Anne Wilson wrote:
On Thursday 11 Nov 2004 22:54, Jack wrote:
Canon gear is always hard, as they will not cooperate in releasing api
details. However, it is sometimes possible to get things to work. Did you
ask any specific questions about this?
Yes, I did, to no avail. The printer works off of a USB port.
Installation sees it but can't do anything with it. The suggestion it
gives is raw printer (which as you know means no printer driver).
3 - Couldn't upgrade to KDE 3.3, despite having the CD for it and
despite help from experts like Randall. I spent *weeks* on this.
Nothing I tried worked, nor did any suggestions work.
This is not a task for a newbie.
Well... yes Anne, I am a *Linux* newbie but I'm not a newbie to
computers. I used to teach DOS courses. I used to consult in the
Windows world. And finally, I used to assemble and sell PC's. I am
able to follow most suggestions and understand what they're attempting
to do. However, the suggestions *don't work,* to the surprise of
experts like Randall.
5 - Most damning of all was my attempted upgrade to 10.1 official. I
completely wiped my drive to do a clean install, and after everything
was said and done, the official version could not find the internet, nor
my onboard (Asus P4P800) sound card.
You probably didn't check all the Configuration options late in the install.
There is no reason why those could not have been persuaded to work.
All desired configuration options were checked. As mentioned above, I
am not brain-dead when it comes to computers. The installation
reported that *it couldn't find* my ethernet card, nor my sound
device. What's really perplexing is that this wasn't a problem with
10.0 or 10.1 community.
What questions did you ask, and where?
There were a few... most recently, I filled out the FTP request form
for the 10.1 official ISO's. I filled this form out *twice* as nothing
happened. I then sent email to them asking what had happened to my
request - no response. This was not surprising to me, as every single
time I have emailed them, I have received dead silence as a response.
I see great potential in Linux and I will maintain my dual-boot system,
slowly learning to survive in Linux while waiting (and hoping) for the
operating system to mature to a more usable state...
I may sound harsh, Jack, but you have to realised that
a) you're a newbie, and don't know enough to make things easy
I certainly don't expect things to be easy but I do expect them to be
doable.
b) you've chosen a bleeding edge distro, so somethings have to be tweaked
until things work correctly
c) you're ambitious (good thing) and try things that you're not ready for
(good, but risky)
Tell me about it!!! That Linux image I have has saved my butt more than once. But how else do you learn if you don't try things?
- Jack
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