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Help me to configure the printer - Forums Linux

Help me to configure the printer

Posted: 01 Aug 2006 02:41 AM PDT

kaari <com> wrote: 

General, if somewhat aging, advice on Debian printer setup:
"Printing Setup" on http://linuxmafia.com/kb/Debian/


First stop for any printer driver issue on Linux should be
http://www.linuxprinting.org/ (linked from the above), as it
lets you know what are the recommended filters ("drivers") for
just about any printer.

(FYI, when you're asking for Linux help about a piece of hardware,
please use the _complete and correct_ name for that hardware -- since
your helpers may need to search on it. You did not do so.)

For the HP DeskJet 3535, you reach this detail page:
http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=HP-DeskJet_3535

Please note that it recommends, not surprisingly, the hpijs filter
("driver") as your overall best choice -- or its "HPLIP" superset.

I note, in searching the packages.debian.org engine, that Debian has
packages "hplip" and "hplip-data" -- and that the notes say you need
package "hpoj" (primarily intended for HP OfficeJets; thus the name),
instead, for parallel-port models as opposed to USB or JetDirect.
You'll probably need to also request packages "hpijs",
"foomatic-filters", and "foomatic-filters-ppds" -- in addition to what
my article (above) mentions.

How to upgrade FC4 to FC5 using BT-downloaded DVD ISO image?

Posted: 31 Jul 2006 04:03 PM PDT


Stephen Pennine wrote: 

I'm unfamiliar with FC, and it's variants, but concerning all ISOs,
Images, and d/l files;
ALWAYS run the md5 checksum (or sha1sum) against anything you d/l, and
do it _before_ you burn the image to CD/DVD. (so as not to create
coasters, but more importantly: to ensure the resulting CD/DVD will be
of use and accurate). Knoppix CDs have the ability to perform checksums
against themselves at boot time, perhaps other LiveCDs do as well.

Regards

getting Fedora off my Windows machine.- boot sector problem

Posted: 30 Jul 2006 07:46 PM PDT


Rick Moen wrote: 

Hi Rick;
FWIW -- There doesn't appear to be the 2 'other' most commonly used
commands listed there at that link - namely;
FIXMBR
BOOTCFG /rebuild

Only FIXBOOT is discussed which doesn't fix a HDD MBR, but only the (a)
partition's Boot sector.

The author of the site appears quite knowledgeable about windows, and
even posts links to quite a few respectable ms mvps' sites -- I even
likely have that page bookmarked in my win98 boot area (Dual boot box)
-- but I haven't had a need to fire it up for perhaps a month now or so
;-)

I commend the author for both maintaining the site for ms users whom
need help -- and for posting screenshots and for posting concise
instructions about using the RC in XPoop ;-) But I disagree about the
methodology to restore an XPoop MBR. As noted via another poster: a
simple win98 comand 'Fdisk /mbr' (which IIRC, only rewrites the 1st
440bytes of 512 and leaves the 64 bytes of the MPT untouched) -- or the
_preferred_ (in this case) XPoop's version 'FIXMBR' will rewrite the
MBR. NTFS (as opposed to win98's FAT16/32) uses the usually mostly
unused 8 bytes (the leftovers) to mark(ID) the MBR as it's own.

Googling those other 2 commands should yield a wealth of information
about their uses.

Another thing I recall when messing with XPoop's RC -- the XP CDROMs
contents (atleast in the i386 Dir) are compressed files with names like
NTDETECT.CO_ ,so decompressing them into their proper name is necessary
if trying to replace those files (originally found in root C:\). Win98
uses the "extract" command when doing this, whereas winXPoop uses the
"Expand" command.

I've had the displeasure to endevour on such a journey once or twice ..
I forget if the 'Expand' command is needed (instead of 'copy' as
outlined in the link) , or if RC already knows (assumes) this, and does
the expansion on it's own (perhaps the CDROMs version of 'Copy' invokes
expansion ?), but I don't think I recall it that way when I did it.

Well -- so much for my limited XPoop exp ;-)
Just wanted to point out some possible mis-steps that may occur if you
link to that particular site.

Regards

cant install SUSE 9.3, 10.0, 10.1 on raid0

Posted: 30 Jul 2006 09:12 AM PDT

thanks for your input. one of the drives was faulty. now i'm waiting
for a replacement.

Installing Linux on Vaio PCG-SR7K

Posted: 30 Jul 2006 08:35 AM PDT

zalek wrote:
 

Stop with the DVD's, serously. Use the CD's: they're just as easy to burn,
and will probably work much better.

I've installed Vaio's before, and it can be a bit of an adventure to get all
the drivers into the base installer: working from CD is more reliable.

100% / and swap usage

Posted: 28 Jul 2006 11:18 AM PDT

On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 20:51:00 GMT, Jean-David Beyer <net> wrote:
 
No --^^^^^ 

And one may go through swapfile creation, just for fun:

root@deltree:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1M count=128
128+0 records in
128+0 records out
134217728 bytes (134 MB) copied, 15.0909 seconds, 8.9 MB/s
root@deltree:~# mkswap /swapfile
Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 134213 kB
no label, UUID=736a6bbf-a14b-446b-81f2-f1293746a288
root@deltree:~# swapon /swapfile
root@deltree:~# cat /proc/swaps
Filename Type Size Used Priority
/dev/hda3 partition 257032 0 -1
/swapfile file 131064 0 -2
root@deltree:~# swapoff /swapfile
root@deltree:~# rm /swapfile
root@deltree:~# cat /proc/swaps
Filename Type Size Used Priority
/dev/hda3 partition 257032 0 -1

Calling a partition "/swap" does not make it a virtual memory paging area.

So if OP posts 'ls /swap', 'cat /proc/swaps', 'cat /etc/fstab' and
'fdisk -l' we might see what's going on in there.

Performance loss by using swapfile isn't that much. File or partition,
the drive head still needs to seek to the swap area.

With a swap partition there's no filesystem layer (directory) to follow,
making a separate partition a little faster.

Cheers,
Grant.

Flash and Linux and component directory

Posted: 28 Jul 2006 10:15 AM PDT


Lenard wrote: 

Wow!!! I don't know how to thank you! I have been asking and asking
and asking forever and now the problem is solved. Honestly, I have no
idea yet what system_u and .. are but definitly going to learn them.
Anyway, the problem is solved. THANKS INDEED.

I was about to reinstall my linux box!!!

Amit.

Logrotate appends extra numbers to logfiles

Posted: 27 Jul 2006 03:38 PM PDT

com wrote:
 

Something tells me that sysadmin's going to be buying everyone dinner.
The bit about setting utmp to 755 permissions, in particular, is very,
very bad. You want to leave utmp severely alone.

Linux RH on Asus P5AD2 3.0 Intel - Ethernet not Detecting

Posted: 26 Jul 2006 03:54 PM PDT

It's kind of wierd. I ran the Ubuntu on the same system and it was
detecting everything including onboard devices. I guess Ubuntu has
resolved my issue. I'm not going to worry about it.

Regards,

Thanks for your replies.

MQ


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