Re: Multifunction printer with Linux support?
by Henrik Frisk
Peter,
On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Peter Boy <pboy(a)barkhof.uni-bremen.de> wrote:
> Am Samstag, den 23.10.2010, 10:38 +0200 schrieb Henrik Frisk:
>> After many years my Samsung MFP died and I need to get a new one. I
>> want a B/W or color laser, preferably duplex, with network interface
>> MFP that works with Linux and OSX. Anyone has any suggestions or
>> recommendations?
>
> I had to check for a new Laser MFP half a year ago. The big problem is
> not a support of the printing facilitiy but of the scanner function,
> especially over network.
>
> HP has a good support for Linux, but their printers, especially the low
> budget models for private or small office use have a lot of problems
> with the paper tray (resulting in a askew image on the paper too often).
> The scanner is also of poor quality. The advertised resolution
> (1200*1200 in most cases) works in single flat bed mode only. Using the
> ADF it decreases significantly (you have to study the user manuals to
> find it because it is nowhere said on the marketing or pre-sell
> material). It always produces a light grey / brown background and I
> found no way to get a clear backbround.
>
> For brother and compatibles scanner support was poor / experimental or
> non-existing at all, especially over network. I didn't want to buy a MFP
> without a reliable scanner support.
>
> So I ended up with Lexmark X544 and X534 (without fax function).
> Printing quality is superior, paper handling marvalous, scanning quality
> excellent (handling of scanning over network is a little bit pedestrian
> because after starting the scanning process on your computer you have to
> go to the MFP to push a buttom). Linux is officially supported on the
> Web support page along with Mac and Windows and by the technical support
> hotline. The Linux driver nicely integrates into the standard
> infrastructure (CUPS, old lineprinter, sane). The costs for consumables
> are similiar to Brother etc, given their prebate and refund program.
> Often they offer a cash back program and refund up to half of the price
> of the printer.
>
Thank you for this report. It seems your experiences sum up the
thoughts in this thread. HP delivers good drivers but lousy printers
(in low price range) and Brother delivers decent printers for the
price but lousy drivers (for Linux). Based on your suggestions I'll go
for a Lexmark, though I might pick the B/W version X264. Thanks for
all the input!
/h
13 years, 6 months
Re: Question about installing with yum...
by Kevin Martin
On 10/25/2010 01:19 PM, Dj YB wrote:
> On Monday October 25 2010 20:20:36 you wrote:
>> I'm trying to get wine installed on Fedora 13 x86_64 but I get an error:
>>
>> Transaction Check Error:
>> package libuuid-2.17.2-9.fc13.x86_64 (which is newer than
>> libuuid-2.17.2-8.fc13.i686) is already installed package
>> mesa-libGLU-7.8.1-9.fc13.x86_64 (which is newer than
>> mesa-libGLU-7.8.1-8.fc13.i686) is already installed package
>> openldap-2.4.21-11.fc13.x86_64 (which is newer than
>> openldap-2.4.21-10.fc13.i686) is already installed
> Hi Kevin,
> can you post the entire output including the "yum install ..." part.
> Thanks,
> YB.
>
Sorted. Had installed the above packages from updates-testing. Enabled that repo at the yum install line and wine installed fine.
Sorry for the confusion.
Kevin
13 years, 6 months
Pulseaudio 40% of CPU
by JD
I played one video on youtube, then
killed the youtube browser tab.
I have no video or audio playing.
Many minutes later and still pulseaudio
taking 40% of CPU.
What in blazes is it doing? Why was it
designed to do this with nothing playing?
Every time I finish watching a flash vid,
or listening to something, I have to always
kill pulseaudio so I can get some response back.
$ top
top - 20:13:03 up 9:53, 2 users, load average: 2.49, 1.64, 1.34
Tasks: 183 total, 1 running, 182 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 54.7%us, 7.8%sy, 0.0%ni, 34.3%id, 0.3%wa, 0.0%hi, 2.9%si,
0.0%st
Mem: 2072776k total, 1844820k used, 227956k free, 284700k buffers
Swap: 8385924k total, 2148k used, 8383776k free, 771812k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
13417 jd 9 -11 161m 7376 5908 S 39.4 0.4 0:31.18 pulseaudio
13 years, 6 months
system-config-printer problem on F13 x86_64....
by Kevin Martin
F13, x86_64, recently updated, trying to setup a printer with system-config-printer v1.2.5:
$ /usr/bin/system-config-printer
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/system-config-printer/system-config-printer.py", line 7212, in <module>
focus_on_map)
File "/usr/share/system-config-printer/system-config-printer.py", line 7160, in main
print_test_page, focus_on_map)
File "/usr/share/system-config-printer/system-config-printer.py", line 580, in __init__
self.newPrinterGUI = np = NewPrinterGUI(self)
File "/usr/share/system-config-printer/system-config-printer.py", line 3911, in __init__
domain=domain)
File "/usr/share/system-config-printer/gui.py", line 39, in getWidgets
bld.add_from_file (os.path.join (ui_dir, xmlfile + ".glade"))
glib.GError: Error on line 755 char 77: Odd character 'o', expected an open quote mark after the equals sign when giving value for
attribute 'handler' of element 'signal'
Now, in doing a little research, I come up with these comments:
Comment by Andrea Scarpino (BaSh) - Tuesday, 19 October 2010, 10:45 GMT-4
this is because into the 1.2.5 package, /usr/share/system-config-printer/config.py looks in this way:
prefix="/usr/local"
datadir="/usr/local/share"
localedir="/usr/local/share/locale"
pkgdatadir="/usr/local/share/system-config-printer"
...and I don't know why
Comment by Rémy Oudompheng (remyoudompheng) - Tuesday, 19 October 2010, 12:05 GMT-4
You get the correct file if you replace "python2 setup.py build" in build() by just "make".
Comment by Daniel Felipe Reis Apolinario (dapolinario) - Tuesday, 19 October 2010, 12:15 GMT-4
Apparently "python2 setup.py build" and "python2 setup.py install - root =" $ {PKGDIR} "" is not doing the job correctly, but the
"make DESTDIR =" $ {PKGDIR} "install" yes. Try to keep the config.py file in the package "system-config-printer-gnome", it is
created correctly.
Is there a workaround?
Thanks.
Kevin
13 years, 6 months
(Fedora 13) Seamonkey 2.0.x constantly crashing
by Mason
Hello everyone,
The Seamonkey 2.0.x package in Fedora 13 is unusable,
as it crashes randomly, sometimes within seconds.
This problem has been well-known for months.
Fedora bug report:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=602437
Mozilla bug report:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=522635
As far as I understand...
In Linux, gecko (the layout engine) links to libcairo. When Mozilla
upgraded from libcairo 1.8.8 to libcairo 1.8.10, they found a bug in
gecko that made the app crash. This bug was fixed on the gecko 1.9.2
branch, but not on the 1.9.1 branch.
Seamonkey 2.0.x is based on gecko 1.9.1, and the package is built
to link to the system's libcairo, which is > 1.8.8 => CRASH
There are (at least) two solutions to this problem.
1. Several people have back-ported the gecko 1.9.2 fix to the 1.9.1
branch. Applying one of these patches would make Seamonkey 2.0.x work
with the system's libcairo. (Debian and Ubuntu have done that.)
2. Seamonkey provides its own private version of libcairo 1.8.8
Linking to that version of libcairo does not trigger the crash.
(This is how the official build is compiled, and in fact, linking
to the private libcairo is the recommended method.)
All it takes is --disable-system-cairo in the build script.
Both of these suggestions have been ignored by the package maintainer.
Having an app crash randomly and constantly is a very frustrating
experience.
Solution 2 is extremely trivial to implement.
What can I do to make it happen?
--
Regards.
13 years, 6 months
kvm_amd and cpufreq_ondemand
by Trever L. Adams
I have a system which I need to leave drawing as little power as
possible but provide performance, so I cannot peg the cores at their
maximum speed. However, even with cpufreq_ondemand loaded, it seems that
no virtual machine can generate enough load to cause it to bump the cpu
frequency above 800Mhz (the minimum).
Is such a thing even possible? I can do it manually and it seems ot
cause no problems.
Thank you,
Trever
--
"Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh
the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!" -- Charles
Dickens (1812-70)
13 years, 6 months
OT: website issues
by John Aldrich
Hey, folks... sorry for the OT post, but we've had reports that some
people, particularly in South America, are having issues getting to our
website unless they know the IP address.
I know there are a lot of folks on this list located outside the US. If a
few of you could see if you can just pull up my company's website and let
me know if you have any issues, I'd appreciate it. The URL is
www.blueridgecarpet.com
Please reply to me off-list, either to the email address I'm sending from or
to my work email, jaldrich(a)blueridgecarpet.com
Thanks and apologies to the list.
13 years, 6 months
about NetworkManager and /sbin/ifup-local
by Gabriel Ramirez
Hi,
I need to run a script when the eth0 interface goes active, under
service network is active this work fine using /sbin/ifup-local in my
desktop machine
but in my netbook running NetworkManager the script /sbin/ifup-local
don't work, so where can define/put a script so NetworkManager runs it
when one network interfece goes active?
or where can define the classes and qdiscs of a network device under
networkmanager, it seems to define some by default by the output of:
tc -s qdisc ls dev eth0
tc -s class ls dev eth0
Gabriel
13 years, 6 months
udev error?
by Silent-Hunter
Starting udev: udevd[609]: SYSFS{}= will be removed in a future udev
version, please use ATTR{}= to match the event device, or ATTRS{}= to
match a parent device, in /etc/udev/rules.d/50-euvccam.rules:1
udevd[609]: SYSFS{}= will be removed in a future udev version, please
use ATTR{}= to match the event device, or ATTRS{}= to match a parent
device, in /etc/udev/rules.d/50-euvccam.rules:2
udevd[609]: SYSFS{}= will be removed in a future udev version, please
use ATTR{}= to match the event device, or ATTRS{}= to match a parent
device, in /etc/udev/rules.d/50-euvccam.rules:3
udevd[609]: SYSFS{}= will be removed in a future udev version, please
use ATTR{}= to match the event device, or ATTRS{}= to match a parent
device, in /etc/udev/rules.d/50-euvccam.rules:4
udevd[609]: SYSFS{}= will be removed in a future udev version, please
use ATTR{}= to match the event device, or ATTRS{}= to match a parent
device, in /etc/udev/rules.d/50-euvccam.rules:5
udevd[609]: SYSFS{}= will be removed in a future udev version, please
use ATTR{}= to match the event device, or ATTRS{}= to match a parent
device, in /etc/udev/rules.d/50-euvccam.rules:6
udevd[609]: SYSFS{}= will be removed in a future udev version, please
use ATTR{}= to match the event device, or ATTRS{}= to match a parent
device, in /etc/udev/rules.d/50-euvccam.rules:7
Will this cause problems in the future? I noticed it immediately after
updating the kernel.
13 years, 6 months
two finger scrolling is disabled
by Caffeine Lee
Hi everyone,
I'm using F13 (Gnome) on hp 6930p with synaptics touchpad and I see the
"two-finger scrolling" option disabled.
When I open Windows, I see the touchpad is "Synaptics V7.0", connecting via
P/S 2
I'm not sure if the device is not supported or something is missing. I
haven't touch anything related to touchpad except configuring with Mouse
preference
Thank you,
Hoang Le
13 years, 6 months
