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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

Got the problem resolved! Here was the resolution..... In /etc/rc.d/boot.local I had to add this line: /usr/sbin/ptal-init start Once I did that and rebooted the system, the scanner worked perfectly! Now, just to figure out the parallel port problem on the other box.... zenarcher

Okay, I'm making progress on the scan problem with the PSC 1401, even if I'm not on the parallel port problem with the HP T45. Here's the deal, so maybe Dan can help me with this. Here is what I did: I did some more reading and found that SOMETIMES, having both HP print drivers installed creates a problem. This printer unit requires you to use the old hpoj driver. So, I went into YAST and deleted the new hpijs(or something like that). I then went back into /etc/sane.d/dll.conf and had to remove the comment again on hopj, using the vi editor. Now, I tried once again to scan and IT WORKED! Now, here is the problem: I rebooted the computer and could not scan, following the reboot. I then went into a terminal as su and ran usr/sbin/ and ran ptal-init start Following that, I could once again scan! So, apparently, upon reboot, I have to run usr/sbin/ptal-init start before I can scan. Is there something I can do so I don't have to open a terminal as su, then run usr/sbin/ptal-init start, every time I reboot the system, before I can once again scan? Regards, zenarcher

Yes, Dan hpoj is installed...I checked on that. Also, I deleted out the comment #, as instructed in the HP info. I also rebooted before and after all that...trying SANE both times, but SANE and KOOKA don't show, nor can they find the scanner. I'm sure I'm missing some step, but just not sure what. Here is another oddity I'm having. I have another box, just like this one. I took my old HP T45 off this machine (where it printed fine, except the color was getting some lines through it) and moved it over to the other system. The other system is the same motherboard (MSI KT6V), same SUSE 10.0...everything the same. But, on the other machine, I cannot install the HP T45 as it doesn't find the parallel port! I'm using the same parallel cable and everything. I even went into the BIOS and made sure the parallel port is set to ECC, just as this one is. Yet, it works on this box, but not the other, if anyone has any ideas there. It is not communicating with the parallel port, as it appears to me. zenarcher

I'm only guessing here, but possibly something to do with BIOS or configuration with Windows on the same drive. I use the MSI KT6V motherboard (I have two boxes on my network with the same mobos), which use the VIA8237. I'm using WD SATA drives. Installing two previous versions of Mandriva, I remember seeing the same messages you are getting, but without the errors. In fact, the message was there so briefly, during the install, it was difficult to read it all before it disappeared. The installation worked fine with the MSI motherboard and the SATA drives. Setting them up in a RAID array was impossible for me with Mandriva, but as straight SATA drives, there was no problem. I'm now using the same motherboards, with the same SATA drives...but easily set up in RAID0, with SUSE 10.0. Same with the previous version of SUSE. As such, I don't think the problem is with either Mandriva, the MSI motherboard, the SATA drives or the VT8237. zenarcher

I've done some reading, but as usual, I'm still lost. Here's the situation: I have two boxes using SUSE 9.3 (getting ready to switch to OpenSUSE 10.0 in about a week). They are both on my home network. I have one HP T-45 multifunction printer (connected to one box and working through parallel port). No Windows boxes are involved on my network. I would like to set up so both of the SUSE Linux boxes can share the HP t-45 print functions. I am sure there is a way and should be able to be done through YAST, but I'm at a loss as to how. Does anyone have any experience with this, who could walk me through it? Thanks, zenarcher

Could you tell me how you did this update to Evolution 2.4? I'm also running SUSE 9.3 and would like to upgrade to Evolution 2.4. I'm not having much luck. I tried to add a Gnome update source, but I ran into a bunch of compatibility errors, so decided not to install. I'd be curious to know where and how you did the upgrade. Regards, zenarcher

I have installed and run all three of these programs without any problems, with Mandriva 2005. There must be some other problem, here, probably related to the initial install, or as Danleff says, due to missing libraries. In fact, Acroread and Firefox are in the Madriva 2005 package and should be installed directly from there. As a precaution, I always remove the old Firefox version, before installing a newer version. Doing so, you do not lose your bookmarks or settings. Rather than installing Firefox from the Firefox website, I would suggest getting the RPM from RPM Search. In that way, the new version will install automatically, without any hassle at all. You can find it at RPM search at the link below: http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/2/simple/2 Just select your Mandriva version and search for Firefox. Make sure you select the proper Firefox version for your Mandriva version. You can find RPM's for many applications from RPM Search. Likewise, with Mandriva, I would install all the extra packages, not included with the Mandriva disks from PLF. Very easy to do. Enter the requested information and PLF will provide you with text to copy and paste into a terminal. Make sure you "su" in the terminal before you paste the text. Then, hit Enter and all the extra packages will install. You will get many packages Mandriva cannot include with the disks. You can get the Easy URPMI here: http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ Also, if this is a new install of Mandriva, make sure you have performed all the Mandriva updates. There will be many of them. Hope this helps, zenarcher

If anyone wants to try the Firefox Version 1.4.1 update for SUSE 9.3, there is an RPM available to do so. This link is for the I586 version, however there is also a 64 bit version available. http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/2265495/com/MozillaFirefox-1.4.1-1.1.i586.rpm.html Regards, zenarcher

Actually, after downloading and installing, turns out no matter what the RPM says, it's really Version 1.5 RC2. So far, it's working perfectly. You do have to reinstall extensions and not all extensions have been upgraded to work with this version. In any event, it seems to work great and worth the effort! Regards, zenarcher

If anyone wants to update their current version of Firefox to the latest Firefox 1.0.7, using an easy RPM, which can be installed with YAST, here is where you can download the new Firefox.... ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/mozilla/firefox/ Regards, zenarcher

I haven't used a dialup connection in many years, but remember some of the possible problems. Have you tried connecting a telephone to the end of the extension, you plug into the modem, to see if you have a dial tone, with a telephone? Possibly, you have no signal at the end of that extension line. Also, there is a possibility of a poor connection at the telepone junction box, causing a noisy line or loss of connection. If you get no dial tone with a telephone at that point, you might have to get telephone service there. I remember encountering a couple of times when there was a loose, corroded connection at the box, causing noise or a loss of signal. Regards, zenarcher

Yup. The visual isn't very pretty! zenarcher

Wish I could help with that, but I've never run Windows on the same box with Linux, so I'm not much help. I'm sure someone here will come up with an idea to resolve the issue. Regards, zenarcher

I have used Mandriva from Mandrake 10.0 through Mandriva 2005LE, with WD SATA drives and the VIA 8237 chipset without any install problems. Of course, I didn't try to install Mandriva with Windows on the system....it's strictly a Linux box. Shouldn't be a problem due to the VIA chipset nor the SATA drives, I wouldn't think. I'm currently using SUSE 9.3 with the same VIA chipset and WD SATA drives, but now two of them in RAID0 array. Again, no problems. I'd guess possibly something to do with Windows being on the drives, as well. Both of my SATA drives are jumpered for Auto, as I remember. zenarcher

Here's the response I got from the DSL forum. It looks to be quite simple and literally "idiot proof." After I give it the idiot test, I'll let everyone know, but sure looks easy enough!!! Especially, where I want to be able to just run DSL from inside Windows. "QEMU is part of the DSL-embedded package. If you are going to exclusively use DSL from inside a running Windows operating system, then you should download the dsl-embedded version and unzip the contents into your USB pendrive. Then double-click on the dsl-windows.bat file and you are up and running. It is also possible to get a "5-way" install up and running, and this lets you boot dsl either natively or via QEMU from inside Windows or another Linux OS. For this method, first download dsl.iso and then burn a DSL cd-r disk. Then boot into DSL and choose Apps -> Tools -> Install to Pendrive -> USBHDD install (I prefer it to USBZIP unless your BIOS only supports USBZIP booting). Then after compeleted, download the 5-way install script from the dsl download site and run it on your pendrive. It will then download and install the embedded version." Regards, zenarcher

Thanks for the clarification, Danleff. I don't think I had explained what I was trying to do, as clearly as I should have. Since my idea for using the pen drive with DSL, is that I would be able to take it with me to plug into any computer with a USB port, I'm trying to figure how to get around having to boot from the USB drive, since a lot of older computers don't have a boot from USB option. Likewise, since the pen drive is so small, I'd like to avoid having to carry a floppy disk around with it. More than likely, any computer I'd plug into would be running Windows. From my reading, there is a way to boot into DSL directely from inside Windows. I believe, from what I've read, they use QEMU, some sort of emulator application. I'm not sure whether QEMU and DSL will both fit on a 128M pen drive. Nor, am I sure exactly how everything has to be set up on the pen drive to do so. I've posted the question on the DSL forum and I'll let everyone know here, what I find out from that forum. The DSL CD is a bit confusing, but I finally figured how to boot it like a live CD, loading into memory only. It was a matter, once I booted from the CD, to hit F2 and find the correct boot option command to do so. I guess that had me a bit confused, as well. I confuse easily! Ah Ha! I have finally figured out a lot more about the DSL CD! I did some more reading at the DSL forum and ran across something interesting! Easier to install to the pen drive than I could have imagined! Going to the menu, after doing a Live CD load of DSL, I can go to Applications>Tools and there are a dozen choices as to what you want to do. You can do frugal installs, HD installs or whatever. Among those choices is to install to a pen drive. There are also options for making a boot floppy drive and so forth. I haven't tried it yet, until I get a few more details, but it appears I can merely install DSL to the pen drive, right from that group of options. If I merely wanted to make a floppy boot disk, I could do so there, but I'm trying to find more info on installing QEMU, to see if I couldn't do that and merely start DSL, directly from inside a Windows computer. I'll most more as I find out. Regards, zenarcher

Thanks much for the information, Danleff. I'll go check that out. And also, thanks for telling me what to do with those files on it. I didn't see any need for them, myself, in this application. So, I'll just save them somewhere else and get them off the jump drive. I'll let you know how I do, after I've checked that link. I'm guessing that it isn't set up as a secure drive, unless I set it up what way, which I have not. Okay, I've read the information at the website, Danleff. I don't see any mention of Linux, whatsoever, unless I missed something. Also, I did remove the Windows and Linux folders for Secure off the jump drive, as I don't see a use for them at this time. There is still a DOS file there for autorun and I wonder if I need it, or if I can remove it, as well. Any idea on that? When I plug the Jump Drive in to a USB port, I get a Jump Drive icon which pops up on my SUSE 9.3 desktop. I'm guessing that's a good thing. Also, since Konqueror opens, I'd guess that the Jump Drive is formatted in a way that Linux can read it. If I'm wrong, please let me know. I'd think I could probably copy all the files off the DSL CD, onto the Jump Drive and should be able to run it, even if as a Live CD. Regards, zenarcher [Edited by zenarcher on 2005-09-11 15:49:13]

When I run dmesg, here is what I get. I think this is the info you are looking for: Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. Vendor: LEXAR Model: JUMPDRIVE SECURE Rev: 3000 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00 SCSI device sdg: 252928 512-byte hdwr sectors (129 MB) sdg: assuming drive cache: write through SCSI device sdg: 252928 512-byte hdwr sectors (129 MB) sdg: assuming drive cache: write through sdg: sdg1 Attached scsi disk sdg at scsi3, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Attached scsi generic sg6 at scsi3, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 0 usb-storage: device scan complete If I go to YAST>Hardware>Hardware Info>USB Storage-MSC> I see Jumpdrive Secure Device Name: /dev/sdg Device_Name2: /dev/sg6 Driver: USB Storage Not sure where I go from there, or if I've supplied all the information you suggested. When I plug the device into a USB port, Konqueror opens and I see a folder called, JD Secure. If I click on that, I get two folders...one for Windows and one for Linux. Clicking on either one of them, I get a README file explaining about how to set up a Secure Drive. I don't know if this is something I need to keep or use, or what. I might also mention that I have USB ports all over this box. There are four of them on the motherboard and another 4 on a PCI card....and I have a 6 way multi-card reader in the system, which is also read. Regards, zenarcher

Hi, Justbill. No, I haven't tried to put anything on the jump drive with SUSE 9.3, so I'm not sure about that problem. When I connected the jump drive, I did have a window open, which showed three folders on the jump drive...with ReadMe files and some sort of Secure Drive application....one folder for using Mac, one for Windows and one for Linux. I don't know if any of those are of value, but I don't see myself ever using anything for Mac, so I deleted the folder for using Mac. I was able to delete the folder just fine, but I don't know yet about adding anything to the drive. I wonder if anyone else has had that experience of not being able to add data, using SUSE 9.3. If I get a chance today, I'll try to put something on the jump drive, even a picture or something...and let you know what happens. Regards, zenarcher

Thanks much, Danleff, I'll give it a shot. Regards, zenarcher

I think you may be right about that, Ian....as the HP T-45 is connected by the parallel port. I'll try removing hplip and see if that takes care of the problem. danleff, I'm really looking forward to SuSE 10.0. Think I'll wait until next month, for the release and give it a go them. My Linux skills aren't such that I feel too comfortable with the Beta's. I think the regular SuSE 10.0 is supposed to be released on 6 October. At least this time, even doing a clean install, I'm pretty confident about setting up my SATA RAID0 array with it. Works fine with SuSE 9.3. First time I've actually been able to get it to work with any distro. I also have a couple of glitches with Gnome Games in 9.3. SameGnome will not allow you to save high scores. Until that works, there's no way I'm going to convince my wife to switch from Mandriva 2005 to SuSE! Regards, zenarcher

I gave that a try, Ian and yes, it does work! I can then open XSANE and scan a document! I cannot print, after that, but if I reboot the system, it will come back up and print. If I want to scan again, I have to open a terminal and enter the command and go through the setup. Not a real problem, as at least I know how to do it now and scan. If the printer is working, XSANE says it can't find a scanner. If I enter the command in a terminal (as su) I can then scan, but nothing happens if I try to print. Under printers, when I try to print, I have two shown officejettseries and officejettseries1. Regards, zenarcher

Thanks much for the information, Ian. I know the T-45 worked perfectly with Mandriva 2005....just encountered the problem with SUSE 9.3. I don't know what to expect with SUSE 10.0, as I will get that as soon as it's released. I'll check out the information in the link you suggest and maybe I can get the scanner going for the T-45. Regards, zenarcher

I'm right there with you, Justbill. I'm waiting for SUSE 10.0, next month, as well. My old HP T-45 has the same problem...I can print, but I can't scan with SUSE 9.3. I'm probably going to go ahead and buy a new HP multi-function printer, since this one is so old, anyway. zenarcher