[newbie] printing woes w/mdk8.0 and canon bjc-2000
CUPS isn't quite working with my Canon BJC-2000 printer on mandrake 8.0. Specifically, there are two problems: 1) I'm unable to make it print more than one page of a document from netscape or opera -- it hangs up right at the end of the first page, and then delays about 2 minutes before printing the very end, but never prints further than that. In StarOffice, it prints multiple pages, but with too-large top margins after the first page. These may be unrelated items, but they arise in the process of trying to solve the former issue of netscape/opera not printing more than one page. Oddly, when I specify either application to print *only* one page, it works fine -- ejects the page and everything. 2) I can't get true-black output from my black ink cartridge (I don't have a color cartridge installed). I have tested it with different color settings in the kups configuration, but nothing quite does it. I get grey text when it should be black. Anyone have an idea what's happening? I have heard that cups works well with the BJC-2000, but that's not really my experience so far. Can I elect to drop cups and go back to lpr? That was more of a hassle, but it worked for me on mdk7.1 for over a year! I sure would appreciate some suggestions. -- -Alan
[newbie] menudrake, mandrake 8, and windowmaker
I'm using windowmaker and a new install of mandrake 8. So far, I like mdk8.0 quite a bit -- it's working smoothly (right down to perfect installation of the nvidia drivers). However, I cannot get windowmaker to read the menu generated by menudrake. WM errors out on it, as does wmakerconf's menu importing tool. I remember that the same problem popped up with mdk7.1, but I was able to work around that by slightly modifying the default menu so that wmakerconf could read it. No luck here, though -- this seems to be a persistent problem with menudrake. Is that the case? If so, has anybody found a solution? I like the features that menudrake purports to give me, but it doesn't do me any good if it won't really work with windowmaker. Does anyone have a solution for reading the menudrake-generated menu in windowmaker? Thanks- -- -Alan
[newbie] Now I've done it -- broken X?
Hi- Why I thought this was a good idea to tinker with the week before finals I'll never know. I tried upgrading XFree86 4.0 so I could use the newly-released Nvidia drivers, but I must have missed a step or misconfigured something, because now X won't run at all. When I initially tried the upgrade (using RPMs) a couple of nights ago, I was able to run startx and get Xwindows running, no problem -- but without the accellerated drivers. I couldn't get them to install properly, nor could I get the previous nvidia drivers to work (they at least had a modicum of accelleration in them), once I had made the upgrades. xf86config wouldn't make a workable XF86Config file, but Xconfigurator could (which strikes me as very odd). Yesterday, however, when I booted up, I wasn't able to load X at all. I'm getting the error: execve failed on /etc/X11/X (errno 2). /etc/X11/X is linked to XF86_SVGA, a file which seems to be nowhere to be found -- and despite re-installing XFree86-SVGA, is still missing. I can also no longer run Xconfigurator; it dies after probing for my video card. Am I missing something serious (like bolts in my head for even trying this) or do you think this might be a config problem? (Or both -- certainly possible.) Any ideas how I can at least get X up and running again? Thanks- - alan
[newbie] silly question: mandrake 6.0 and Y2K?
I found the 6.1-Y2K page at the mandrake web site, which indicates that Helios is tested compliant. It occurred to me, "what about 6.0?" There are (I assume) plenty of us running 6.0, and while I understand linux is generally free from Y2K problems, are there any issues with Venus I should know? - alan / note my new email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /
[newbie] looking for libbz2.so?
I just downloaded the new gnome-core-1.0.9-9 RPM from the mandrake update site, and it's telling me that it needs libbz2.so -- try as I might, I can't find that file. Does anyone know where to find it? Thanks- - alan
[newbie] Canon printer problems
I'm still struggling along with my Canon BJC-2000. After first believing it simply must be a winprinter, I planned to sell it to a friend. Researching what new printer to get, I checked the database at http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/printer_list.cgi and saw that the BJC-2000 is listed as "mostly" compatible, so I'm trying to get it to work at least a little. I have it set up properly in printtool, according to the info from the compatibility database: set to the proper device (/dev/lp0) and using the correct driver (600-4000). However, when I try to print test pages, I get nothing: Trying to print text gets me an immediate error message saying: Error printing test page to lp Reason: lpr: connect: Connection refused jobs queued, but cannot start daemon. What is that telling me? How do I fix it? The other test, postscript, doesn't get errors from printtool, but klpq tells me 'waiting for lp to become ready (offline ?)' - but I think the printer's online (silly new printers don't have control panels) and that error's related to the lpr problem. I try to run lpr at the shell prompt, and get the same lpr error as above. I'm puzzled. Also, a note that may be important: I can't use lpc, either. I can get an lpc> prompt, but trying to make it actually do anything dumps me out with a segmentation fault. If I run 'lpc start lp' I get an error similar to the above, saying "lpc: connect: Connection refused. Couldn't start daemon." I have the feeling that there's something blocking the route to the printer somehow, but I don't really know where to begin unblocking it. Can anybody help? Thanks- - alan / note my new email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /
Re: [newbie] setting up printers?
I get the same error if I try printtool, linuxconf, etc, without first executing 'xhost +localhost' from a terminal window as user. Run that, and it should do what you need to run printtool. - alan / note my new email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / On Sat, 4 Sep 1999, John Aldrich wrote: > On Sat, 04 Sep 1999, alann wrote: > > open up a terminal > > > > make yourself root type ' su ' > > run printtool > > > Thanks...tried that. An almost exact quote is "cannot connect to > display :0.0, connection refused by server." > I guess I"ve got to reboot and run X as root. :-( > John >
[newbie] How daunting is a kernel upgrade?
Hi all- There's been lots of discussion here about kernel upgrades, and it seems to be a pretty daunting task to me, as a relatively new linux user but a pretty confident and competent computer user in general. My case is that I'm running Mandrake 6.0 and would like to upgrade the kernel to get rid of some of those mount/unmount errors that have been described here already. Is the best upgrade for me the one at cooker (kernel-2.2.11-2mdk.src.rpm), as opposed to the multitude of files I find at kernel.org? Is it preferable for me to stick to a Mandrake release of any given kernel? I guess what I'm looking for is a slightly more hands-on howto (I have read the kernel howtos, and what keeps me from simply following the directions is that, knowing how crucial the kernel is, I just don't want to botch it), and at this point, there seem to be an awful lot of starting places (cooker, kernel.org, the new cassini test, and so on). Those of you who are familiar with this, can you offer a little guidance? I don't need hand-holding so much as just an indication that if I, for example, start with the cooker kernel, I'll be on the right track. Thanks much- - alan / note my new email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /
Re: [newbie] Opening Windows Files
Ken and John- Thanks for the feedback. You may be right, John; regardless of how I try to set the mount, it won't let anybody but root write to it. I certainly understand the logic of not corrupting the DOS file system, but such a hard-and-fast prevention seems to short-circuit any benefit of being able to access the partition at all. It's pretty inconvenient to have to su in order to copy shared files to my windows partition, but if that's what I have to do, well I guess that's what I have to do. - alan / note my new email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, John Aldrich wrote: > On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, you wrote: > > > mount -t vfat /dev/hdax /mnt/dos (replace hdax with the > > > device where your DOS partition is.) > > > > It works fine for me, with one exception: the directory to which I mount > > my windows partition is only writeable by root, even if I chmod it after I > > mount the partition. Has anybody experienced that? > > > Umm...yeah that's for a good reason. :-) If you aren't > careful you can corrupt your DOS file system, at least > that's what I suspect is the reason for disallowing anyone > but "root" to write to the dos partition. >
Re: [newbie] Opening Windows Files
> mount -t vfat /dev/hdax /mnt/dos (replace hdax with the > device where your DOS partition is.) It works fine for me, with one exception: the directory to which I mount my windows partition is only writeable by root, even if I chmod it after I mount the partition. Has anybody experienced that? -Alan
[newbie] acrobat4 plugin for netscape?
Has anyone configured the netscape plugin for Acrobat 4? I'm having some trouble running the config script that comes with A4 under mandrake 6.0, but I don't know enough about how plugins work under Linux to really set it up on my own. Can anyone lend a hand? Thanks- -Alan / note my new email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /
Re: [newbie] WindowMaker freezes in certain situations (fwd)
Thanks for the suggestions, Matt. I've removed all the files I think were pertinent to both gnome and windowmaker, and it appears that things are again functioning normally. Here's one more general question for folks: Before I did the above, I tried a trick I found in the gnome documentation (surprise!) that describes completely resetting a user session, right back to new defaults. The docs say to hold down CTRL-SHIFT as you log in to gnome, and you'll get a dialog box that allows you to reset the session. But, at least on my PC, holding down CTRL-SHIFT didn't do anything. Has anybody used that option? Is there another way to invoke it? - alan / note my new email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /
[newbie] WindowMaker freezes in certain situations (fwd)
I sent this yesterday morning, but never saw it come through the list. I apologize if anyone receives this twice. Since I sent the first message, my inital problem is back: WindowMaker is again trying to load multiple panels and loads mulitple gmc windows at startup, even after I close those windows and save the session. Am I doing something wrong? Where are these things coming from? It worked fine through several restarts of X yesterday, but first thing this morning, the problem is back. Thanks- -Aan original message Hi- I've started to play with Gnome/WindowMaker in the last few days (Enlightenment was cool, but wow, resource-intensive). In the process of configuring my desktop, I inadvertently loaded multiple instances of gmc and panel. Subsequently, whenever I started WindowMaker, gmc and panel would try to load extra copies -- making for an unaesthetic experience because I had to cancel the extras each time and cancel the error messages alerting me to the presence of a second panel. No matter what I did, I could not get those extra instances to not load up when starting X. So my first question is, what did I do wrong and how might I have fixed it? What I ended up doing is replacing ~/GNUstep/Defaults/* with unmodified files from another account, and correcting a few path arguments in 'WindowMaker'. That seems to have partly worked, at least in the sense that extra instances of panel and gmc are not loading at startup now. However, I know that probably isn't the preferred solution; is there a way to tell WindowMaker to absolutely return to default settings? Second, since making that file switch, running certain commands in the "Run program" dialog seems to freeze up WM. Programs that I would expect to run in a terminal window, like telnet or ftp, when I try to enter them in the "run" box, hang up the whole system. CTRL-ALT-DEL usually recovers and drops me back to shell, but it doesn't always do the trick; I had to manually power down once. Did I break something by switching in the other files? Can I fix this one somehow? Thanks for any help anybody can offer- - alan / note my new email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /
Re: [newbie] Unpredictable Netscape closing?
> Sounds more like you slid a little too far down the menu and accidently > hit the 'Exit' choice instead. That would cause what you describe. > Can't say I've ever had 'Close' close all the windows. One might think, but nope, that's not what I'm doing -- it's actually the close -button- out on the upper right of the window. Sometimes it shuts down Netscape, and sometimes it just closes a single browser window. Odd, eh? -Alan
[newbie] Unpredictable Netscape closing?
Hi- Here's one that's not really a problem, but it's an annoying "feature" of Netscape 4.6 on Mandrake 6.0. When I have multiple navigator windows open, the behavior of the "close" icon in the upper right of the window is unpredictable: Sometimes it closes only the particular navigator window, which is almost always what I want it to do, as that behavior is similar to other mulit-window browsers. But sometimes it shuts down Netscape entirely, including all my other windows. I know, I know, "upgrade" will be my answer, and I will do so. But I'm curious: has anyone else encountered this behavior? It takes me by surprise every time. -Alan
Re: [newbie] How to use Gnome w/Mandrake 6.0?
Related to this thread: When I reinstalled Mandrake 6.0 some time ago, I mistakenly didn't install Ghome. I have since reinstalled it, but it doesn't show up in the graphical K login. How do I re-place it as an option on that screen? Thanks- -Alan On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, John May wrote: > You can choose it out of the drop-down box in the K Login box. If you aren't using >that, you can > change your desktop with desktopcfg or switchdesk. Type either of the two at the >command > prompt as your normal user. > > > * > Original message from: Jim Snyder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Hi > > > >How do I use Gnome with Mandrake 6.0? > > > >I am really happy with KDE except for occasional lockups but would like to try > >Gnome. > > > >Many thanks. > > > >Jim >
[newbie] Missing .h files
I sent this a couple of days ago, but never saw it show up on the list. Perhaps it got burped out somewhere. On my new PC, mandrake 6.0 has worked really well -- even kppp is working flawlessly! But when I tried to compile some downloaded software the other day, I hit a wall of errors. First, make was missing, and I had to install it from an RPM. The second error I'm now getting is that all the .h files that I expected were standard (stdio.h, string.h, math.h, etc) are also missing. I can't find them anywhere. After installing gcc and all the libraries I came across on the RPM CD, they're still nowhere to be found. I'm inclined to think that since make was originally missing, I must have mistakenly not installed some things when I made the initial installation. Any suggestions for ensuring that I have all the proper packages installed to fix this one? Thanks much- -Alan
[newbie] printing w/Mandrake 6 and bjc-2000
Hi- First problem of the day is printing from Mandrake 6 with my Canon BJC-2000. I don't get any kind of response from the printer when I send jobs to it. Printtool identifies a printer on /dev/lp0, and indicates to me that it is successfully sending test pages to it, but the printer never does anything -- and yes, the printer is connected. lpc never show any print jobs or anything getting through. Could I be missing a package or something? I'd expect the printer to do something if it's really receiving data, and I'd feel a little puzzled if it even printed garbage; but at least I'd have a starting point. Any suggestions from you folks? (And if I actually get the printer to do something, has anyone put together ghostscript configuration for the bjc2000?) Thanks - -Alan
[newbie] BJC-2000 printer
Is anyone successfully using Mandrake 6.0 with a canon BJC-2000? Thanks- -alan | note my new non-Whitman email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | Bye-bye Whitman; I'll be writing from U of Arizona in August! |
Re: [newbie] new computer means new linux questions
Thanks, Sean. The nvidia drivers did the trick! -alan | note my new non-Whitman email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | Bye-bye Whitman; I'll be writing from U of Arizona in August! |
[newbie] new computer means new linux questions
I'm installing mandrake 6.0 on a new PC, and the first problem I've run into is with X. Xconfigurator identifies my video card (Diamond v770), but is then unable to probe it, and when I try to manually configure it I get a prompt for my clockchip -- and I have no idea what my clockchip is. I assume that means the clock on the video card, but I'm not positive. Does anyone know what the chip is? If I don't enter a clockchip, all I can select is low-resolution x 8-bit color, which sure seems like a waste of good computing power. Otherwise, Xconfigurator errors out starting the x server. Thanks, all- -alan | note my new non-Whitman email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | Bye-bye Whitman; I'll be writing from U of Arizona in August! |
Re: [newbie] Linux Startup Programs
This is a sort of peripheral question. I've used unix for several years -- lots of use in college, until I graduated, anyway -- but that path/file has got to be about the most arcane thing I've ever seen. Yes, I'm new to linux and actually getting behind the scenes of a *nix box, but is there rhyme or reason to that convention? Relatedly, is there any kind of reference that lists those "standard" unix system files and explains their purpose? That would go a long way in helping me feel like I really have a handle on what I'm doing. -Alan On Sat, 17 Jul 1999, Marc Indekeu wrote: > /etc/rc.d/rc.local can be used for that purpose. It gets executed when linux boots. > > later > -Oorspronkelijk bericht- > Van: Lei Tie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Datum: zaterdag 17 juli 1999 19:14 > Onderwerp: [newbie] Linux Startup Programs > > > Hi, if i want to make linux to start a program automatically when it boots, what >file should I modify? Let's just say that my file is /sbin/file, where do I add this >line of command? > thank you. > -alan | note my new non-Whitman email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | Bye-bye Whitman; I'll be writing from U of Arizona in August! |
[newbie] sorting out kppp problems
Hi everybody- My problem still stems from trying to use ppp as user, rather than root. I can get kppp to do something, but not to successfully negotiate a ppp connection, when I run it as a user. Since I can get kppp to at least dial, I've tried to work backwards from that point, to either debug kppp and get it to actually achieve a ppp connection, or to copy kppp's process and apply it to a script that I can run as user. More details are below: Can anyone help me make sense of this one? kppp dials the modem and -almost- works when I run as user. However, I always get an error after connecting to my ISP, "LCP: timout on config-request", and kppp tells me the remote server may not be configured properly. Running a script from the consoler as root, I can connect just fine. Under kppp, when I run a ps and look at the pppd process, I get this: 100 S root 1196 1185 1 66 0 - 382 do_sel 13:29 ttyS1 00:00:00 \ pppd -detach crtscts defaultroute -chap user alan debug 1) what is -chap doing there? I have pap set in kppp's config; is that possibly the reason for the LCP timeout on cfgreq error? 2) what does kppp do to actually run pppd as root? Whatever I do, I cannot make my term script do anything unless I run it as root. If I can mimic whatever kppp is doing to access pppd and the modem, maybe I can skip it altogether and just keep using my script, but as user rather than root. -- I know the easy answer to that is suid on pppd, but that does nothing for me. In some instances, I get an error that access is prohibited to /dev/ttyS1; in others, I get errors that I can't use "name" with pppd except as root -- are there ways around this? I've been working on this since almost day one of using linux, and keep hoping that by providing more information here I'll get some good ideas. If anyone has any suggestions, please let me know. Thanks much- -alan
Re: [newbie] Still slogging my way through ppp
On Sun, 27 Jun 1999, Stefan Dozier wrote: > At 12:20 AM 6/27/99 -0600, you wrote: > > >Second, which will be just as significant, is that when I run my script as > >anything but root, I get the error that permission is denied on ttyS1, my > >modem. There must be some way around that, right? -- but modifying the > >permissions on ttyS1 doesn't do it. I do have kppd suid. How should I > >proceed? > > Have you tried setting `chat' suid ? > > That works for me, although I still using the 5.3 version of mdk. Yep, I sure have, but I still get: Failed to open /dev/ttyS1: Permission denied. -alan | note my new non-Whitman email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | Bye-bye Whitman; I'll be writing from U of Arizona in August! |
[newbie] hard drive errors on linux boot?
Hi- I just encountered some hard drive errors on bootup. A portion of my boot seqence is below: /dev/hda7 reached maximal mount count, check forced I then had a long disk read, followed by something to the effect of: hard drive has errors, run fsck MANUALLY, without options I entered the root pw, and got a prompt. I ran fsck on hda7 and received this message: i_faddr for inode 360590 (/usr/share/applnk/System/switchdesk.kdelnk) is 65536, clear? I answered yes, and eventually got some "everything seems okay" messages from fsck, then rebooted, and everything seems to be all right now. But I'm curious what happened -- what does maximal mount count mean, and does the "i_faddr..." msg really tell me? Is there something I'm perhaps doing that I shouldn't be doing? (Is it a problem with not properly unmounting a windows drive?) Thanks again- -alan | note my new non-Whitman email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | Bye-bye Whitman; I'll be writing from U of Arizona in August! |
Re: [newbie] ppp question
On Sun, 27 Jun 1999, Michael Norris wrote: > I just istalled version 6.0 (previous was 5.0). Now when I start up ppp, > using my old 5.1 ppp-on script, the ppp0.pid is placed in /etc/ppp > instead of /var/run. Is this the way this is supposed to work in version > 6.0, is there a fix for this? The same thing happens when I use > linuxconf to make the ppp connection, or if I use kppp. I've noticed the same thing in Mandrake 6 -- I had to modify the paths in /etc/ppp/ppp-down to get it to disconnect and hang up properly, but it hasn't apparently caused problems (it's one thing I've successfully worked around, though of course I'm still having my own share of troubles!). I guess the thing I'm curious about is if that can cause any problems I'm not aware of? -Alan | note my new non-Whitman email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | Bye-bye Whitman; I'll be writing from U of Arizona in August! |
[newbie] Still slogging my way through ppp
Hi all- I'm starting to get the hang of all this, but could use some more advice. The core of my problem is that I can't get a dialup ppp connection without going to root and jumping through some hoops, which makes linux decidedly impractical for people like my girlfriend or houseguests to use it. I have a pppd call + chat script that works great from root; the problem is that it uses 'pppd [...] name alan [...]'. pppd's name option can only be called from root, so I have tried to put my ISP login name and password in my chat script, but to no avail. It kills it every time. It appears that putting that info in the chat script starts some sort of qualitatively different communication with my isp dialin server -- instead of getting LCP requests and the like, I get a text prompt for a system password -- which sure gets me nowhere! My ISP has been pretty un-helpful on that note. Does anyone have any ideas at all on that one? Second, which will be just as significant, is that when I run my script as anything but root, I get the error that permission is denied on ttyS1, my modem. There must be some way around that, right? -- but modifying the permissions on ttyS1 doesn't do it. I do have kppd suid. How should I proceed? Thanks much for any advice- -alan
