Dapper Dan

...and of course, anyone else who wants to join in please do. ProMepis Beta 3 for some mysterious reason comes without sshd running after boot up. For a long time, I thought the problem was with Guarddog. I spent the better part of yesterday trying to get it to intitiate during boot but can't. It comes right up when I run... /etc/init.d/ssh start ...but I can't get it to come up at boot. I tried what it says here, and that didn't work. Can you help me sort this out? Thanks. [Edited by Dapper Dan on 2005-01-12 21:20:09]

Those names would be fine. It really doesn't matter what editor you use. Kate, Gedit will do. You will have to run as root so you could put, kdesu before the command so it will ask for root password.

I don't know what it is, but I'm sure there is a way to include code into what I posted above to shutdown ptal-init and xsane when you exit out of, "scannerstart." If you were going to create another shell script to shut it down, you would leave off the xsane part. Sure whish I knew more about shell scripts. I never seem to be able to find the time to study up on it though... Dapper

I'm certainly no shell script guru, but maybe something like this would work... #!/bin/bash /usr/sbin/ptal-init start | xsane You could put it in your home directory and call it scannerstart. Make an icon on your desktop with the command: [code]sh scannerstart. ...or some such thing. Just an idea...

Installing java can be a real pain if you've never done it. If you need help with it just whistle!

Originally posted by zenarcher: Quote: Well, I THOUGHT I had the problem resolved! Now, once /usr/sbin/ptal-init start is run, SANE finds the scanner and it works great. BUT, then, I cannot print. In order to print, I have to run /usr/sbin/ptal-init stop after which I can print, but not scan. Both have to be run in a terminal as "su" I can live with that, since most of the time I am only printing and can start ptal when I want to scan, then stop it when I'm finished, if there is no solution. Regards, zenarcher I'm pretty sure danleff has this very same problem with his printer/scanner. You have to stop sane in order to print and so on. Luckily enough, ours doesn't have this annoyance. At any rate, you're scanning and that's good news!

Sorry, I can't rmember which distro you use. Is it Fedora? In SuSE, Fedora, Mandriva, You can go into the "services" editor and tell ptal-init to start at start up. In Fedora that would be: Code: system-config-services In SuSE it would be in Yast. In Mandriva, it would be in the Mandriva control center. I'm using Slackware so I'd likely just put the command in /etc/rc.d/rc.local If I were going to use the scanner a lot. If I used it only occaisionally, (which is what I do) I'd likely just start it up when I needed it. Strangely enough, I had to scan 12 pages for a friend tonight. We use a HP officejet v40xi, and it scans and copies perfectly. As a tip, Gthumb is a really good utility to scale, crop and convert images with. A lot easier to do than with Gimp. With Gthumb you do one, then click "next" and do the next one. I'm glad you got it working! Scanner are a real pain the first time around!

Hi Zenarcher, The only thing I can think of is, is the hpoj package installed? After running the ptal-init setup, did you try to get it going with xsane?

While looking around for something else, I found this thread on how to make Firefox even faster than it already is! I tired it, and indeed it does work!

Thanks for the tip daneff! My OO flies now!

Star Office is a hog, no doubt about it. Back when I was using Mandrake 9.0, I'd click on it, go do something else and come back!

Yes, beyond a certain point in on board RAM, a swap will actually slow you down. Unless you are using some huge memory hog app, having no swap with RAM greater than 512 will in most cases increase your performance. In my opinion, with anything over 512 RAM, a swap space becomes unnecessary.

Originally posted by zenarcher: Quote: You learn paranoia can be very, very healthy. Paranoid people make the best drivers and live longer generally... Quote: Without getting particularly political, I'll just say I don't have any more confidence in this government than I had in several others where I've lived and worked. I'll go you one further. I have NO confidence in the Federal government whatsoever. It doesn't matter which party is in office, by and large, they're gonna do everything in their power to make you life as complicated, and as miserable as they can. Quote: Incidentally, I can related to your radio station concerns. I worked in many of them over the years, before the advent of computers and still, the people working there can give you an ulcer! As you know, radio is like no other business. One good thing about it though, it's almost as if computers were specifically designed for the broadcast industry. There are so many ways they are useful from on-air automation systems right down to the business office. We run five computers all networked on a wired LAN. Three boxes run Fedora, one runs DOS and the other runs the Evil OS.

Hi zenarcher, A while back, I caught an employee downloading obscene images on our control room computer. He swears it wasn't him, but it was easy enough to hang him, in that the history on the browser showed the images were downloaded while he was in the control room at our radio station. I fired him for it. I was, and am, concerned that if this happens again, there may be left over images of god knows what on that computer. What if the authorities do a sting operation of some sort, and there I am left holding the bag with pictures of naked underage girls on my computer! I don't know for a fact that this is what he was downloading, but what if he was!! This does concern me... I wish I knew if I clean out the picture cache in the browser if that is all that is needed, or are those images floating around somewhere else on my hard drive. I know in Windows, they are. In Linux? I just don't know. I've looked for answers to this, but unfortunately, I've come up empty... Not insinuating this is what you are wanting to eliminate. Just thought I'd share with you the concerns I have about this as well.

danleff has championed Puppy for a long time, and after playing around with it, I have to agree... Puppy rocks! They are doing a lot of very interesting things over there...

...as compared to what?

The screen on our Toshiba went blank after just one year, (right when the warranty ran out... planned obsolescence...) I can't recommend Toshiba anymore...

It's been a while but the fix is in your bios. It's hard to remember, but you have to go in and change the value of the amount of memory your video is given. That fixes it immediatley when you change it to the highest setting. Sorry I can't remember the details, I hope this helps though. Let us know how you come out...

LOL! Those are good! With my wife I don't get no respect. I made a toast on her birthday to 'the best woman a man ever had.' The waiter joined me. I'm not a [censored]y guy. I went to a hooker. I dropped my pants. She dropped her price. I tell you, I'm not a [censored]y guy. I was the centerfold for Playgirl magazine. The staples covered everything! What a childhood I had, why, when I took my first step, my old man tripped me! Last week I told my psychiatrist, "I keep thinking about suicide." He told me from now on I have to pay in advance. I tell ya when I was a kid, all I knew was rejection. My yo-yo, it never came back! Oh, when I was a kid in show business I was poor. I used to go to orgies to eat the grapes. When I was a kid I got no respect. The time I was kidnapped, and the kidnappers sent my parents a note they said, "We want five thousand dollars or you'll see your kid again." I tell ya, my wife was never nice. On our first date, I asked her if I could give her a goodnight kiss on the cheek - she bent over! I tell you, with my doctor, I don't get no respect. I told him, "I've swallowed a bottle of sleeping pills." He told me to have a few drinks and get some rest. Some dog I got too. We call him Egypt because he leaves a pyramid in every room. With my dog I don't get no respect. He keeps barking at the front door. He don't want to go out. He wants me to leave. What a dog I got. His favorite bone is in my arm! Last week I saw my psychiatrist. I told him, "Doc, I keep thinking I'm a dog." He told me to get off his couch. I worked in a pet store and people kept asking how big I'd get. My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met. I'll tell ya, my wife and I, we don't think alike. She donates money to the homeless, and I donate money to the topless! One night I came home. I figured, let my wife come on. I'll play it cool. Let her make the first move. She went to Florida. I asked my old man if I could go ice-skating on the lake. He told me, "Wait til it gets warmer." My doctor told me to watch my drinking. Now I drink in front of a mirror. I drink too much. Way too much. My doctor drew blood. He ran a tab. When I was born the doctor came out to the waiting room and said to my father, "I'm very sorry. We did everything we could...but he pulled through." I come from a stupid family. During the Civil War my great uncle fought for the west! My father was stupid. He worked in a bank and they caught him stealing pens. My mother had morning sickness after I was born. My mother never breast fed me. She told me that she only liked me as a friend. My father carries around the picture of the kid who came with his wallet. When I played in the sandbox the cat kept covering me up. I could tell that my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio. One year they wanted to make me poster boy... for birth control. I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent back a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof. My uncle's dying wish was to have me sitting on his lap. He was in the electric chair. Once when I was lost I saw a policeman and asked him to help me find my parents. I said to him, "Do you think we'll ever find them?" He said, "I don't know kid. There are so many places they can hide."

I guess this is as good a time as any for Rodney Dangerfield jokes.... My wife's cookin' is terrible! It's so bad the flies patched the hole in the screen door! I went into the kitchen just this morning and the roaches had hung themselves... Talk about fat! She's so fat she was standing on a street corner and a cop ran up with a billy club and shouted, "Break it up! Break it up!" She's so fat our bathtub has stretch marks! She went swimming in Lake Superior and left a ring around it! I get no respect! I had a chat with my mailman just the other day. We were talking about our kids. He showed me a picture of his kids and they were mine! My wife says she likes to talk during [censored]. The other night she called me from a motel room... Just last week I bought a used car. I found one of my wife's dresses in the back seat...

Nvidia all the way. Once you get the accellerator drivers installed, it's easy to keep them updated by doing: Code: nvidia-installer --update

When you did the install, did you configure a firewall? You know, I can remember that I seem to have had a harder time staying connected while I was using Mandrake than when I switched to RH. It doesn't make sense that that could be the case, but maybe there could be something to it. When you try to connect in the Mandrake Control Center, it says "connectiion failed?" Or are you just testing with your browser?

I have the EX560LKA. I wrongly assumed they all were using the same chipset. Which one are you using linuxlove?

I'm really getting alarmed at all these ppp errors folks seem to be getting with the Actiontec serial modem. There just seems to be a rash of them here lately, and I'm not sure what the problem is. I've used mine with just about every major distro and with kernels from 2.2 to 2.6.10 and it has never failed me. This leads me to believe their might be something different with some ISP's that I'm not experiencing, or maybe there is some sort of configuration in kppp that is causing the problem. To all who are recieving this error, I presume you are using kppp? I've had better luck all the way around with wvdial. It's a command line dialer that is easy to configure and use. You might want to try it if you are now using kppp. Then, if you ARE using wvdial, try kppp. I wish I could help more...

Real easy. Open /boot/grub/grub.conf with your favourite editor as root. You will have two entries, one for Fedora the other for XP. Notice at the top of the file you will see something like.... default 0 In grub, everything is one number behind. Change the "0" to a "1," save and reboot. You should then boot to XP first.