A friend of mine has a Mac G4 something or other. She had been running Yellow Dog on it, but we couldn't figure out how to get a new printer working. While reformatting everything anyway, we decided to try kubuntu.
FYI: With both Yellow Dog and Kubuntu we ran into yaboot problems, but seem to have that sorted out. Printers: Kubuntu knows about the Epson R220 printer. On my own PC systems I configure it as an R300 and it works fine. The problem is we can't get the system to "see" the printer properly. It shows up in /proc/bus/usb/drivers, and we were able to get YDL 4.1 to print complete junk on it, but we can't get Kubuntu to do anything. Two of the offered drivers refuse to configure (stating something about a missing driver and/or permission denied) and the other reports that the printer is disconnected despite what /proc says. We used a uri to identify the printer: usb://EPSON/Stylus%20Photo%20R220 This was taken from a PC laptop that works with the very same printer. I could type for ever about possibly irrelivant or misleading details, but I'm not sure that would be useful. Any suggestions? Gnu Cash: Any suggestions on finding a gnucash package that will run on this system? ...or strategies for finding packages that are not obviously listed? I find it easy to google for rpm packages for PCs. I've been less successful looking for deb packages for PPC. rpmfind.net doesn't do the trick for me. :-) Thanks! Ty -- Tyson D Sawyer A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures. - Daniel Webster _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss