Re: some weird shape

[Ron Johnson]

On 2010-03-15 00:54, Eugene M. Zheganin wrote:

Hi.

I got a Debian 5.0.3 installation, made by some engineer before me.
I got a weird problem on that host: all of the apache2 sessions are 
limited by 400 kBytes/sec. First I thought this is some limitation made 
by tc, but 'tc qdisc show' and 'tc class show' displays only defaults. 
Second thought - there's some apache mod, like mod_throttle or something 
like that. But further investigations show that there's no such thing. I 
didn't find any known bandwidth limiting module. This server is 
installed in the ISP datacenter, but this definitely cannot be made by 
an ISP, because localhost sessions are shaped too.


So I'm writing this hoping that may be someone would have an idea about 
what is this, or may be someone will point me at something I forgot.

Thanks.


What if you install a different, light httpd in /usr/local/bin 
connecting to port 81.  That would eliminate or confirm that Apache 
is the culprit.


How fast can you ftp or scp files?  That would also be useful info.

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Re: Re: building entire Lenny from source

[Malebogo Madigela]

Hello tshepang..I am hoping that it is you the son of Steve Lekhonkhobe
from Mafikeng..I have just been asking myself gore where are you, are
you well and how is life treating you..

 

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Re: hp laserjet 1200 repeated ... (part 2)

[Ron Johnson]

On 2010-03-14 23:55, Mitchell Laks wrote:
[snip]


it isnt a package install issue. In fact this is one of my main issues with 
cups.
Cups is the ONLY package on my computer that requires any gui action at all.

It is anti linux! I need to log in to an apache server on
localhost:631 to choose
the driver for my (usb) connected printer and answer stupid questions.

This is really annoying to me.
I do everything else on the command line. I can't find any decent
documentation to use any simple file editing to control this!!!


lpadmin *might* be what you're looking for.

Also, lpinfo, lpstat, cupsaccept and lpq.


I know what to edit in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf to run the server but nothing about 
choosing
the driver and installing it for a printer connected directly to the machine __without__ using the 
web interface.


If you know how to that would be helpful. I am willing to have it reinstall the 
printer
hourly or even every 5 minutes if necessary via cron :).



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some weird shape

[Eugene M. Zheganin]

Hi.

I got a Debian 5.0.3 installation, made by some engineer before me.
I got a weird problem on that host: all of the apache2 sessions are 
limited by 400 kBytes/sec. First I thought this is some limitation made 
by tc, but 'tc qdisc show' and 'tc class show' displays only defaults. 
Second thought - there's some apache mod, like mod_throttle or something 
like that. But further investigations show that there's no such thing. I 
didn't find any known bandwidth limiting module. This server is 
installed in the ISP datacenter, but this definitely cannot be made by 
an ISP, because localhost sessions are shaped too.


So I'm writing this hoping that may be someone would have an idea about 
what is this, or may be someone will point me at something I forgot.

Thanks.

Eugene.


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Re: hp laserjet 1200 repeated ... (part 2)

[Mitchell Laks]

On 23:19 Sun 14 Mar , Ron Johnson wrote:
> 
> Presumably you've tried simply bouncing the cups daemon with:
> /etc/init.d/cups restart

of course, to no avail. 

> You could also do something mind-blowingly crude like adding code to
> /etc/rc.local to reinstall the packages(s) at (for your father)
> boot-time or (for your work PC) to root's crontab at 3AM.

it isnt a package install issue. In fact this is one of my main issues with 
cups.
Cups is the ONLY package on my computer that requires any gui action at all.

It is anti linux! I need to log in to an apache server on
localhost:631 to choose
the driver for my (usb) connected printer and answer stupid questions.

This is really annoying to me.
I do everything else on the command line. I can't find any decent
documentation to use any simple file editing to control this!!!

I know what to edit in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf to run the server but nothing about 
choosing
the driver and installing it for a printer connected directly to the machine 
__without__ using the 
web interface.

If you know how to that would be helpful. I am willing to have it reinstall the 
printer
hourly or even every 5 minutes if necessary via cron :).

Mitchell





> 
> That might work around the problem long enough to hear something
> from the hplip or cups people.
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Re: hp laserjet 1200 repeated ... (part 2)

[Ron Johnson]

On 2010-03-14 22:28, Mitchell Laks wrote:
[snip]


I will also check to  see if it is a problem caused by
rebooting, Dad keeps rebooting his machine, while I do not reboot nor at work.



Presumably you've tried simply bouncing the cups daemon with:
/etc/init.d/cups restart

You could also do something mind-blowingly crude like adding code to 
/etc/rc.local to reinstall the packages(s) at (for your father) 
boot-time or (for your work PC) to root's crontab at 3AM.


That might work around the problem long enough to hear something 
from the hplip or cups people.


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Re: hp laserjet 1200 repeated printer-state-message="/usr/lib/cups/backend/hp failed" usb

[Ron Johnson]

On 2010-03-14 22:28, Mitchell Laks wrote:

On 22:05 Sun 14 Mar , Ron Johnson wrote:

3 PCs or 3 printers?


Three different pcs, each with a hp printer directly connected to it via a usb 
cable using cups printing.


Note that cups has always been flakey for me. So I have not infrequently had
to reinstall the printer driver to get it working over the years. I have used debian 
since 2002 or so. Before that redhat 7.3.




Cups has been the opposite for me: rock stable.  Since I run Sid, 
I'm of course constantly getting point upgrades, but as for 
problems: nada.


My system is pretty different though: a Dell 3100cn network printer 
that uses some Lexmark driver.


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Re: hp laserjet 1200 repeated printer-state-message="/usr/lib/cups/backend/hp failed" usb

[Mitchell Laks]

On 22:05 Sun 14 Mar , Ron Johnson wrote:
> 
> 3 PCs or 3 printers?

Three different pcs, each with a hp printer directly connected to it via a usb 
cable using cups printing.

Note that cups has always been flakey for me. So I have not infrequently had
to reinstall the printer driver to get it working over the years. I have used 
debian 
since 2002 or so. Before that redhat 7.3.

My guess about usb is  only that, a guess . I reverted at home to the parport 
connection
today in frustration. It may simply be accidentally that I switched to the usb
version when I thought I might  get greater throughput and faster printing
than with the 'older' parport approach.

My family is up in arms about this printing so I will need to explore
this idea over the next week or so. 

So today after the switch my computer prints, but that is
not a victory. Let me see if it keeps on printing tomorrow etc. 

The usb connection method  printed the first day also,
it just forgets how to in a day or so... 

I will also check to  see if it is a problem caused by
rebooting, Dad keeps rebooting his machine, while I do not reboot nor at work.

> 
> *Anything* physically, literally common?  Even something that seems
> minor and inconsequential?
> 
> Maybe going through a hub?  Especially an un-powered or cheap hub.
nope. direct usb connect.
> 
> If there's nothing there, and it really does consistently work
> though the parport, then next step is to go to a cups-dedicated
> list.

yeah i guess so. but googling  i find random notes that sound similar
all over the web. I have always had a love hate thing with cups. Nice when
it works, but so finicky and difficult when it doesn't. Blame apple :).

> Appreciate that.
> 
Keep up the good work!


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Re: aptitude package filtering

[Freeman]

On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 06:19:36PM -0400, Andrew Reid wrote:
> On Sunday 14 March 2010 17:54:25 Freeman wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 05:23:11PM -0400, Yavuz Yetim wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I would like to list all packages installed from testing. How can I do
> > > that? First limiting to ~installed and then searching ~archive(testing)
> > > gives me packages that are...
> >
> > I think you'd be better off with something like
> >
> >  $ apt-show-versions | gerp testing
> 
>   I love this list -- I've been mucking about with Debian for
> years, and had never run across apt-show-versions.
> 
>   I even discovered that there's an update for my lenny-backports
> version of OpenOffice.
> 
>   On my system, packages show up with the distro name, not the 
> distro status (i.e. "squeeze" and "lenny", not "testing" or "stable"),
> but aside from that it works as described.
> 
>   -- A.

[OMG look at my ugly typo and that on top of turning up really late.]

Interesting. I doubt it has to do with the designation in sources.list.
Could be wrong. Squeeze shows up in lines of my testing results but only by
happenstance.

free...@europa:~$ apt-show-versions | grep squeeze
linux-headers-2.6.30-2-686/testing uptodate 2.6.30-8squeeze1
linux-headers-2.6.30-2-common/testing uptodate 2.6.30-8squeeze1
linux-image-2.6.30-2-686/testing uptodate 2.6.30-8squeeze1
free...@europa:~$

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Re: hp laserjet 1200 repeated printer-state-message="/usr/lib/cups/backend/hp failed" usb

[Ron Johnson]

On 2010-03-14 21:45, Wayne wrote:

Mitchell Laks wrote:

On 16:36 Sun 14 Mar , Ron Johnson wrote:
 

Dumb question: what does the error_log file say?


!!! That is from the error_log  :)

ls /var/log/cups/
access_log   access_log.5.gz  error_log.1.gz   error_log.6.gz   
page_log.3.gz
access_log.1.gz  access_log.6.gz  error_log.2.gz   error_log.7.gz   
page_log.4.gz
access_log.2.gz  access_log.7.gz  error_log.3.gz   page_log 
page_log.5.gz
access_log.3.gz  access_log.O error_log.4.gz   page_log.1.gz
page_log.6.gz
access_log.4.gz  error_logerror_log.5.gz   page_log.2.gz
page_log.7.gz


the info i quoted  was the info content in the error_log 



Having the same problem here with an HP 6P.  This has been going on 
since December.  Error log show what you get  and then some.


Getting 500 Internal Server Error from all but the admin pages so can't
ever see the printer/classes, etc.

E [14/Mar/2010:20:43:21 -0400] [cups-driverd] Bad driver information 
file "/usr/share/ppd/postscript/Kyocera/kyocera_ppd_8.2.txt"!
E [14/Mar/2010:20:43:21 -0400] [cups-driverd] Bad driver information 
file "/usr/share/ppd/postscript/Kyocera/ReadMe.htm"!
W [14/Mar/2010:20:43:21 -0400] [CGI] Missing Product in 
/usr/share/ppd/hp-ppd/HP/HP_DeskJet_600C_Photo_Series.ppd!
W [14/Mar/2010:20:43:21 -0400] [CGI] Missing Product in 
/usr/share/ppd/hp-ppd/HP/HP_DeskJet_900C_Series.ppd!
W [14/Mar/2010:20:43:21 -0400] [CGI] Missing Product in 
/usr/share/ppd/hp-ppd/HP/HP_DeskJet_990C.ppd!

--
W [14/Mar/2010:20:43:21 -0400] [CGI] Missing Product in 
/usr/share/ppd/hp-ppd/HP/HP_DeskJet_350C.ppd!
W [14/Mar/2010:20:43:21 -0400] [CGI] Missing Product in 
/usr/share/ppd/hp-ppd/HP/HP_DeskJet_600C_Series.ppd!
W [14/Mar/2010:20:43:21 -0400] [CGI] Missing Product in 
/usr/share/ppd/hp-ppd/HP/HP_DeskJet_630C.ppd!
E [14/Mar/2010:20:43:43 -0400] PID 19209 
(/usr/lib/cups/cgi-bin/jobs.cgi) crashed on signal 6!
E [14/Mar/2010:20:43:50 -0400] PID 19352 
(/usr/lib/cups/cgi-bin/printers.cgi) crashed on signal 6!



Upgraded cups for the last time today.  It great when it works but a 
real pain when it doesn't.  Going back to lpr/magicfilter which always

worked.



Signal 6 is SIGABRT.  I'd file a bug against hplip.

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Re: hp laserjet 1200 repeated printer-state-message="/usr/lib/cups/backend/hp failed" usb

[Mitchell Laks]

On 22:45 Sun 14 Mar , Wayne wrote:
> Upgraded cups for the last time today.  It great when it works but a
> real pain when it doesn't.  Going back to lpr/magicfilter which
> always
> worked.

If you would post about that, or give me a reference I would be grateful.
I have not used anything other than cups in > 8 years...

Thanks
Mitchell

> 
> Good luck - you are not alone anyway, if that matters.
> 
> Wayne
> 
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Re: hp laserjet 1200 repeated printer-state-message="/usr/lib/cups/backend/hp failed" usb

[Ron Johnson]

On 2010-03-14 21:52, Mitchell Laks wrote:

On 21:25 Sun 14 Mar , Ron Johnson wrote:

Here's what my Sid system reports:


[snip]


and 


file /usr/share/ppd/postscript/Kyocera/kyocera_ppd_8.2.txt
/usr/share/ppd/postscript/Kyocera/kyocera_ppd_8.2.txt: ASCII English text


Loose connection somewhere?


i have had flaky printing (ie intermittent stopping of printing)
on all three machines with the standard install of cups.
2 machines are running sid and my dad's is an old 4.0 install because all he 
needs is openoffice and internet.



3 PCs or 3 printers?

*Anything* physically, literally common?  Even something that seems 
minor and inconsequential?


Maybe going through a hub?  Especially an un-powered or cheap hub.

If there's nothing there, and it really does consistently work 
though the parport, then next step is to go to a cups-dedicated list.





I chose the Postscript recommended option in the hp drivers section in cups...


Thank you for your interest Ron, you have been very helpful in the past too!



Appreciate that.

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Re: hp laserjet 1200 repeated printer-state-message="/usr/lib/cups/backend/hp failed" usb

[Mitchell Laks]

On 21:25 Sun 14 Mar , Ron Johnson wrote:
> Here's what my Sid system reports:
> 
> $ dir /usr/share/ppd/postscript/Kyocera/
> total 144
> drwxr-xr-x  8 root root 36864 2009-06-17 20:17:34 ./
> drwxr-xr-x 17 root root  4096 2009-03-14 08:17:14 ../
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 12288 2009-06-17 20:17:34 de/
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 16384 2009-06-17 20:17:34 en/
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 12288 2009-06-17 20:17:34 es/
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 12288 2009-06-17 20:17:34 fr/
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 12288 2009-06-17 20:17:34 it/
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root  4234 2009-06-16 02:21:34 kyocera_ppd_8.2.txt
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 12288 2009-06-17 20:17:34 pt/
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 19596 2009-06-16 02:21:34 ReadMe.htm


and here is mine
ls /home/mlaks# ls /usr/share/ppd/postscript/Kyocera/ -ltr
total 52
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 19596 Jun 16  2009 ReadMe.htm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  4234 Jun 16  2009 kyocera_ppd_8.2.txt
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Nov 10 00:54 pt
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Nov 10 00:54 fr
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Nov 10 00:54 it
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Nov 10 00:54 es
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Nov 10 00:54 en
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Nov 10 00:54 de

and 

file /usr/share/ppd/postscript/Kyocera/kyocera_ppd_8.2.txt
/usr/share/ppd/postscript/Kyocera/kyocera_ppd_8.2.txt: ASCII English text

> Loose connection somewhere?

i have had flaky printing (ie intermittent stopping of printing)
on all three machines with the standard install of cups.
2 machines are running sid and my dad's is an old 4.0 install because all he 
needs is openoffice and internet.

> Understandable.
> 
> What exactly is the printer driver you are using?  hplip?

yep i have that installed and i use
Rashi:/home/mlaks# dpkg -l|grep hplip
ii  hplip3.10.2-1   
   HP Linux Printing and Imaging System (HPLIP)
ii  hplip-cups   3.10.2-1   
   HP Linux Printing and Imaging - CUPS Raster dr
ii  hplip-data   3.10.2-1   
   HP Linux Printing and Imaging - data files
ii  hplip-doc3.10.2-1   
   HP Linux Printing and Imaging - documentation
ii  hplip-gui3.10.2-1   
   HP Linux Printing and Imaging - GUI utilities

and on the sid machine I have:

i  cups 1.4.2-9.1   
  Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - server
ii  cups-bsd 1.4.2-9.1  
   Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - BSD commands
ii  cups-client  1.4.2-9.1  
   Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - client progr
ii  cups-common  1.4.2-9.1  
   Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - common files
ii  cups-driver-gutenprint   5.2.4-1
   printer drivers for CUPS
ii  cups-ppdc1.4.2-9.1  
   Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - PPD manipula
ii  cupsddk  1.4.2-9.1  
   Common UNIX Printing System (transitional pack
ii  cupsys   1.4.2-9.1  
   Common UNIX Printing System (transitional pack
ii  cupsys-bsd   1.4.2-9.1  
   Common UNIX Printing System (transitional pack
ii  cupsys-client1.4.2-9.1  
   Common UNIX Printing System (transitional pack
ii  cupsys-common1.4.2-9.1  
   Common UNIX Printing System (transitional pack
ii  ghostscript-cups 8.71~dfsg-2
   The GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF interpreter
rc  gnome-cups-manager   0.31-3+b1  
   CUPS printer admin tool for GNOME
ii  hal-cups-utils   0.6.16-3   
   Utilities to detect and configure printers aut
ii  hplip-cups   3.10.2-1   
   HP Linux Printing and Imaging - CUPS Raster dr
ii  libcups2 1.4.2-9.1  
   Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - Core library
ii  libcups2-dev 1.4.2-9.1  
   Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - Development
ii  libcupscgi1  1.4.2-9.1  
   Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - CGI library
ii  libcupsdriver1   1.4.2-9.1  
   Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - Driver libra
ii  libcupsimage21.4.2-9.1  
   Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -

Re: hp laserjet 1200 repeated printer-state-message="/usr/lib/cups/backend/hp failed" usb

[Wayne]

Mitchell Laks wrote:

On 16:36 Sun 14 Mar , Ron Johnson wrote:
 

Dumb question: what does the error_log file say?


!!! That is from the error_log  :)

ls /var/log/cups/
access_log   access_log.5.gz  error_log.1.gz   error_log.6.gz   
page_log.3.gz
access_log.1.gz  access_log.6.gz  error_log.2.gz   error_log.7.gz   
page_log.4.gz
access_log.2.gz  access_log.7.gz  error_log.3.gz   page_log 
page_log.5.gz
access_log.3.gz  access_log.O error_log.4.gz   page_log.1.gz
page_log.6.gz
access_log.4.gz  error_logerror_log.5.gz   page_log.2.gz
page_log.7.gz

the info i quoted  was the info content in the error_log 



Having the same problem here with an HP 6P.  This has been going on 
since December.  Error log show what you get  and then some.


Getting 500 Internal Server Error from all but the admin pages so can't
ever see the printer/classes, etc.

E [14/Mar/2010:20:43:21 -0400] [cups-driverd] Bad driver information 
file "/usr/share/ppd/postscript/Kyocera/kyocera_ppd_8.2.txt"!
E [14/Mar/2010:20:43:21 -0400] [cups-driverd] Bad driver information 
file "/usr/share/ppd/postscript/Kyocera/ReadMe.htm"!
W [14/Mar/2010:20:43:21 -0400] [CGI] Missing Product in 
/usr/share/ppd/hp-ppd/HP/HP_DeskJet_600C_Photo_Series.ppd!
W [14/Mar/2010:20:43:21 -0400] [CGI] Missing Product in 
/usr/share/ppd/hp-ppd/HP/HP_DeskJet_900C_Series.ppd!
W [14/Mar/2010:20:43:21 -0400] [CGI] Missing Product in 
/usr/share/ppd/hp-ppd/HP/HP_DeskJet_990C.ppd!

--
W [14/Mar/2010:20:43:21 -0400] [CGI] Missing Product in 
/usr/share/ppd/hp-ppd/HP/HP_DeskJet_350C.ppd!
W [14/Mar/2010:20:43:21 -0400] [CGI] Missing Product in 
/usr/share/ppd/hp-ppd/HP/HP_DeskJet_600C_Series.ppd!
W [14/Mar/2010:20:43:21 -0400] [CGI] Missing Product in 
/usr/share/ppd/hp-ppd/HP/HP_DeskJet_630C.ppd!
E [14/Mar/2010:20:43:43 -0400] PID 19209 
(/usr/lib/cups/cgi-bin/jobs.cgi) crashed on signal 6!
E [14/Mar/2010:20:43:50 -0400] PID 19352 
(/usr/lib/cups/cgi-bin/printers.cgi) crashed on signal 6!



Upgraded cups for the last time today.  It great when it works but a 
real pain when it doesn't.  Going back to lpr/magicfilter which always

worked.

Good luck - you are not alone anyway, if that matters.

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Re: hp laserjet 1200 repeated printer-state-message="/usr/lib/cups/backend/hp failed" usb

[Ron Johnson]

On 2010-03-14 21:12, Mitchell Laks wrote:

On 16:36 Sun 14 Mar , Ron Johnson wrote:
 

Dumb question: what does the error_log file say?


!!! That is from the error_log  :)


I wonder why the error_log would say "please consult the error_log 
file".  Very "interesting".


[snip]




E [14/Mar/2010:11:39:54 -0400] [cups-driverd] Bad driver information file 
"/usr/share/ppd/postscript/Kyocera/kyocera_ppd_8.2.txt"!


from another line in the log. 


Here's what my Sid system reports:

$ dir /usr/share/ppd/postscript/Kyocera/
total 144
drwxr-xr-x  8 root root 36864 2009-06-17 20:17:34 ./
drwxr-xr-x 17 root root  4096 2009-03-14 08:17:14 ../
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 12288 2009-06-17 20:17:34 de/
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 16384 2009-06-17 20:17:34 en/
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 12288 2009-06-17 20:17:34 es/
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 12288 2009-06-17 20:17:34 fr/
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 12288 2009-06-17 20:17:34 it/
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  4234 2009-06-16 02:21:34 kyocera_ppd_8.2.txt
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 12288 2009-06-17 20:17:34 pt/
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 19596 2009-06-16 02:21:34 ReadMe.htm

$ file /usr/share/ppd/postscript/Kyocera/kyocera_ppd_8.2.txt
/usr/share/ppd/postscript/Kyocera/kyocera_ppd_8.2.txt: ASCII English 
text




Note that I never owned any other printer than the HP 1200 (at work a 1300).

I never had this problem with the  lp0 connection. Only with the USB connection.


Loose connection somewhere?

Trouble is I have 3 machines (hp 1200 or 1300) - work/home/my parents  
3 are now with usb connections. I only have

one parallel connector for home, to revert to.
i have the same failing driver in each place. Cups stops printing 
every few days and I have to

reinstall the driver whenever I want to print. It is annoying to my dad who 
cannot
print when I am not there...



Understandable.

What exactly is the printer driver you are using?  hplip?

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Re: hp laserjet 1200 repeated printer-state-message="/usr/lib/cups/backend/hp failed" usb

[Mitchell Laks]

On 16:36 Sun 14 Mar , Ron Johnson wrote:
 
> Dumb question: what does the error_log file say?

!!! That is from the error_log  :)

ls /var/log/cups/
access_log   access_log.5.gz  error_log.1.gz   error_log.6.gz   
page_log.3.gz
access_log.1.gz  access_log.6.gz  error_log.2.gz   error_log.7.gz   
page_log.4.gz
access_log.2.gz  access_log.7.gz  error_log.3.gz   page_log 
page_log.5.gz
access_log.3.gz  access_log.O error_log.4.gz   page_log.1.gz
page_log.6.gz
access_log.4.gz  error_logerror_log.5.gz   page_log.2.gz
page_log.7.gz

the info i quoted  was the info content in the error_log 



> >E [14/Mar/2010:11:39:54 -0400] [cups-driverd] Bad driver information file 
> >"/usr/share/ppd/postscript/Kyocera/kyocera_ppd_8.2.txt"!

from another line in the log. 

Note that I never owned any other printer than the HP 1200 (at work a 1300).

I never had this problem with the  lp0 connection. Only with the USB connection.

Trouble is I have 3 machines (hp 1200 or 1300) - work/home/my parents  
3 are now with usb connections. I only have
one parallel connector for home, to revert to.
i have the same failing driver in each place. Cups stops printing 
every few days and I have to
reinstall the driver whenever I want to print. It is annoying to my dad who 
cannot
print when I am not there...

Bad news. 

> >
> >
> >strange I am using the recommended Postscript en driver and what is this 
> >about Kyocera?
> >
> >I am tempted to switch back to the parallel port connection ,,,
> >
> >Mitchell
> >
> >
> 
> 
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Re: Wireless support

[Celejar]

[Please don't top post.]

On Sun, 14 Mar 2010 21:43:59 -0400
Jacob Tennant  wrote:

> Please describe what you are meaning about the b43/ssb modules or wl option
> as I don't understand what you are meaning.  I am running Debian without
> Gnome, KDE, etc...

http://wiki.debian.org/bcm43xx

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Re: Wireless support

[Jacob Tennant]

I give up, I HAVE TO HAVE A DESKTOP!!!  Installing KDE as we speak...

On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 9:43 PM, Jacob Tennant wrote:

> Please describe what you are meaning about the b43/ssb modules or wl option
> as I don't understand what you are meaning.  I am running Debian without
> Gnome, KDE, etc...
>
> Jacob Tennant
>
>   On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 8:49 PM, Omar Campagne wrote:
>
>> > Does Debian have driver support for the Braodcom 4311 chips in laptops
>> wireless
>> > cards?
>> >
>> I own a laptop sold with a 4311 (yet lspci gives 4312).
>> Anyway, you have the b43/ssb modules option with firmware, or
>> the wl option, available with the packages broadcom-sta-common
>> and broadcom-sta-source. You have to build the packages with the second
>> option. Plus, it's "less open", as it has some binary pieces. It's the
>> same driver than the one offerred "officialy".
>>
>> I have to add that I have far better performance with the wl module.
>>
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Re: Wireless support

[Jacob Tennant]

Please describe what you are meaning about the b43/ssb modules or wl option
as I don't understand what you are meaning.  I am running Debian without
Gnome, KDE, etc...

Jacob Tennant

On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 8:49 PM, Omar Campagne  wrote:

> > Does Debian have driver support for the Braodcom 4311 chips in laptops
> wireless
> > cards?
> >
> I own a laptop sold with a 4311 (yet lspci gives 4312).
> Anyway, you have the b43/ssb modules option with firmware, or
> the wl option, available with the packages broadcom-sta-common
> and broadcom-sta-source. You have to build the packages with the second
> option. Plus, it's "less open", as it has some binary pieces. It's the
> same driver than the one offerred "officialy".
>
> I have to add that I have far better performance with the wl module.
>
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make menuconfig issue in sid

[Vadim Matveev]

I have an issue with `make menuconfig`. As you can see on screenshot -
http://s60.radikal.ru/i169/1003/28/c0fc6a1a4c5c.png keys doesn't works
correct and generate escape sequences, interface is broken -
http://i021.radikal.ru/1003/92/d37e86673e3d.png. I'm not sure, but may
be this is an ncurses issue.
Same problem with vanilla kernel, debian and zen kernels.
Any ideas?

Software versions:
up-to-date sid
libncurses5 | 5.7+20090803-2
libncurses5-dev | 5.7+20090803-2


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Re: Wireless support

[Omar Campagne]

> Does Debian have driver support for the Braodcom 4311 chips in laptops 
> wireless
> cards?
>  
I own a laptop sold with a 4311 (yet lspci gives 4312). 
Anyway, you have the b43/ssb modules option with firmware, or
the wl option, available with the packages broadcom-sta-common
and broadcom-sta-source. You have to build the packages with the second
option. Plus, it's "less open", as it has some binary pieces. It's the
same driver than the one offerred "officialy".

I have to add that I have far better performance with the wl module.

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Re: aptitude package filtering

[Yavuz Yetim]

I tested both of apt-show-versions and aptitude limit approach. There
are differences. apt-show-versions shows which packages are installed
from what archive. The list aptitude shows is, the packages which are
installed and they exists in the given archive. apt-show-versions is
more like what I wanted. 

for example if package X is installed from stable and the same version
is available in testing, apt-show-versions doesn't show it but aptitude
shows. 

Thanks,
Yavuz

On Sun, 2010-03-14 at 22:35 +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 17:23:11 -0400, Yavuz Yetim wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I would like to list all packages installed from testing. How can I do
> > that? First limiting to ~installed and then searching ~archive(testing)
> > gives me packages that are installed and available in testing and that's
> > not what I want. For example, I have evolution 2.22 from stable. So,
> > ~installed matches evolution 2.22, so package evolution is in the list
> > and ~archive(testing) matches evolution because evolution 2.28 is in
> > testing. However, I don't want to see evolution in the list because I
> > want only the packages that are installed from testing (not the ones
> > that are installed and available in testing). If it is not installed
> > from testing, I don't want to see it. How can I do that? I hope the
> > explanation was clear.
> 
> If I understand you correctly then I think the "narrowing" search
> pattern/operator is what you want:
> 
> aptitude search '~S ~i ~Atesting'
> 
> file:///usr/share/doc/aptitude/html/en/ch02s04s05.html#searchNarrow
> 
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Re: are aptitude and synaptic compatible?

[Omar Campagne]

On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 05:12:35PM +0200, Aioanei Rares wrote:
> Martin wrote:
> >I mean can I install/deinstall packages once with aptitude
> >then with synaptic without worry that something will break?
> >They both use same database of installed packages, right?

> >I guess the answer is 'yes' - I just want to be sure.
> >Martin

Nothing will break, but note that aptitude keeps a more severe tracking
of what is installed, meaning that, over time, you will get more
orphaned packages than what you'll get by using only aptitude.

OTOH, use deborphan (orphanar - curses interface or gtkorphan) to keep
an eye on those packages.

Omar Campagne Polaino

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Re: Wireless support

[Ron Johnson]

On 2010-03-14 18:04, Jacob Tennant wrote:
I have not used Debian in over 10 years so please excuse my newbie type 
qestions...
 
Does Debian have driver support for the Braodcom 4311 chips in laptops 
wireless cards?


According to Google (linux broadcom 4311), the relevant driver was
added to the kernel as of v2.6.17-rc2.

I am tryng to setup a server type system for amateur radio using Xastir 
and tired of fighting with all of the GUI stuff, just need a bare-bone 
linux system as this is all that this computer is ever going to do till 
it dies.
 


What fighting?  Network configuration?

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Re: aptitude package filtering

[Andrew Reid]

On Sunday 14 March 2010 17:54:25 Freeman wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 05:23:11PM -0400, Yavuz Yetim wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I would like to list all packages installed from testing. How can I do
> > that? First limiting to ~installed and then searching ~archive(testing)
> > gives me packages that are...
>
> I think you'd be better off with something like
>
>  $ apt-show-versions | gerp testing

  I love this list -- I've been mucking about with Debian for
years, and had never run across apt-show-versions.

  I even discovered that there's an update for my lenny-backports
version of OpenOffice.

  On my system, packages show up with the distro name, not the 
distro status (i.e. "squeeze" and "lenny", not "testing" or "stable"),
but aside from that it works as described.

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Re: aptitude package filtering

[Freeman]

On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 05:08:32PM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
> Ron Johnson writes:
> > I'm an apt-get guy, though, and it might not match the aptitude
> > database.
> 
> Both apt-get and aptitude are front-ends for apt.  There is no seperate
> aptitude database.
> -- 

So /var/lib/aptitude/pkgstates is aptitudes sole differentiating resource?

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Wireless support

[Jacob Tennant]

I have not used Debian in over 10 years so please excuse my newbie type
qestions...

Does Debian have driver support for the Braodcom 4311 chips in laptops
wireless cards?

I am tryng to setup a server type system for amateur radio using Xastir and
tired of fighting with all of the GUI stuff, just need a bare-bone linux
system as this is all that this computer is ever going to do till it dies.

Thank you,

Jacob Tennant - K8JWT

Re: aptitude package filtering

[Ron Johnson]

On 2010-03-14 17:08, John Hasler wrote:

Ron Johnson writes:

I'm an apt-get guy, though, and it might not match the aptitude
database.


Both apt-get and aptitude are front-ends for apt.  There is no seperate
aptitude database.


There was a time when you were recommended *not* to use them 
interchangeably.  Why?


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Re: aptitude package filtering

[John Hasler]

Ron Johnson writes:
> I'm an apt-get guy, though, and it might not match the aptitude
> database.

Both apt-get and aptitude are front-ends for apt.  There is no seperate
aptitude database.
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Re: Empty folder gives a `hand' cursor icon (foolish)

[Merciadri Luca]

Freeman wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 11:08:14PM +0100, Merciadri Luca wrote:
>   
>> Freeman wrote:
>> 
>>> On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 07:00:12PM +0100, Merciadri Luca wrote:
>>>   
>>>   
 Aioanei Rares wrote:
 
 
> Merciadri Luca wrote:
>   
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> After having deleted the content of a folder of mine (on an external
>> HDD), clicking on the empty folder's icon gives me an empty folder (that
>> is normal), but the cursor keeps being a `hand' (just like when one can
>> click one something). Note that I have activated the `one-click to open
>> a folder' mode.
>>
>> It is definitively not normal. Any idea?
>>
>>   
>> 
>> 
> Gnome, KDE,?
>
>
>   
>   
 Sorry, GNOME.

 
 
>>> Assuming Nautilus, is "view hidden files" checked?
>>>
>>>   
>>>   
>> Yes. You assume the right thing: I am using Nautilus. And? Does that
>> explain something I am not aware of?
>>
>> 
>
> Just a thought. You may have overlooked deleting hidden files and the folder
> may therefore not be empty.
>
>   
Not a bad idea, but I verified: the folder was really empty (I did a `ls
-al' and also, using Nautilus, I realized that it was completely empty
because of the number of elements it was containing).

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Re: Empty folder gives a `hand' cursor icon (foolish)

[Freeman]

On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 11:08:14PM +0100, Merciadri Luca wrote:
> Freeman wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 07:00:12PM +0100, Merciadri Luca wrote:
> >   
> >> Aioanei Rares wrote:
> >> 
> >>> Merciadri Luca wrote:
> >>>   
>  Hi,
> 
>  After having deleted the content of a folder of mine (on an external
>  HDD), clicking on the empty folder's icon gives me an empty folder (that
>  is normal), but the cursor keeps being a `hand' (just like when one can
>  click one something). Note that I have activated the `one-click to open
>  a folder' mode.
> 
>  It is definitively not normal. Any idea?
> 
>    
>  
> >>> Gnome, KDE,?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>   
> >> Sorry, GNOME.
> >>
> >> 
> >
> > Assuming Nautilus, is "view hidden files" checked?
> >
> >   
> Yes. You assume the right thing: I am using Nautilus. And? Does that
> explain something I am not aware of?
> 

Just a thought. You may have overlooked deleting hidden files and the folder
may therefore not be empty.

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Re: aptitude package filtering

[Johan Grönqvist]

Florian Kulzer skrev:

On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 17:23:11 -0400, Yavuz Yetim wrote:



If I understand you correctly then I think the "narrowing" search
pattern/operator is what you want:

aptitude search '~S ~i ~Atesting'



I thought so too, but when I tested, aptitude lists acpi as installed 
from stable, although it is not the version form stable. Have I missed 
something?



johan-laptop:/home/johan# aptitude search '~S ~i ~Astable' | grep acpi
i   acpi- displays information on ACPI 
devices
i A acpid   - Advanced Configuration and Power 
Interface

johan-laptop:/home/johan# apt-cache policy acpi
acpi:
  Installerad: 1.4-2
  Kandidat: 1.4-2
  Versionstabell:
 *** 1.4-2 0
850 http://ftp.se.debian.org squeeze/main Packages
650 http://ftp.se.debian.org sid/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
 1.1-2 0
750 http://ftp.se.debian.org lenny/main Packages
johan-laptop:/home/johan#



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Re: Empty folder gives a `hand' cursor icon (foolish)

[Merciadri Luca]

Freeman wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 07:00:12PM +0100, Merciadri Luca wrote:
>   
>> Aioanei Rares wrote:
>> 
>>> Merciadri Luca wrote:
>>>   
 Hi,

 After having deleted the content of a folder of mine (on an external
 HDD), clicking on the empty folder's icon gives me an empty folder (that
 is normal), but the cursor keeps being a `hand' (just like when one can
 click one something). Note that I have activated the `one-click to open
 a folder' mode.

 It is definitively not normal. Any idea?

   
 
>>> Gnome, KDE,?
>>>
>>>
>>>   
>> Sorry, GNOME.
>>
>> 
>
> Assuming Nautilus, is "view hidden files" checked?
>
>   
Yes. You assume the right thing: I am using Nautilus. And? Does that
explain something I am not aware of?

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Re: Empty folder gives a `hand' cursor icon (foolish)

[Freeman]

On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 07:00:12PM +0100, Merciadri Luca wrote:
> Aioanei Rares wrote:
> > Merciadri Luca wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> After having deleted the content of a folder of mine (on an external
> >> HDD), clicking on the empty folder's icon gives me an empty folder (that
> >> is normal), but the cursor keeps being a `hand' (just like when one can
> >> click one something). Note that I have activated the `one-click to open
> >> a folder' mode.
> >>
> >> It is definitively not normal. Any idea?
> >>
> >>   
> > Gnome, KDE,?
> >
> >
> Sorry, GNOME.
> 

Assuming Nautilus, is "view hidden files" checked?

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Re: aptitude package filtering

[Freeman]

On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 05:23:11PM -0400, Yavuz Yetim wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I would like to list all packages installed from testing. How can I do
> that? First limiting to ~installed and then searching ~archive(testing)
> gives me packages that are installed and available in testing and that's
> not what I want. For example, I have evolution 2.22 from stable. So,
> ~installed matches evolution 2.22, so package evolution is in the list
> and ~archive(testing) matches evolution because evolution 2.28 is in
> testing. However, I don't want to see evolution in the list because I
> want only the packages that are installed from testing (not the ones
> that are installed and available in testing). If it is not installed
> from testing, I don't want to see it. How can I do that? I hope the
> explanation was clear.
> 

I think you'd be better off with something like

 $ apt-show-versions | gerp testing  

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Re: wireless detection

[josé Santos]

On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 04:17:56PM +, abdelkader belahcene wrote:
> hi,
> Ubuntu (mepis and others ) detect automatically the wireless,  the 
> configuration is done via network connection, It fails with debian  I install 
> firm* wireless drivers. I would like to find a tool like networkmanager 
> provided by mepis which search for point access .
> 
> thanks for help
> 
Please check this: http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct

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Re: aptitude package filtering

[Florian Kulzer]

On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 17:23:11 -0400, Yavuz Yetim wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I would like to list all packages installed from testing. How can I do
> that? First limiting to ~installed and then searching ~archive(testing)
> gives me packages that are installed and available in testing and that's
> not what I want. For example, I have evolution 2.22 from stable. So,
> ~installed matches evolution 2.22, so package evolution is in the list
> and ~archive(testing) matches evolution because evolution 2.28 is in
> testing. However, I don't want to see evolution in the list because I
> want only the packages that are installed from testing (not the ones
> that are installed and available in testing). If it is not installed
> from testing, I don't want to see it. How can I do that? I hope the
> explanation was clear.

If I understand you correctly then I think the "narrowing" search
pattern/operator is what you want:

aptitude search '~S ~i ~Atesting'

file:///usr/share/doc/aptitude/html/en/ch02s04s05.html#searchNarrow

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Re: aptitude package filtering

[Johan Grönqvist]

Yavuz Yetim skrev:

I would like to list all packages installed from testing. How can I do
that? First limiting to ~installed and then searching ~archive(testing)
gives me packages that are installed and available in testing and that's
not what I want. 



I was going to suggest the command

aptitude search "?narrow(?archive(testing), ?installed)"

but then I realized that in some cases it does not work as I expected, 
so I will just suggest looking at narrow in the documentation [0], and 
then deciding for yourself if it does what you want.


[0]: 
http://algebraicthunk.net/~dburrows/projects/aptitude/doc/en/ch02s03s05.html



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Re: aptitude package filtering

[Ron Johnson]

On 2010-03-14 16:23, Yavuz Yetim wrote:

Hi,

I would like to list all packages installed from testing. How can I do
that? First limiting to ~installed and then searching ~archive(testing)
gives me packages that are installed and available in testing and that's
not what I want. For example, I have evolution 2.22 from stable. So,
~installed matches evolution 2.22, so package evolution is in the list
and ~archive(testing) matches evolution because evolution 2.28 is in
testing. However, I don't want to see evolution in the list because I
want only the packages that are installed from testing (not the ones
that are installed and available in testing). If it is not installed
from testing, I don't want to see it. How can I do that? I hope the
explanation was clear.



I'd do something like:
  $ apt-show-versions | grep testing | egrep "uptodate|upgradeable"

I'm an apt-get guy, though, and it might not match the aptitude 
database.


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Re: hp laserjet 1200 repeated printer-state-message="/usr/lib/cups/backend/hp failed" usb

[Ron Johnson]

On 2010-03-14 11:44, Mitchell Laks wrote:

Hi,

I have a Hp laserjet printer connected through a usb backend. I am plagued by 
repeated
episodes of failure of the printer to print. It works for a while and then it 
spontaneously stops working. I reinstall the driver via the localhost:631 interface

and it prints and a day later it stops working.

D [14/Mar/2010:11:29:05 -0400] [Job 2806] Printer stopped due to backend 
errors; please consult the error_log file for details.


Dumb question: what does the error_log file say?


D [14/Mar/2010:11:29:05 -0400] [Job 2806] End of messages
D [14/Mar/2010:11:29:05 -0400] [Job 2806] printer-state=5(stopped)
D [14/Mar/2010:11:29:05 -0400] [Job 2806] 
printer-state-message="/usr/lib/cups/backend/hp failed"
D [14/Mar/2010:11:29:05 -0400] [Job 2806] printer-state-reasons=paused
E [14/Mar/2010:11:39:52 -0400] Unable to remove temporary file 
"/var/spool/cups/tmp/.hplip" - Is a directory
E [14/Mar/2010:11:39:52 -0400] Unable to remove temporary file 
"/var/spool/cups/tmp/.fontconfig" - Is a directory
E [14/Mar/2010:11:39:54 -0400] [cups-driverd] Bad driver information file 
"/usr/share/ppd/postscript/Kyocera/ReadMe.htm"!
E [14/Mar/2010:11:39:54 -0400] [cups-driverd] Bad driver information file 
"/usr/share/ppd/postscript/Kyocera/kyocera_ppd_8.2.txt"!


strange I am using the recommended Postscript en driver and what is this about 
Kyocera?

I am tempted to switch back to the parallel port connection ,,,

Mitchell





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aptitude package filtering

[Yavuz Yetim]

Hi,

I would like to list all packages installed from testing. How can I do
that? First limiting to ~installed and then searching ~archive(testing)
gives me packages that are installed and available in testing and that's
not what I want. For example, I have evolution 2.22 from stable. So,
~installed matches evolution 2.22, so package evolution is in the list
and ~archive(testing) matches evolution because evolution 2.28 is in
testing. However, I don't want to see evolution in the list because I
want only the packages that are installed from testing (not the ones
that are installed and available in testing). If it is not installed
from testing, I don't want to see it. How can I do that? I hope the
explanation was clear.

Thanks,
Yavuz


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Re: Empty folder gives a `hand' cursor icon (foolish)

[Merciadri Luca]

Aioanei Rares wrote:
> Merciadri Luca wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> After having deleted the content of a folder of mine (on an external
>> HDD), clicking on the empty folder's icon gives me an empty folder (that
>> is normal), but the cursor keeps being a `hand' (just like when one can
>> click one something). Note that I have activated the `one-click to open
>> a folder' mode.
>>
>> It is definitively not normal. Any idea?
>>
>>   
> Gnome, KDE,?
>
>
Sorry, GNOME.

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Re: Empty folder gives a `hand' cursor icon (foolish)

[Aioanei Rares]

Merciadri Luca wrote:

Hi,

After having deleted the content of a folder of mine (on an external
HDD), clicking on the empty folder's icon gives me an empty folder (that
is normal), but the cursor keeps being a `hand' (just like when one can
click one something). Note that I have activated the `one-click to open
a folder' mode.

It is definitively not normal. Any idea?

  

Gnome, KDE,?


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Empty folder gives a `hand' cursor icon (foolish)

[Merciadri Luca]

Hi,

After having deleted the content of a folder of mine (on an external
HDD), clicking on the empty folder's icon gives me an empty folder (that
is normal), but the cursor keeps being a `hand' (just like when one can
click one something). Note that I have activated the `one-click to open
a folder' mode.

It is definitively not normal. Any idea?

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Re: question about fstab in squeeze and uuid

[Paul E Condon]

On 20100314_142055, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 11:13:14AM -0500, Tom H wrote:
> > > When I install a 2nd/3rd distrib on a HD, I have made it a practice
> > > to set up fstab so the existing distrib are mounted automatically.
> > > Repeated use leads to all functioning distrib to be crosslinked.
> > > But when a distrib must be reinstalled because something drasticly
> > > wrong happened, or whatever, access to that replacement distrib in
> > > all the older distrib is broken because the UUID of the partition
> > > is changed.
> > 
> > You could make a note of the UUID before the re-install then re-apply
> > it to the partition with
> > tune2fs -U  /dev/sdaX
> 
> However you *must* take a note. This is not something you can remember.
> As opposed to a partitioning scheme, that you can remember.
> 
> UUIDs are also a fine method for making your life interesting when you
> want to recover a system backed up on a different hardware.
> 
> For instance, I had a digikam images database on a system whose
> motherboard had some issues. No problems. I copied the whole thing to a
> new home directory (of the same user, same UID, same path) on a
> different system. However digikam fails to use the database. It insists
> I have the incorrect UUID. Natually it does not allow me to fix things.
> 
> This is intended to protect against using the wrong DoK (but will
> "protect" you from copying the database to a different DoK). And
> couldn't have been disabled from the user interface at the time.
> 
> It took me a few hours of digging in the code and file format to figure
> out how to fake a non-UUID database.
> 
> 
> So make sure you don't have the UUID listed in a host of places on the
> disk when recovering the system to a different media. {Or|And} just try
> to avoid it, if you can.

This is a more scary example of the dangers of the current UUID
situation than mine. Once the UUID is exists, there is no way to keep
developers from using it stupidly. I'm not surprised its digikam that
has this problem.  I once swore by it as a way to have access to my
photos under my control.  But now ... this just one more step away
from my vision of reality.

But you could not have used tune2fs on the new system to be equal to
the UUID on the old (failing) system? (rather than changing the value
of UUID recorded in the database) No fix to the database, just user
lie to the software. Real people always have the option of lying. One
might even say that communicating false information to a computer is
not lying, but merely instantiating a virtual reality.

Paranoid thought: Maybe the computers of the world communicate with
each other. When they are supposed to be idle, they are actually 
exchanging UUID values of their internal components to be sure that
those values are, in fact, universally unique.

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Re: wireless detection

[Constantine]

On Sunday 14 March 2010 19:17:56 abdelkader belahcene wrote:
> hi,
> Ubuntu (mepis and others ) detect automatically the wireless,  the
> configuration is done via network connection, It fails with debian  I
> install firm* wireless drivers. I would like to find a tool like
> networkmanager provided by mepis which search for point access .
> 
> thanks for help
> 

Hi!
There is network manager in debian too. Beside firmware you need to install  
wpasupplicant and wireless-tools. AFAIK both of them will go as dependences to 
network-manager (network-manager-kde or network-manager-gnome) or wicd.
  


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hp laserjet 1200 repeated printer-state-message="/usr/lib/cups/backend/hp failed" usb

[Mitchell Laks]

Hi,

I have a Hp laserjet printer connected through a usb backend. I am plagued by 
repeated
episodes of failure of the printer to print. It works for a while and then it 
spontaneously stops working. I reinstall the driver via the localhost:631 
interface
and it prints and a day later it stops working.

D [14/Mar/2010:11:29:05 -0400] [Job 2806] Printer stopped due to backend 
errors; please consult the error_log file for details.
D [14/Mar/2010:11:29:05 -0400] [Job 2806] End of messages
D [14/Mar/2010:11:29:05 -0400] [Job 2806] printer-state=5(stopped)
D [14/Mar/2010:11:29:05 -0400] [Job 2806] 
printer-state-message="/usr/lib/cups/backend/hp failed"
D [14/Mar/2010:11:29:05 -0400] [Job 2806] printer-state-reasons=paused
E [14/Mar/2010:11:39:52 -0400] Unable to remove temporary file 
"/var/spool/cups/tmp/.hplip" - Is a directory
E [14/Mar/2010:11:39:52 -0400] Unable to remove temporary file 
"/var/spool/cups/tmp/.fontconfig" - Is a directory
E [14/Mar/2010:11:39:54 -0400] [cups-driverd] Bad driver information file 
"/usr/share/ppd/postscript/Kyocera/ReadMe.htm"!
E [14/Mar/2010:11:39:54 -0400] [cups-driverd] Bad driver information file 
"/usr/share/ppd/postscript/Kyocera/kyocera_ppd_8.2.txt"!


strange I am using the recommended Postscript en driver and what is this about 
Kyocera?

I am tempted to switch back to the parallel port connection ,,,

Mitchell


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Re: wireless detection

[Terence]

On 14 March 2010 16:17, abdelkader belahcene  wrote:
> hi,
> Ubuntu (mepis and others ) detect automatically the wireless,  the
> configuration is done via network connection, It fails with debian  I
> install firm* wireless drivers. I would like to find a tool like
> networkmanager provided by mepis which search for point access .
>
> thanks for help
>
>

It should work.- I use it in Lenny and testing, together with
nm-applet  with no trouble at all.

http://projects.gnome.org/NetworkManager/

Have you installed it from the Debian repository?

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wireless detection

[abdelkader belahcene]

hi,
Ubuntu (mepis and others ) detect automatically the wireless,  the
configuration is done via network connection, It fails with debian  I
install firm* wireless drivers. I would like to find a tool like
networkmanager provided by mepis which search for point access .

thanks for help

Re: need help with xorg.conf

[Stephen Powell]

On Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:21:29 -0500 (EST), Paul E Condon wrote:
> On 20100313_223702, Stephen Powell wrote:
>> I've done some digging.  Apparently, there is an Option statement
>> That is valid for at least some drivers:
>> 
>>Option "NoDDC"
>> 
>> that can be put into the "Device" section, but it is not documented
>> in the man page for xorg.conf.  I'll have to play around to see if
>> I can get it to work.  But that will have to wait for tomorrow.
>> It's time for me to go to bed.
> 
> The option UseBIOS documented in man savage, not in man xorg.conf
> There is a list of driver man pages in man xorg.conf

Yes, I know.  But I'm not talking about the UseBIOS option right now.
I'm talking about the NoDDC option.  I did find it documented
on the Internet.  For example,
see this link -> http://www.x.org/archive/X11R6.8.0/doc/rendition5.html.
The option was still under development then, and was documented as
a "previews of coming attractions" option.  The NoDDC option is referred
to in man savage, but the NoDDC option is not a savage-specific option.
It is a generic option for the "Device" section and should be documented
in man xorg.conf.  I have also seen bug reports complaining about the
lack of documentation for the NoDDC option.  For example,
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=364610.

The above bug report implies that NoDDC is specific to the s3virge driver,
but it is actually a generic option that apparently works with all
drivers.  I just tried it on my machine with the nv driver for an
Nvidia video card.  It works great!  I can now override the DDC2/EDID-probed
values if I want or need to!  But why is the option not documented?
Is that X.Org's version of a disclaimer?  The man pages for radeon and
savage allude to it, but don't document it.  The man page for rendition
actually documents it, but as a "soon-to-be-implemented feature" rather than
as a production option.  Oh well, at least it works.

Sorry to rain on your parade, Ron, -- er, I mean shine sun on your
funeral procession -- but you lose this time.

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Re: apt-get for deb and rpm

[Marcio H. Parreiras]

Hi,

AFAIK, it's not possible to mix these different packaging systems in a
single list of sources. You can use the "alien" package to convert between
DEB and RPM formats, among others. PCLinuxOS have this utility, but you will
have to deal hard with dependences and, overall, it's not recommended
install packages of so different distros, mostly cases you may break your
whole system. So, IMHO, if you need a more complete distro, move to Debian,
Mint, Ubuntu or any other Debian Pure Blend.

Regards,


2010/3/14 abdelkader belahcene 

> hi,
> Is it possible to mix   rpm and deb  with apt-get  procedure
>
>
>
> I installed PLlinuxOS  which use apt-get with rpm
>
> I wanted to complete the pclinus with packages I've downloaded before from
> debian
>
> here is a line in sources.list
>
> rpm
> http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/texstar/pclinuxos/apt/pclinuxos/2010
>  main update
>
> I added  the classic line with debian package like
>
> deb file:/home/ExtraPackages/
>
> I got an error "deb"  format is not recognized
> In debian  the rpm is not recognized, here "deb" is not
>
> how to combine them
> thanks a lot
>
> bela
>
>
>


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Re: [Semi-OT] Incredibly useful Firefox addon: Hyperwords

[S.D.A.]

On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 07:27:17AM -0600, Ron Johnson uttered:
> On 2010-03-13 04:20, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> >On Sat March 13 2010, Ron Johnson wrote:
> >>Apparently, it's based upon the ideas of Douglas Engelbart back in
> >>the 1960s.
> >>
> >>http://www.hyperwords.net/
> >
> >it doesn't like iceweasel..
> >
> 
> Sure it does.  Me using it is QED.

That's a nice extension; It has Chromium support to. Chromium/Chrome
extension via official Google site; http://bit.ly/ajhjmv


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apt-get for deb and rpm

[abdelkader belahcene]

hi,
Is it possible to mix   rpm and deb  with apt-get  procedure



I installed PLlinuxOS  which use apt-get with rpm

I wanted to complete the pclinus with packages I've downloaded before from
debian

here is a line in sources.list

rpm 
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/texstar/pclinuxos/apt/pclinuxos/2010
main update

I added  the classic line with debian package like

deb file:/home/ExtraPackages/

I got an error "deb"  format is not recognized
In debian  the rpm is not recognized, here "deb" is not

how to combine them
thanks a lot

bela

Re: mpg123 won't play

[Curt Howland]

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As of March 8th,

Outstanding bugs -- Grave functionality bugs; Unclassified (1 bug)
  1) #572920  libltdl3: Security update breaks mpg123

...the comment is, "It works in testing and unstable, I'll see about 
fixing it in stable."

We await with great anticipation.

I wonder if the same fault is what caused Audacious to stop working 
for me at the same time? Hm.

Curt-

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Re: [Semi-OT] Incredibly useful Firefox addon: Hyperwords

[owens]

>
>
>
> Original Message 
>From: ron.l.john...@cox.net
>To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>Subject: Re: [Semi-OT] Incredibly useful Firefox addon: Hyperwords
>Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:14:29 -0600
>
>>On 2010-03-13 19:21, Celejar wrote:
>>> On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:31:53 -0600
>>> Ron Johnson  wrote:
>>> 
>>> ...
>>> 
 Apparently, it's based upon the ideas of Douglas Engelbart back
>in 
 the 1960s.
>>> 
>>> Apparently, it can be argued * that much of the standard modern
>>> computer UI paradigm is "based on the ideas of Douglas Engelbart".
>>> 
>>> * Weasel wording, since ISTR that there's some controversy about
>how
>>> much credit he actually deserves)
>>> 
>>
>>This article, written by a former employee of both PARC in it's 
>>glory days and Apple when creating the Mac, is very enlightening.
>>
>>http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=On_Xero
>x,_Apple_and_Progress.txt
>>
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Re: The playback of this movie requires a A-Law decoder plugin which is not installed.

[Camaleón]

On Sun, 14 Mar 2010 13:09:57 +0100, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Ron Johnson wrote:

>> Do you have gstreamer0.10-plugins-good installed?
> 
> Yes, apparently it is there:
> 
> $ apt-cache policy  gstreamer0.10-plugins-good
> gstreamer0.10-plugins-good:
>   Installed: 0.10.8-4.1~lenny2
>   Candidate: 0.10.8-4.1~lenny2
>   Version table:
>  0.10.21-1 0
> 100 http://ftp.fr.debian.org unstable/main Packages
>  0.10.18-1 0
> 200 http://ftp.fr.debian.org testing/main Packages
>  *** 0.10.8-4.1~lenny2 0
> 500 http://ftp.fr.debian.org lenny/main Packages 500
> http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/main Packages 100
> /var/lib/dpkg/status
> 
> $ gst-typefind-0.10 /tmp/bla.wav
> /tmp/bla.wav - audio/x-wav

I've always found annoying to deal with media codecs, regardless the OS 
being used, so when I encounter a file that "it resists" to play, go to 
MPlayer/SMPlayer or VideoLAN which embed most of the codecs within the 
program itself.

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Re: question about fstab in squeeze and uuid

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 11:13:14AM -0500, Tom H wrote:
> > When I install a 2nd/3rd distrib on a HD, I have made it a practice
> > to set up fstab so the existing distrib are mounted automatically.
> > Repeated use leads to all functioning distrib to be crosslinked.
> > But when a distrib must be reinstalled because something drasticly
> > wrong happened, or whatever, access to that replacement distrib in
> > all the older distrib is broken because the UUID of the partition
> > is changed.
> 
> You could make a note of the UUID before the re-install then re-apply
> it to the partition with
> tune2fs -U  /dev/sdaX

However you *must* take a note. This is not something you can remember.
As opposed to a partitioning scheme, that you can remember.

UUIDs are also a fine method for making your life interesting when you
want to recover a system backed up on a different hardware.

For instance, I had a digikam images database on a system whose
motherboard had some issues. No problems. I copied the whole thing to a
new home directory (of the same user, same UID, same path) on a
different system. However digikam fails to use the database. It insists
I have the incorrect UUID. Natually it does not allow me to fix things.

This is intended to protect against using the wrong DoK (but will
"protect" you from copying the database to a different DoK). And
couldn't have been disabled from the user interface at the time.

It took me a few hours of digging in the code and file format to figure
out how to fake a non-UUID database.


So make sure you don't have the UUID listed in a host of places on the
disk when recovering the system to a different media. {Or|And} just try
to avoid it, if you can.

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Re: Problem with printer HP Deskjet 1120

[Steve Kleene]

> On my newer PC, I also have a Windows partition (XP), but, so far, I 
> have been unable to install an HP driver that would work. The one that I 
> got when I bought the printer (back a number of years ago), which was 
> meant for Win 95 and Win 3.1, refuses to install on 'XP'.

I had a similar problem in 2007 with an HP DeskJet 1220Cse that came with a
Windows 98 driver.  I did get it working on my VMware virtual XP machine with
the help of these two sites:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=222787&admit=-682735245+1182710188
http://www.pcbanter.net/archive/index.php/t-220688.html

You might see if anything there helps.  I can send you my own notes if that
doesn't work.

It's still the case that XP asks if I want to install a newer driver whenever
I start the inkjet.  I just say No.


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Re: The playback of this movie requires a A-Law decoder plugin which is not installed.

[Mathieu Malaterre]

On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Ron Johnson  wrote:
> On 2010-03-14 06:32, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
>>
>> Hi there,
>>
>>  I am trying to read a wav file using totem. However it fails with
>> the following:
>>
>> $ totem bla.wav
>> ** Message: don't know how to handle audio/x-alaw, rate=(int)8000,
>> channels=(int)1
>
> You must be European.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9C-law_algorithm
>    The ต-law algorithm (often u-law, ulaw, mu-law, ...)
>    is a companding algorithm, primarily used in the digital
>    telecommunication systems of North America and Japan.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-law_algorithm
>    An A-law algorithm is a standard companding algorithm,
>    used in European digital communications systems
>
> $ file foo.wav
> foo.wav: RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, ITU G.711 mu-law, mono 8000
> Hz
>
> Try this:
> $ apt-file search alaw | grep gstream
>
> Do you have gstreamer0.10-plugins-good installed?

Yes, apparently it is there:

$ apt-cache policy  gstreamer0.10-plugins-good
gstreamer0.10-plugins-good:
  Installed: 0.10.8-4.1~lenny2
  Candidate: 0.10.8-4.1~lenny2
  Version table:
 0.10.21-1 0
100 http://ftp.fr.debian.org unstable/main Packages
 0.10.18-1 0
200 http://ftp.fr.debian.org testing/main Packages
 *** 0.10.8-4.1~lenny2 0
500 http://ftp.fr.debian.org lenny/main Packages
500 http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

$ gst-typefind-0.10 /tmp/bla.wav
/tmp/bla.wav - audio/x-wav

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Re: Problem with printer HP Deskjet 1120

[Camaleón]

On Sun, 14 Mar 2010 06:53:07 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:

> On 2010-03-14 06:43, Camaleón wrote:

>> HPLIP driver seems *not* to be able to achieve that:
>> 
>> http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/models/deskjet/deskjet_1120.html
> 
> At all, or just, as footnote 7 says, "via the HP Device Manager aka
> Toolbox"?

As per the above page, the following features seems to be unavailable at 
all, without footnotes:

***
Print head alignmentNo  
Color calibration   No  
Print head cleaning No  
Linefeed calibrationNo  
Print quality diagnostics   No
***
 
> I'm wondering if the CLI util can do it, but the GUI app hesn't
> implemented it.

Dunno :-?

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Re: Problem with printer HP Deskjet 1120

[Ron Johnson]

On 2010-03-14 06:43, Camaleón wrote:

On Sun, 14 Mar 2010 12:17:31 +0100, Bernard wrote:


My printer has been running under Debian Linux for years, without
problem, except this : I have not found how to align the heads when
replacing ink cartridges. You are supposed to do this each time you
install a new cartridge, or else high quality color printing is not
obtained.


HPLIP driver seems *not* to be able to achieve that:

http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/models/deskjet/deskjet_1120.html


At all, or just, as footnote 7 says, "via the HP Device Manager aka 
Toolbox"?


I'm wondering if the CLI util can do it, but the GUI app hesn't 
implemented it.


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Re: The playback of this movie requires a A-Law decoder plugin which is not installed.

[Ron Johnson]

On 2010-03-14 06:32, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:

Hi there,

  I am trying to read a wav file using totem. However it fails with
the following:

$ totem bla.wav
** Message: don't know how to handle audio/x-alaw, rate=(int)8000,
channels=(int)1


You must be European.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9C-law_algorithm
The µ-law algorithm (often u-law, ulaw, mu-law, ...)
is a companding algorithm, primarily used in the digital
telecommunication systems of North America and Japan.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-law_algorithm
An A-law algorithm is a standard companding algorithm,
used in European digital communications systems

$ file foo.wav
foo.wav: RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, ITU G.711 mu-law, 
mono 8000 Hz


Try this:
$ apt-file search alaw | grep gstream

Do you have gstreamer0.10-plugins-good installed?

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Re: Resume broke after upgrading Squeeze in my T61

[Andrew Malcolmson]

Did you ever figure this out?  My T61 has between 2 and 4 weeks ago
stopped restoring from hibernation but instead does a normal reboot.


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Re: Problem with printer HP Deskjet 1120

[Andrew Malcolmson]

On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 7:17 AM, Bernard  wrote:
> Hi to Everyone,
>
> My printer has been running under Debian Linux for years, without problem,
> except this : I have not found how to align the heads when replacing ink
> cartridges. You are supposed to do this each time you install a new
> cartridge, or else high quality color printing is not obtained.

Unfortunately, this printer must be aligned under Windows (or maybe on a Mac).

Newer printers have an HP maintenance utility available as part of the
hplip package but hplip doesn't provide this for your model:

http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/models/deskjet/deskjet_1120.html

BTW: If it were an All-in-One type model you could push a button on
the printer to do it so next time get one of these as they don't cost
much more.


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Re: Problem with printer HP Deskjet 1120

[Camaleón]

On Sun, 14 Mar 2010 12:17:31 +0100, Bernard wrote:

> My printer has been running under Debian Linux for years, without
> problem, except this : I have not found how to align the heads when
> replacing ink cartridges. You are supposed to do this each time you
> install a new cartridge, or else high quality color printing is not
> obtained.

HPLIP driver seems *not* to be able to achieve that:

http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/models/deskjet/deskjet_1120.html

Time to think in buying another printer or setting it up in another OS to 
perform the required maintenance tasks, I guess :-(

> On my newer PC, I also have a Windows partition (XP), but, so far, I
> have been unable to install an HP driver that would work. The one that I
> got when I bought the printer (back a number of years ago), which was
> meant for Win 95 and Win 3.1, refuses to install on 'XP'.

Try to install the w2000 driver or even vista:



Quite strange there is not 32 bits driver for XP >:-? Have you contacted 
HP?

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Re: Problem with printer HP Deskjet 1120

[Ron Johnson]

On 2010-03-14 06:17, Bernard wrote:

Hi to Everyone,

My printer has been running under Debian Linux for years, without 
problem, except this : I have not found how to align the heads when 
replacing ink cartridges. You are supposed to do this each time you 
install a new cartridge, or else high quality color printing is not 
obtained.


So, up to now, at each new cartridge installed, I had to disconnect my 
printer and re-connect it to a very old PC running under Windows 95 so 
as to perform the head alignment.




According to this[0] page, you should use the hplip driver.  Are 
you?  If so, are you saying that the "align the heads" functionality 
isn't part of the utility?  (I find that difficult to believe.)


$ apt-cache show hplip
[snip]
  * Command line utilities to perform printer maintenance, such as
ink-level monitoring or pen cleaning and calibration



[0] http://www.openprinting.org/printer/HP/HP-DeskJet_1120C

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The playback of this movie requires a A-Law decoder plugin which is not installed.

[Mathieu Malaterre]

Hi there,

  I am trying to read a wav file using totem. However it fails with
the following:

$ totem bla.wav
** Message: don't know how to handle audio/x-alaw, rate=(int)8000,
channels=(int)1
** Message: Error: You do not have a decoder installed to handle this
file. You might need to install the necessary plugins.
gstplaybasebin.c(2327): prepare_output (): /GstPlayBin:play

** Message: Missing plugin: gstreamer|0.10|totem|A-Law
decoder|decoder-audio/x-alaw (A-Law decoder)
** Message: Automatic missing codec installation not supported (helper
script missing)

I have not been able to find what to install to get this "A-Law" codec.

Any hints ?

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Problem with printer HP Deskjet 1120

[Bernard]

Hi to Everyone,

My printer has been running under Debian Linux for years, without 
problem, except this : I have not found how to align the heads when 
replacing ink cartridges. You are supposed to do this each time you 
install a new cartridge, or else high quality color printing is not 
obtained.


So, up to now, at each new cartridge installed, I had to disconnect my 
printer and re-connect it to a very old PC running under Windows 95 so 
as to perform the head alignment.


On my newer PC, I also have a Windows partition (XP), but, so far, I 
have been unable to install an HP driver that would work. The one that I 
got when I bought the printer (back a number of years ago), which was 
meant for Win 95 and Win 3.1, refuses to install on 'XP'.


Thanks in advance for your advices


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