Hello All,
I forgot to mention the display manager, which is also where
significant issues about the UI arise for me. The old Windows 3.x
interface was limited, but functional. Gnome, and others, did add and
improve, but the latest iterations have forgotten usability as much as
the much reviled Windows 10 "tiles" interface. Some of my query does
address issues with Gnome, and I am open to discussion of alternative
window/display managers that might be more like what I am used to.
Regards,
Mark Trickett
I have had this Canon LBP5050N printer quite a while, and it saw some
use with a visitor running Windows on a laptop. I did try to get it up
and running in the past, but the printer driver is something of a
nightmare to install even on a 32 bit system.
Why persist, because it is a photo quality colour laser printer, it
will connect USB, but as the N at the end of the designation
indicates, it has a network connection.
Any help would be appreciated.
Apart from that printer, I will be sorting out a HP LJ4+ with a
network card, not genuine HP, and may need to alter the IP address it
currently has, along with another obsolete colour laser, but I gather
that the support for Brother is much easier.
Regards,
Mark Trickett
Hello All,
I have managed to do a scan with scanimage from the command line, this
was what worked for me.
<quote>
I experience the same problem with 1.0.27-3.2.
Inspecting the udev rules, I found that the file 60-libsane.rules is
missing a line to apply permissions to the device if it has been
recognized.
Such a line is present towards the file’s end in older versions:
ENV{libsane_matched}=="yes", RUN+="/bin/setfacl -m g:scanner:rw $env{DEVNAME}"
Putting this line into a file /etc/udev/rules.d/65-libsane.rules
allows scanners to be recognized normally after a reboot.
-Juergen
<endquote>
I copied the line and put it in the correct file, owned by root, and
group of root, and it is working. There are no other files in
/etc/udev/rules.d/ where I was expecting to find some. I then
unplugged the scanner, and plugged it back in. This is the LIDE 210,
and tomorrow I will try the LIDE 120 that the earlier backends for
sane would not support.
Regards,
Mark Trickett
Hello All,
An "interesting" scanner issue. I have been reading up on Debian bug
reports, and there is similarities, but also differences. I am using
Debian Buster, I think it is up to date, I can scan with Simple Scan,
but not with scanimage from the command line.
I have found the scanner with lsusb, the permissions look right, and
looking at other bits, I cannot see any obvious fault. I have not had
to add myself to the scanner group in the past, and it appears that
may not fix the issue from reading.
I would appreciate comments and suggestions.
Regards,
Mark Trickett
Hello all,
I am having a few problems with Debian 10 (Buster) 64 bit, the image,
even during the boot sequence, more than fills the screen. I loose
some of the text off the left edge of the screen, and more all round
once up and running with Wayland, including the top bar. I also am
having trouble resizing windows, currently Firefox is running
maximised, but I want to reduce it a bit and I am having trouble
getting any response.
It is running on an AMD Ryzen 5 with 16 Gb of ram, and Gigabyte Nvidia
Geforce GT 710 video card (NV106) driving a 24" LED Wintal 12V TV.
While I can comprehend what Wayland is trying to do, and why, I am
finding the discard of the older metaphors and way of working to be a
serious "bug". They do have some excellent ideas, the top left corner
hotspot is not intuitive, at least at first, and the new "menu" is not
without merit, but such abandonment of prior ways of working is more
than just irritating, it gets in the way of doing things.
Regards,
Mark Trickett
https://documentation.suse.com/sles/15-SP1/html/SLES-all/cha-libvirt-config…
For KVM, QEMU, and some other AMD64 virtual machine systems that use QEMU code
you have a choice of pc-i440fx-5.0 (default) and pc-q35-5.0 for the machine
type. The command "kvm -L help" gives you a list of machine types. The above
URL is the only one I could find mentioning the difference, it says that "q35
is an Intel* chipset and includes PCIe, supports up to 12 USB ports, and has
support for SATA and IOMMU".
https://fedorapeople.org/groups/virt/virtio-win/direct-downloads/latest-vir…
I have the virtual IO drivers for storage (included in Linux by default and
available for Windows at the above URL). I use the curses terminal for Linux
VMs and am experimenting with VNC for Windows VMs so don't need USB keyboard
and mouse. I don't need passthrough PCIe and the IOMMU only matters if you
are running a hypervisor not for a guest. So would there be any benefit in
using q35?
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