Mom & Pops on Linux

[RedRed]

My folks had an old PC I configured for them a couple of years ago...

With Windows Genuine Advantage, they started to have 'issues', which spooked them.

Installed the latest Ubuntu for them, and they love it! An old Compaq P3 933 processor with 600Mb Ram, and a 30 GB HD, a G400 installed.

Question.
I am damned if I can get their Canon Pixmedia to work! - its a USB POS, and horrible. I gave them an old LJ5 I had in the mean time. Any one with suggestions on how to get this bubblejet-from-hell to work? I have scoured the forums, it appears that others have had problems with the latest Canon offering and Ubuntu. (possible, USB printing in general)

Byond that its as sweet as a wee nut!

RR

[Haig]

Hi RR,

my buddy had a similar problem but we got it to work after we uncomment the line

application/octet-stream application/vnd.cups-raw 0 -

from the mime.convs file concerning raw printing

He was using the gutenprint cups-raster drivers

Some guy on the ubuntu forums had posted this workaround for his canon:

"I was able to solve the issue by reinstalling gs-esp with following commands:

$ sudo dpkg --purge --force-all gs-esp
$ sudo apt-get install gs-esp

Then I added the comment in mime.convs:
#application/vnd.cups-postscript application/vnd.cups-raster 100 pstoraster

I only needed gs-esp, so I removed gs-afpl and gs-gpl with following command:
$ sudo apt-get --purge remove gs-afpl gs-gpl"

Good luck

[The PIT]

Ah a pirate copy of winblows???

Thats the beauty of linux things that should work that don't or won't.

[RedRed]

If anyone else is stuck on this one - just to let you know that Ubuntu howtos now have a fix - if it works, I will post up the links... apparenetly some ?.so file? is out of date in Ubuntu 6.06

Cya

[leech]

Ah a pirate copy of winblows???

Thats the beauty of linux things that should work that don't or won't.

Though it could also be said of Windows. I think the way I would put it, would be that things that should work in Windows almost work, but not quite the way you wanted it to.

At least with Linux if something screws up or pisses you off, you may think, "Damn! What did I pay for this piece of crap??" When you realize you paid nothing for it, then you feel better. But with Windows, "What did I pay for this piece of crap??" Well, that varies of course, but even if you pirated it, you still paid for it, or are going to sooner or later (usually if you try too hard to pirate a lot of stuff, eventually you'll get a virus. But even if you don't, you still pay for Windows by all the advertisements that your Operating System gets infested by, or by all the anti-virus, firewall, time spent loading, etc.)

Cheers.

Leech

[TnT]

Windows - constantly annoying and low-levels of frustration that eventually explode.

OS X - roller coaster of incredible frustration mixed with incredible amazement.

Linux - works well except when it doesn't then requires hours of digging through online docs and posts.

I use Linux because I actually feel comfortable using it and it fits my workflow. I've had my experience: OS X for 3 years as a sys admin, Windows before and now at work.

[GNEP]

Been playing with Ubuntu myself recently. Last tried linux a few years ago but decided it wasn't for me. Much more impressed this time, and finally worked out why I never quite got on with it before - my monitor (Samsung 900IFT) is just not picked up properly by Linux and so defaults to 640 x 480. Which is too low for the installer to play nice

Dual booting that machine with Vista - we'll see which I end up using more...

[The PIT]

Though it could also be said of Windows. I think the way I would put it, would be that things that should work in Windows almost work, but not quite the way you wanted it to.

At least with Linux if something screws up or pisses you off, you may think, "Damn! What did I pay for this piece of crap??" When you realize you paid nothing for it, then you feel better. But with Windows, "What did I pay for this piece of crap??" Well, that varies of course, but even if you pirated it, you still paid for it, or are going to sooner or later (usually if you try too hard to pirate a lot of stuff, eventually you'll get a virus. But even if you don't, you still pay for Windows by all the advertisements that your Operating System gets infested by, or by all the anti-virus, firewall, time spent loading, etc.)

Cheers.

Leech

Best thing I don't pay for Windows and it's all legal. Of course if Linux was more popular had say 90% of the market share they'd be plenty of Virus's for it and they'd be damn harder to remove. The weakest link is the user. I haven't got the perfect browsing habits and yet I don't get infected with spyware. I haven't had a virus for 15 odd years either.

I haven't had a proper working Linux machine for ages. At the moment I'm not bothered about re-installing it because I know certainly that the Video card won't work as it's too new. Good chance that the DVD drives won't work either. The sound won't work but that ain't Linux's fault thats Creative because they won't release the specs. Swap a hard drive you've got to piss around fixing grub. Even if your hardwares supported theres a good chance for some unknown reason some of it won't run properly.

Documentation is still poor.