four thirds lens though, until I have a camera with PDAF.

There’s other benefits in getting a new camera, the firmware will probably have improvements.

RIP Lilly

Love you Lilly, everyone will miss you.