-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 09/25/07 21:33, Mike McCarty wrote: > These have (nearly) all been posted before, but some have requested > that they be reposted. If you don't like reading stuff > YET AGAIN, then just skip this message, please. > > My GF installed a USB mouse, and her keyboard went away. > They work together with THE OTHER OS. IIRC (it's been > a while) using a debug startup allows us to get up to > a root login, and look around, but using ^D from there > makes the keyboard go away. I can't tell if this is > an X Window problem, or below that, or what. The current > work around is to use an old PS/2 style mouse. The symptoms > are just as if the keyboard were unplugged. There is no > response whatsoever.
USB keyboard? (I've always been leery of them, because of the mutually-exclusive HID and {o,u}chi drivers. > My GF also can't mount a memory stick using a Dazzle > USB I/F through a hub. A regular disc (Western Digital) > mounts and runs fine on the same hub. When the Dazzle > is plugged directly into the USB port on the machine, > it can be mounted. This is extremely inconvenient, as I remember that thread. There are definitely "issues" with hubs and passive devices like memory sticks. [snip] > > So far, she's unable to get her printer to full functionality. > I kludged up a printer description which sorta works, but > not fully. It's an HP, but I don't at present recall the > exact model number. It is a combined Printer/FAX/Scanner. > So far, it just prints either in greyscale or color, depending > on how we've edited queue at the moment. We can't select different > print quality, color/greyscale, or any other options except by > editing the one queue associated with it. M/F printers have *always* been problematic under Linux. > It is also supposed > to be able to read and print camera memory sticks, but that > only works in stand-alone mode, with no way to get the info > from the printer to the computer. Supposedly, this works > with THE OTHER OS, though that is unverified. Anyway, at > present it's running with my kludgy edit of another printer > description file, not one from Debian, and just as a simple > printer, it can't even do a realign. None of the other > functions are currently usable. I doubt you'll ever find a solution until HP creates OSS drivers for hylafax and SANE. > Another issue which has never been posted: She installed more > memory. She had 512 MB RAM, and now has 1.5 Gig. Unfortunately, > Debian seems only to recognize just under 1.0 Gig. I haven't > looked on the web for a fix for that, so I haven't posted > here. Part of the reason I haven't gone searching for a > solution, is that her reaction to that was to purchase a copy > of Windows XP. That's easy to solve. Will require a kernel rebuild, though. However, Debian kernels have had CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y for quite some time now. More than a year. > She's sorta impulsive, sometimes. > > Partly, she also wants access to a disc which was formatted > by Windows NT, and which she considers she has no access to > at present. libntfs-3g12. Will need a FUSE-enabled kernel. > (Not quite true, but I try not to argue with her > very much. Tsk tsk tsk. > It is true that she has some apps on there which > won't run under Debian.) Well duh. > I dunno how much progress will be made, even if I can make > everything work by Saturday evening. Certain things will work wonderfully for her. She'll discover, though, that the grass isn't greener, just a different variety. > She seems kinda to have > made up her mind. I have, um, limited influence over her > behavior. :-) You need a more compliant girlfriend. Lucy Liu-bot comes to mind. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Dated_a_Robot - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFG+dupS9HxQb37XmcRAoX+AKDbxus12CGbtnkr+b1Kspo8RV/XuQCfRBm+ SR9jIfigWJiq16MC0as6cGE= =Xjc0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]