Hi All After printing successfully for some weeks CUPS has set the default to letter and I live in Europe and want the default to be A4 My printer: Dell 3130cn Color Laser Location: Local Printer Driver: Dell 3130cn Color Laser v3017.104 PS (color, 2-sided printing) Connection: usb://Dell/3130cn%20C...

Hi Thanks for the link to the fix advice, but I couldn't get the chmod instruction to work, I just couldn't work around the access privileges required to use it. So I started Fatdog with savefile = none which gave me access to CUPS so after restoring all my local settings and setting up the printer ...

Hi All

Printing has stopped working and CUPs reports server error on http://localhost:631/admin.

I presume there is some access error to the relevant files, is there a way of reestablishing access?

Happy New Year

Joe Rice

Hi All Its fixed! it was due to a muted first channel in AlsaMixer reading mm instead of 00. I haven't got the green speaker icon back at the bottom of the screen so any advice on getting this displayed again would be welcome, Anyway I'm off to listen to some music, thanks for all the advice Cheers ...

Hi Chapchap70 Thanks for the advice, but I cannot see a volume/speaker control I must have an earlier version of Fatdog. Do you know where the speaker mute (if any) is situated in earlier fatdog versions? I have checked the audio out jacks and they are fine. Hang on a mo. I do recall a green speaker...

Hi All I returned to an old Fatdog64 (installation on a spare hard drive) after a number of years and everything worked great for about 2 weeks, but now the sound has stopped working! is it possible to inadvertently mute it? If so I would be grateful for the un-mute instruction?. The Multiple sound ...

I still have problems with Firefox not starting despite the suggested edit I am now accessing this site via Opera. On clicking on the Firefox icon I get nothing happening. If I right click on the desktop and and select Firefox from the Internet options I get: Failed to execute child process (no such...

Hi Guys
Can you help with this one. I couldn't install a gmail talk patch from Firefox as not in root so read that I should start Firefox from terminal by entering Firefox at the prompt. I did so and could now install then patch but on reboot Firefox won't start.

Any suggestions ?

cheers

Joe Rice

Hi Dewbie Further to your question: Are you running the regular version of Lucid 5.25, or 5.25 retro? (5.25 retro is a special build for older hardware.) If you're not sure, look under: Menu / System / HardInfo / Operating System If the listed kernel is 2.6.30.5, that's Lucid Retro. This is what it ...

Hi I cannot remember I will try tomorrow on the Fatdog machine to see what I did to get this Showing 4 of 4 active jobs. ▼ ID ▼ Name User Size Pages State Control Dell_3130cn_Color_Laser-1 Unknown Withheld 78k Unknown stopped "/etc/cups/interfaces/Dell_3130cn_Color_Laser failed" What comma...

Hi I have Puppy Linux 5.25 running on an old Sharp XP laptop See Details: -Computer- Processor : Mobile AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1500+ Processor Memory : 482MB (197MB used) Operating System : Unknown distribution User Name : root (root) Date/Time : Wed 02 Jan 2013 17:51:04 GMT -Display- Resolution : 1024x7...

If I select to install the printer driver I get the following: DellLaser (Idle, Accepting Jobs, Not Shared) Description: Laser Printer Location: Office Driver: Local System V Printer (grayscale) Connection: parallel:/dev/usb/lp0 Defaults: job-sheets=none, none media=unknown Jobs Search in DellLaser:...

Install the Dell driver PET above. 2. Open Menu > System > CUPS manage printers. 3. Click the Administration tab. 4. Select Add Printer. 5. From Other Network Printers, select AppSocket/HP JetDirect 6. In the next screen there is a text box containing the word "socket". 7. Replace "so...

Sorry for the delay in responding to your query. I ran into a few unexpected medical issues which impacted my use of computers, so I had to concentrate on work related stuff, which I needed to run in a highly magnified formats. I made loads of mistakes, spreadsheets took me hours to complete, when t...

Re Configuring the Printer Code: /usr/lib/cups/backend/usb Do you get the same garbage as in the logs? Answer yes If that is the case, there may be a back-door way of installing it. From the list, select AppSocket/HP Jet Direct. My Question How? For the URI, delete the word "socket" and re...

Cups error log displays bad line from USB see: I [10/Nov/2011:21:27:16 +2300] Started "/usr/lib/cups/daemon/cups-deviced" (pid=18779) E [10/Nov/2011:21:27:16 +2300] [cups-deviced] Bad line from "usb": direct usb://Dell/3130cn%20Color%20Laser "Dell 3130cn Color Laser" &q...

Hi All I can report success on the following: 1 Sound output increased after following your advice the output level is acceptable....Thanks for the info 2. The WINE system is working fine again thanks for your advice. Printing However, I still have problems with printing despite installing the sugge...

Dear All Thanks for all the helpful advice I will try implementing these tips later today and update you on progress. I did wonder before posting my note whether I should post here or in the beginners section of puppy, from your helpful suggestions I take it you welcome new user fatdog queeries here...

Hi Everyone With my WinXP getting slower and slower I decided to install Linux on a spare drive and thought I would go for the 64bit version of puppy as I had all sorts of problems trying to install Ubuntu on my hardware SATA drives XFC mother board and Nivdia video and sound cards. Implementation h...

I tried the various suggestions: puppy pfix=ram mount pup_save (bouble click) and delete .wh files inside or, start with puppy layerfs=aufs But found that I couldn't mount the hard drive if I ran puppy exclusively in RAM. The solution was to run puppy pfix=purge this fixed the broken file system and...