rsutherland

I played with this some more this weekend and got some other CUPS backend virtual printers working, including jpg, png, gif. The image size is part of the CUPS URI, i.e. the jpg backend has a Device URI like jpg:/image_output_dir@1600x1200. As with the pdf virtual printer CUPS needs to get a clean postscript input, so use the Apple Color LW 12/660 PS driver if you can find it. I used ImageMagick's convert function to do this, which is very forgiving and in Mandrake. Anyway the backend drivers are at http://epccs.com/indexes/Documents/VirtualPrinting/ which is only 256k DSL so it's a bit slow, but a nice play area.

I have the setup on some file servers for windows computers, which print to it through the samba service. Windows think its a "Apple Color LW 12/660 PS" postscript (PS) printer so CUPS will only see PS input, I have never tried others, like *.jpg... From Linux/GNU/KDE you can print to PDF without this, at least as long as I have been using it... I can print Word, AutoCAD, Eagle (makes Circuit Boards), IE, and some other random stuff I have tried. CUPS gets a PS file from the Apple print driver and runs it through the distiller, out pops a PDF. I only use the Apple driver because I have seen others say it makes clean PS files unlike the windows divers or even HP's And some Samba /etc/samba/smb.conf notes that may help... [PDFprinter] comment = PDFprinter path = /var/spool/samba read only = No create mask = 0700 guest ok = Yes printable = Yes print command = lpr-cups -P %p -o raw %s -r # using client side printer drivers. printer name = PDFprinter use client driver = Yes oplocks = No [pdf_out] comment = PDF print output path = /tmp/pdf_out read only = No guest only = Yes guest ok = Yes Note the "use client driver = Yes" is not default and makes a differance on WinNT/Win2k/WinXP for admin users. if (you= :-?) see(samba->doc's);

this was taken from some place on line however I did not get the names. Anyway It worked on MDK 9.2 and 9.1 so... Now move to the windows box and connect the printer using "Apple Color LW 12/660 PS" printer driver. Print and then go get the pdf file from the samba the export. UPDATE: I was using this to print PDF's from Windows, but it has limitations that I could not work around so I found PDFcreator on TheOpenCD which is working lots better for me. http://www.theopencd.org/index.php?option=...pdfcreator.html I can normally print PDF's on Linux, so its only a issue for programs like AutoCAD that I still need Windows for.

I have been doing this for some time and have always had a slight piss fit with devfs, which seems to be getting better now days (9.1) so I would like to keep it enabled. Does anyone know a way to have devfs/devfsd not setup a mount in fstab for devices it finds? I.e. /dev/hdb1 and /dev/hdd1 are used by the mirror system and get mounted as /md0, but devfs keeps adding /dev/hdb1 /mnt/hd auto user,iochar… /dev/hdd1 /mnt/hd2 auto user,iochar… Whenever rebooted or devfsd restarted.

I use userdrake with 9, which has the mentioned problem also. Some test show that if I close Userdrake with its File->Exit option it will remove ptmp & gtmp files, otherwise I have to remove them as root. BTW LinuxConf is another GUI user setup tool that works, and allows me to set (G|U)ID which I like to for my network users (NIS server)...

This is a little out of whack in some installs of LM9, don't know why but it is repeatable on same hardware. The service does not get turned on, as it should. i.e. [root@<server> /]# chkconfig --list mysql mysql 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:off 4:on 5:off 6:off if you see this then the mandrake tools are also not able to fix the problme so use chkconfig --level 3 mysql on chkconfig --level 5 mysql on This may be an example of when GUI tools suck because errors are so difficult to even notice.

had a USB CompactFlash reader working on LM8.2 for my camera but in LM9 I see this with dmesg ... usbdevfs: remount parameter error hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/1, assigned device number 2 usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x781/0x2) is not claimed by any active driver. SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 2, frame# 259 scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices Vendor: SanDisk Model: ImageMate II Rev: 1.30 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured USB Mass Storage device found at 2 USB Mass Storage support registered. ... And no /dev/sda shows up... When I run Control Center->hardware list And look at the device list I see an entry in Unknow/Others for the deviece... Vendor: SanDisk Corp. Bus: USB Location on the bus: 0:2 Description: SDDR-31 ImageMate CompactFlash Reader / ImageMate SDDR-31 Module: Removable:memory_card Media class: Mass Storage|SCSI|Bulk (Zip) Which looks OK, but the option to Configure module is not working... Anyway I think this is FUBAR for now. I hope they can fix...

OK after it set over night I think supermount or something gave up trying to add the new drives to /etc/fstab. Possibly Maxtor had formatted them with (FAT?) which supermount seems to have the sweets for. After I formatted them as something else supermount may have got the idea and left them alone. Whatever the case making raid went much more normally. One other question if anyone knows, I looked around but did not find the size of EIDE disk LM9.0 kernel is able to support?

Has anyone tried raid 1, mirror, in LM9.0? I have used this with little fuss on 8.0, 8.1, and 8.2. But now I am having lots of problems. I was trying to set this up at work but now, with beer in hand, I am wondering if supermount is involved. I find enters in /etc/fstab and icons on the desktop that don't make much sense. Is anyone else having problems or better luck?