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Well, last night I was trying to speedup some things in 9.0 and now it won't boot, so I'll take it as a sign and install 9.1 when it comes, probably today. for now I'm just using knoppix. by the way, if you don't have a copy of knoppix, you need one (or one of the other similar distros) runs likve from a CD and doesn't take much longer to boot than windows. it's great for showing linux to people AND it is great to have a back-up os just sitting there when you do something stupid.

I realy wanted to try it, but I wasn't able to download. I got a 404 going http and refused conection ftp

Wel, logicaly, I think it's bad idea for me to upgrade to 9.1, however, as anon so insightfully pointed out, I'm probably going to do it any way. As for the update, broadband is not an option for me. not that i don't have the bread as it's only$10 or $15 a month more than dial-up, but it's just not available here. What should I do to get the updates? should I just go ahead an start withouth them and get them as soo as i'm up and running? whould i try and download certain ones and install maualy from a CD?? what do you think?

Yeah, that's knd of what I was thinking.

I'm just looking for some opinions here. And this is why I ask. I am running 9.0 right now from the power-pac. Because I didn't think I could get my printer configured under 9.0, I ordered a set of .1 CD's from cheap bytes whitch should coume tommorrow. my deal is this. Everything works right now. (except my webcam, but it doesn't even work right uner windows) And I'm realy tempted to go with "if it aint broke, don't gfix it. But, boot up and shut down take about 5 times longer htan they should and the CD's are comming anyway, so it sseems like a waste to not go head and upgrade. "m not interested in dual booting 9.0 and 9.1 together, not only would it be pointlews but I've only hot a 14gig HDD. So, with all that in mind, and the fact that i use dial-up internet whitch I understand is handled differently in 9.1, do you think I should upgrade, clean install, or just stick with 9.0?? title edited by Ixthusdan

As far as functional, I think checkinstall should be standard on every distro. As for entertaining/attractive, not so sure. I'd like to see some more screan savers.

Okay, here it is. if anybody else gets this printer, the problem is that it does not work with any of the mandrake hpijs drivers. NOt even the most recent updates. you need to manualy install hpijs1.4.1 NOT 1.4, but 1.4.1 whitch was just released yesterday, then it SUPER easy to setup with the CUPS www admin tool.

out of curiosity, what would you need to boost your sys proformance enough to use a more current distro? I just rebuilt my comp and I have a number of part I would part with for litle or nothing.

okay, the printer needs to be set-up WITHOUT goin through mcc or printerdrake. THe command I was given to setup the printer now that the driver is installed is this: foomatic-configure -n HPPSC1210 -s cups -c ptal://mlc:usb:psc_1200_series -p HP-PSC_1210 -d hpijs -o PageSize=A4 whitch returns this: Cannot read file /usr/share/foomatic/db/source/printer/HP-PSC_1210.xml!Could not run "foomatic-combo-xml"/"foomatic-perl-data"! at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/Foomatic/DB.pm line 545. I checked, and the file is not there. I am thinking that perhaps this is because I am using 9.0 and not 9.1 Could somebody please post a copy of /usr/share/foomatic/db/source/printer/HP-PSC_1210.xml from 9.1?? I'd realy appreciate it, or, should I try to update foomatic?

'# rpm -qa | grep libus'b returns the following libusb0.1_4-0.1.6a-2mdk libusb0.1_4-devel-0.1.6a-2mdk I tried again, same problem. THis seems like it shouldn't be this hard. My understanding is that it works out of the box with RedHat 9.0 or newer. I'd have to switch distros over flipping printer. I rechecked the original post at mandrakeclub where the other info I posted first apearantly came from, and somebody else got it working with nothing else. Also, I just realized, that if I delete the entire directory and CSV from scrath, the distclean doesn't work at first. But, if I try to configure and make once without it, then suddenly it works. what am I missing?

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That's as far as I'm getting, I have no idea why the make is failing. I'd realy appreciate any help you can offer.

Okay, still having trouble, but it's getting better, sort of. I have got libusbdevel installed and checkinstall is taken care of as well. Here is EXACTLY what I'm doing. cd /home/stephen/hpoj [enter] cvs update 'enter' make distclean 'enter' ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc make 'enter'

okay, looks like distclean works now, I'll elt you know how it all goes.

Wow, I was pleasantly surprized to find a number of mirors here in Oregon, too bad contrib doesn't get any closer than new mexico, oh well.

Thanks, and thank you for not treating me like an idiot, even though I obviously appear to be one......

nope. Don't know how to get one either. Did I mention I've only ben using linux for about 2 months?

Oh, and once you get it where recognized, you have two oprions for how to get a link on your desktop. easyway: browse to /mnt/ and drag the mount point folder for your hard drive (probably /mnt/hdb1) to you desktop and inthe menu that pops up, select "link here" Right way. right click on the desktop, select "new" then harddisk. in the last tab, select the appropriate device and set your permissions. Depending on how youhave your permissions set, you may need to be root to set the permissions the way you want them. If you want, though it's a bad idea to log in as root ever, you 'can' log into X as root at boot up and browse to /home/'you'/Desktop and create it the same way as root, then for sure you can set the permissions however you want them. of course, logging in as root can be dangerous if your not carefull, and many people will tell you to NEVER do it. I'll tell you not to do it unless you are prepared for the consequences of doing the wrong thing and fubar-ing your system.

Easy way: 1. Open up the Mandrake control center 2. Click mount points 3. click "hard drives" 4. click the tab for you second drive, (porbably hdb) and use the tools there to select the mount point. 5. click done, and be sure you don't tell it to format anything, unless you want to. Right way: (easier if you know what he heck you're doing) 1. from terminal, cd to /etc/ 2. vi fstab 3. make all the apprepriate changes to your fstab acourding to what block device your harddrive is and what options you want. 4. press 'esc' key 5 enter :wq and press enter

Okay, I realized I didn't install the checkinstall package so I tried "urpmi checkinstall" and got this: urpmi checkinstall To satisfy dependencies, the following packages are going to be installed (0 MB): checkinstall-1.5.3-1mdk.noarch libcheckinstall1-1.5.3-1mdk.noarch Is this OK? (Y/n) y package checkinstall-1.5.3-1mdk.noarch is not found. package libcheckinstall1-1.5.3-1mdk.noarch is not found. unable to get source packages, aborting So, what do I need to do for checkinstall? :banghead:

Okay, I found these rambling out of order instructions. Most of whitch do not work. HT biggest problem is that it's from a funk printer forum, that is realy set up badly so it's allout of order and it's hard for me (not understanding most of it) to figure out what is what and what needs to be done in what order, if somebody could translate all the garbage into a simple set of commands, I'd realy appreciate it. first I downloaded the CVS for hpoj, then did a urpmi install of the libUSB deleoper package, and proceeded with this bit: first, "distclean" doesn't apear to be a real command, so I tried skipping that step and then tried using "make clean" "../configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc" didn't work either, so I removed one of the " . " at the begining and it worked without errors. Then make failed witht he following error. So I tried re-running the configure command that I used first, and that ended up with the same results, so then I tried just doing ./configure with no extensions, guess what, same error I didn't get any farther. Any more help appreciated.

I will try it again without replacing libUSB. IT amazes me more people don't use this printer. It's a combination printer scanner copier. IT's smal, it's only $99, and the image quality from scans AND prints is just fantastic.

Don't know about the first two, but the printer you listed is the one I had untill a few days ago. I never found a way to make it not suck. You might check out linuxprinting.org and see if there's any tips there, but it was slow as all get out for me.

I went to www.linuxprinting.org and found this: http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer....num=HP-PSC_1200 based on wha I saw there, I downloaded the source for libUSB, untar'd it and did a ./configure, make, makeinstall Then I followed the link for the newest hpoj and fololowed the directions there for updating by CVS, then made and installed the same way. Then I followed the link to the hpijs homepage and followed the directions ther for installing the latest version of that. When I did a regular configure, I got an error when it tried to reinstall foomatic. What i configured with the nofoomatic option, it installed fine, but I still couldn't get the printer to work, AND, when I rebooted, X would not fully load. I even did a "update install" of mandrake to try and get everything back, but it did n't work, so i'm stuck booting off my knoppix CD untill I get my data backed up so I can reformat and reinstall. ANy sugestion as to what went wrong or how I can fix it would be REALy appreciated. I would realy like to be able to use this printer. Oh, and I know that it is capable of printing, because the photocopy function works just fine.

I think I have it. It's a fairly new printer, and it apears that it only works with an updated libUSB and the latest CVS version of the HPOJ driver.