El mié, 26-09-2007 a las 01:17 -0500, Mike McCarty escribió: > Gabriel Parrondo wrote: > > El mar, 25-09-2007 a las 21:33 -0500, Mike McCarty escribió: > > [snip of something I can't help with] > >> She can't associate multiple queues with a single printer, > >> but there is already another thread about that. There is > >> currently no work around, but there is hope that using the > >> CUPS I/F directly may work. > > > > Let us know when you try this out. I have several instances of each > > printer created in cups each one with different configuration > > (grayscale, color, color high quality) and it works great. Using gnome. > > Really? I worked on that repeatedly with no success. Works > great on my machine (different distro, however). Same printer? > I wonder if we need to do a > > # apt-get update some-package The update command doesn't take any arguments. > > or sth like that. > [...] > > > > Does she have the hplip package installed? > > I'm not sure that would help anyway given the way it's set up. > There was (is?) no proper printer definition file for > that printer. I kludged up another printer which is somewhat > close just to make it work with HPJIS, and renamed the file. > It may have HPLIP, but I doubt it. I'm not sure if you ever told us what model the printer is... > > > It includes an app called hp-toolbox which let's you do all the tasks > > you would do with the hp-director in WS (i.e. the cartridge > > cleaning/realignment, see how loaded the cartridges are, etc) > > This printer is pretty smart. It may not need so much. > I dunno. If I replace a cartridge, it _automatically_ > runs some sort of alignment on itself. > > But presently, we can't change the dpi etc. That's more > the kind of thing needed. I need a _proper_ printer def > file. Is there an apt-get which can be done to check for > additional printer defs? Making the scanner part and the > FAX work is another issue. She really wants the scanner > to work as well. I have no experience with SANE or any > scanner drivers on Linux. Maybe if we knew the printer model... But for hp printers there is: hplip-ppds, hpijs-ppds, foomatic-db-hpijs, hpoj, linuxprinting.org-ppds. You could also try with: apt-cache search ppd > > >> Another issue which has never been posted: She installed more > >> memory. She had 512 MB RAM, and now has 1.5 Gig. Unfortunately, > >> Debian seems only to recognize just under 1.0 Gig. I haven't > >> looked on the web for a fix for that, so I haven't posted > >> here. Part of the reason I haven't gone searching for a > >> solution, is that her reaction to that was to purchase a copy > >> of Windows XP. > > > > apt-get install linux-image-686-bigmem > > Aha! Thanks! > > >> She's sorta impulsive, sometimes. > >> > >> Partly, she also wants access to a disc which was formatted > >> by Windows NT, and which she considers she has no access to > >> at present. (Not quite true, but I try not to argue with her > >> very much. It is true that she has some apps on there which > >> won't run under Debian.) > > > > ntfs-3g if it is ntfs. > > ? > > # apt-get ntfs-3g > > ? apt-cache search ntfs-3g apt-get install whatever man apt-get Come on, work with me here! ;) > > It is indeed NTFS. > Does she have windows installed? I usually see people using ntfs partitions without having windows installed, I fail to understand why... -- Gabriel Parrondo GNU/Linux User #404138 GnuPG Public Key ID: BED7BF43 JID: gabrielp@xmpp.us "The only difference between theory and practice is that, in theory, there's no difference between theory and practice."
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