Re: printer and Fedora support.

On 04/24/2018 10:53 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Tue, 24 Apr 2018 07:16:31 -0700 ToddAndMargo wrote: For scanning, check out SANE's (Common Unix Scanning System [cuss]) list of supported scanners: http://www.sane-project.org/sane-supported-devices.html I hope it is better now. The last

Re: Plymouth splash screen -

On 04/24/2018 04:35 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Reading a program's man page, if there is one, is always a good idea. The problem with some man pages is that they're written in an overly terse fashion as though they're just meant as a reminder for people who already understand the program

Re: Plymouth splash screen -

Samuel Sieb writes: On 04/24/2018 10:54 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: bobg]# Plymouth-set-default-theme tribar -R bobg]# Plymouth-set-default-theme tribar Although it shows the change to "tribar" it continues to display the original "spinner" when I reboot. Did you try regenerating the

Re: printer and Fedora support.

> > [snip] > > One thing,, if you go with a Brother multifunction unit, be sure to > download the driver insstaller, NOT the individual driver files. You > may have to dig around to find the right file, but it exists and > works once you find it. > If the printer has an installation disk my

Re: Plymouth splash screen -

On 04/24/2018 02:47 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: On 04/24/18 17:10, Bob Goodwin wrote: On 04/24/18 16:56, Samuel Sieb wrote: Did you try regenerating the initramfs with dracut? No, I've never done that, is there an instruction for doing so? It looks like I could make things worse with dracut

Re: Plymouth splash screen -

On 04/24/18 17:10, Bob Goodwin wrote: On 04/24/18 16:56, Samuel Sieb wrote: Did you try regenerating the initramfs with dracut? . No, I've never done that, is there an instruction for doing so? + + It looks like I could make things worse with dracut from what I find, |dracut

Re: Plymouth splash screen -

On 04/24/18 16:56, Samuel Sieb wrote: Did you try regenerating the initramfs with dracut? . No, I've never done that, is there an instruction for doing so? -- Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD box10 FEDORA-27/64bit LINUX XFCE Fastmail POP3

Re: Plymouth splash screen -

On 04/24/2018 10:54 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: bobg]# Plymouth-set-default-theme tribar -R bobg]# Plymouth-set-default-theme tribar Although it shows the change to "tribar" it continues to display the original "spinner" when I reboot. Did you try regenerating the initramfs with dracut?

Re: printer and Fedora support.

On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 07:16:31AM -0700, ToddAndMargo wrote: > On 04/23/2018 10:28 AM, home user via users wrote: > >I'm having to replace my 5-year old desktop printer. Like any good > >project, I start with requirements! > >1. desktop printer. > >2. the manufacturer provides real support for

Re: printer and Fedora support.

I have always found HP support to he better than other manufacturers. Their drivers are availablethey seem to have no problems when it come to multi-function, and their colors are as close as can be to perfect. But YMMV On Tue, Apr 24, 2018, 1:53 PM Tom Horsley

Plymouth splash screen -

. On this updated Fedora 27 with XFCE I have attempted to change the Plymouth screen several times, re-booted each time, and it always comes back with the same theme, I think it is called "spinner." I have another similarly configured computer and the same procedure worked without any

Re: printer and Fedora support.

On Tue, 24 Apr 2018 07:16:31 -0700 ToddAndMargo wrote: > For scanning, check out SANE's (Common Unix Scanning System > [cuss]) list of supported scanners: > http://www.sane-project.org/sane-supported-devices.html I hope it is better now. The last time I was trying to find a working scanner

Re: printer and Fedora support.

On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 12:45 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > > > The HP all-in-one devices used to be pretty good about linux > support, but I don't know if that is true any longer. The hplip > package provided the support. This isn't any help for the OP who specified that he

Re: printer and Fedora support.

On 04/23/2018 10:28 AM, home user via users wrote: I'm having to replace my 5-year old desktop printer. Like any good project, I start with requirements! 1. desktop printer. 2. the manufacturer provides real support for the printer running on Fedora as well as windows-7. 3. has printing,

Re: portable (really) Fedora on stick

On 04/23/2018 07:20 AM, Aleksandar Kostadinov wrote: Hi, I'm reading documentation [1] for Fedora on a USB stick. The only option to have a portable fedora on a stick seems to be by creating an overlay FS and this certainly leads to getting out of disk space at some point. I would really

Re: portable (really) Fedora on stick

Hi, On 23-04-18 16:20, Aleksandar Kostadinov wrote: Hi, I'm reading documentation [1] for Fedora on a USB stick. The only option to have a portable fedora on a stick seems to be by creating an overlay FS and this certainly leads to getting out of disk space at some point. I would really

Re: printer and Fedora support.

On Mon, 2018-04-23 at 14:45 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Mon, 23 Apr 2018 17:28:04 - > home user via users wrote: > > > 3. has printing, scanning, and copying. > > Good luck getting scanning to work. It may not be impossible, but > the available info on what scanners can work with linux is

Re: portable (really) Fedora on stick

On 23/04/2018 20:10, Samuel Sieb wrote: This makes all the initramfs files that dracut creates to be equivalent to the "rescue" version, meaning that they have all the kernel modules instead of just the ones for the system it was installed on. Does making the kernel equivalent to the "rescue"

Re: portable (really) Fedora on stick

On Mon, 2018-04-23 at 23:52 +0300, Aleksandar Kostadinov wrote: > ja wrote on 04/23/18 20:28: > > On Mon, 2018-04-23 at 17:20 +0300, Aleksandar Kostadinov wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I'm reading documentation [1] for Fedora on a USB stick. The only option > > > to have a portable fedora on a