> Welcome to the hell of 9.0 on a laptop... just for starters, I've removed > shorewall and msec from mine. Reliability is so bad (I don't have the HD > space to install more than one distro, and won't install 9.0 on any other > system I own or support) that I'm lucky to go a week without rebooting... > see my "weird time/mouse bug" post last night for the latest (apmd changes > the time & the time change kills mouse's drag functions -- resetting the > time fixes the mouse -- go figre!!) :^P
I used to get that with 8.2, but don't get it now. Strange. > > That said, have you used suspend/resume? That's the worst offender for > me... so bad that I just shutdown/reboot instead... with suspend/resume, > I lose sound, printer, and looking at a hard lockup within an hour or > so... hmm.... maybe due to the time change or anything UNrelated... I use it all the time and have no problems that I am aware of. I have been using apm - s with 8.2 (and got the can't drag problem) and have been using it for a week or so with 9.0 and not had a problem until this broken cups thing. > > Also, are you sure the printer is not working at all... I had one problem > that cleared up as mysteriously as it appeared... printing would take > several minutes to start -- cups was trying to access my LinkSys gateway, > probably thinking it should act as a print server or somesuch... Then, > there were the cases where the only way to get the printer working again > was to remove and re-create it... if I do service cups status I am told that cups is stopped. I do service cups start and it tells me that it has started [ok] in the term but /var/log/cups tells otherwise. Hmm..... -- Dave Whiting Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
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