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canon pixma printing

Posted: Tue 20 Jan 2009, 20:16
by johnmd
Hi Plankenstein
not sure you need anything extra - i got my new canon pixma mp 190 to work straight off with the cups version already in Box Pup 410 (but i have BP as full install on hard drive) - make sure your printer is switched on when you click on the <do you want to add a new printer -YES> option and then cups recognises there is a usb-printer-canon on the system (shows up in the drop down list) and then i just had to choose the canon pixma mp 150 driver from the next drop down list and it worked fine - only needed to reset from default <letter> to <A4> in the <configure printer> section and it's fine - oh and set printer as default. Hope it works for you too. best wishes, John

Posted: Fri 23 Jan 2009, 15:32
by wosifat
Me again. Sorry.
I went throught the network wizard to get wifi working. It saw the connection and said it was working, but my web browser can't get on the internet and the internet activity in the bars in Conky are flatlines. Anyone?
If it helps, Dell Inspiron 1300. Celeron 1.5G, 512MB RAM, intergrated wifi.
Oh yeah, I added lines to Conky for battery percentage, time, and a meter of the battery, but all the meter shows is a line, not a gauge like, say, the membars.

Re: canon pixma printing

Posted: Fri 23 Jan 2009, 22:56
by smokey01
johnmd wrote:Hi Plankenstein
not sure you need anything extra - i got my new canon pixma mp 190 to work straight off with the cups version already in Box Pup 410 (but i have BP as full install on hard drive) - make sure your printer is switched on when you click on the <do you want to add a new printer -YES> option and then cups recognises there is a usb-printer-canon on the system (shows up in the drop down list) and then i just had to choose the canon pixma mp 150 driver from the next drop down list and it worked fine - only needed to reset from default <letter> to <A4> in the <configure printer> section and it's fine - oh and set printer as default. Hope it works for you too. best wishes, John
Hi johnmd.

My friend has a canon pixma mp190 but is having problems getting it to work. This is using Puppy 4.1.2 Retro not boxpup 4.1.2. Is boxpup based on Retro or normal Puppy?

I think the cups in puppy and boxpup would be the same.

cups sees the printer and the drivers appear to be loaded it just doesn't print.

Another thing, does the scanning and copy function work?

Thanks

Grant

Posted: Fri 23 Jan 2009, 23:23
by smokey01
Grey,

Is BoxPup based on the 2.5.25.16 kernel rather than the older 2.6.21.7 version?

Unfortunately for some reason my computer hangs with the later kernel. I have discussed this a number of times on the forums but to date no one has been able to offer a solution.

If you have any ideas to fix my problem I would be very grateful as I really like the look of BoxPup.

When I boot from a CD it gets to the stage where you choose your mouse type and the keyboard does not work. Prior to this the keyboard works fine

Thanks

Smokey

Posted: Mon 26 Jan 2009, 20:15
by Uden
wosifat wrote:I went throught the network wizard to get wifi working. It saw the connection and said it was working, but my web browser can't get on the internet and the internet activity in the bars in Conky are flatlines. Anyone?
Hi wosifat,
i have the same problem with my desktop. Have you found a solution?

The network wizard finds my wifi (wpa protected), connects and gets an ip address assigned. But the browser cannot connect to the internet.
With the same version of Boxpup and network wizard on my laptop, everything is working fine.

thanks,
Uden

(a newbie who tries to replace Windows on all home computers with this Linux distribution)

Posted: Tue 27 Jan 2009, 17:30
by T_Hobbit
I have the some problem.
Sometimes I need to repeat the process 2-3 times to "surf"...

Posted: Thu 05 Feb 2009, 09:10
by Uden
Uden wrote:The network wizard finds my wifi (wpa protected), connects and gets an ip address assigned. But the browser cannot connect to the internet.
With the same version of Boxpup and network wizard on my laptop, everything is working fine.
Solved, by setting the security check box from 'open' to 'restricted'. Somehow this setting is not needed on the laptop.

Posted: Thu 05 Feb 2009, 09:14
by Uden
I have a new question:
i have used Puppy package manager to install some additionale programs, like Bluefish and Firefox.

But Firefox does not start. And Bluefish complaints abot "Unable to open files: /root/%F". I also noticed that an installation sometimes does not show up in the menu (even after a reboot).

Do i need to make some manual adaptions of a configuration file to be able to use these?

Posted: Fri 06 Feb 2009, 21:54
by 37fleetwood
hi, I wanted to ask a couple questions, please bear with me.
first, I have been playing with Puppy for a few years now and on my computer I'm not noticing that Open Box or Jwm is any faster than something like Xfce. is it only on a slower machine that I'll notice a speed difference?
this brings me to my next question, I am really enjoying Compiz Fusion and love the look of Boxpup. Compiz won't work with Open Box so is Tint available as a pet so I can install it in LXDE or Xfce?
thanks
Scott 8)

Posted: Sat 07 Feb 2009, 10:58
by wosifat
Compiz won't work with Open Box
Oh, well. Was wanting to get rid of a few of Boxpup's standard programs that I don't use as much (Opera, Leafpad) and was maybe thinking of trying Compilz, but never mind now. Is it worth it to try Pet-B-Gone?

Boxpup4.1.2

Posted: Mon 09 Feb 2009, 10:34
by Astra
Wow

Looks great and not just with the for such a small size distinction

However

I have downloaded the Boxup 4.1.2 to CD and am using it in my newish laptop but have tried on my home PC and it does not seem to want to run (doesnt load and goes to kernal panic and fails to syncronise kernals).
I have run Puppy 4.1.2 on this machine but only the retro version

Is there a retro version of Boxpup or can someone tell me how to use on the older machine
By the way this is a Pentium 3 1000 with 750 M RAM

Many thanks

Great Pup

Re: Boxpup4.1.2

Posted: Fri 13 Feb 2009, 23:15
by T_Hobbit
Astra wrote: By the way this is a Pentium 3 1000 with 750 M RAM
I thing I had ran Boxpup412 @ Pentium 3 500 with 256 M RAM without any kind of problem... will try again!

Posted: Sun 15 Feb 2009, 17:03
by Steve_Barker
I have been using Boxpup for a couple of weeks and think it is great. Think this live CD will see me through to Opera 10 being released.

Many Thanks for a great pup.

Posted: Sun 15 Feb 2009, 18:50
by Sage
Might as well run Opera 10alpha - it is excellent and seems to be extremely stable and fully featured for normal use. Shame that we have to suffer without it in the standard versions of Puppy/Woof!

Posted: Sun 15 Feb 2009, 21:26
by wosifat
Latest:
Got Wifi working on my laptop in Boxpup and in Windows (couple chats with Verizon DSL Support.)
Have the battery percentage showing at the bottom of the screen in Conky so that when I'm surfing the web, I can look down and see how much I have left. I still get caught off guard sometimes, though, and had the notebook shut down on me. Are there any programs to give a low battery warning and shutdown like Windows does?
Also, with the battery percentage and time at the bottom of Conky, the CPU meter squeezes down. Any way to get it bigger besides removing its roommates?
There are programs in Boxpup that I don't use and are taking up space. Not much space, mind, but still. I prefer Geany to Leafpad, and some video files won't play properly in Xine, so I mainly use VLC as my media player. I saw somewhere that Pup-B-Gone won't work in Openbox. Any other way to trim the programs?
Back to Conky, and speaking of VLC, I've seen where people have had Conky display the currently playing track (not in VLC yet though, I don't believe) and the weather. Anyone know how to do this?
One of the reasons I do with my laptop is to use it with my camera (a Canon Powershot S3IS.) I've tried downloading the programs that come with the standard Puppy for use with digital cameras, but they seem to work only once, and then crash when you try to use them again. And my camera won't just show up as a portable drive when I hook it up like I've heard of some cameras doing. Anyone have any suggestions for this, and any other suggested photo organization programs. I don't do much editing, but I have the GIMP for what I would do.
Other than that, enjoying Puppy and Boxpup. Thanks again to Grey, Barry, and all others involved.

Thanks, Gray, et al!

Posted: Tue 17 Feb 2009, 00:17
by mechmike
I have put together what I will refer to in the American vernacular as a "ghetto iMac"...

This is an eMachines eOne (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EOne) running Boxpup. It works quite nicely!

Another ten-year-old relic resurrected by Puppy!

BoxPup fails full hd install

Posted: Sun 22 Feb 2009, 20:12
by rfrye7533
Hello.

Not really a noob. Had a problem installing BoxPup 4.1.2 as full hd installation. The universal installer exits prematurely. Here are teh last few lines of output from the universal installer:

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Copying initrd.gz...
Copying .sfs files...
cp: cannot stat `/mnt/sr0/zdrv_*.sfs': No such file or directory
Finished, press ENTER to continue 
I went looking for the file. Here's the listing of the install CD

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total 93838
-r--r--r-- 1 root root     2048 2008-12-17 21:04 boot.cat
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     1087 2008-12-17 20:59 boot.msg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1290622 2008-12-17 20:59 initrd.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    12241 2008-12-17 20:59 isolinux.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root      123 2008-12-17 20:59 isolinux.cfg
-rwx------ 1 root root 93155328 2008-12-17 21:04 pup_412.sfs
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1627180 2008-12-17 20:59 vmlinuz
My guess is that there should be a zdrv_412.sfs listed here, but the live cd runs just fine. I went to ibiblio.org to check for the file and none was available in the sfs files directory.

Help.

Ray

Posted: Mon 23 Feb 2009, 14:03
by wosifat
Don't know if this is just Boxpup or Puppy or what, but...
When I have my laptop in my room, I plug the sound into my stereo so I don't have to deal with the crappy laptop speakers. But if I have it hooked up to the stereo and then unhook it, I have no sound. If I hook it back up, the sound comes through again. Anyone?

UPDATE: Nevermind, it's a problem with my laptop. Did it in Windows, too. Still, anyone have any suggestions?

Posted: Mon 23 Feb 2009, 15:25
by rfrye7533
My guess is that there should be a zdrv_412.sfs listed here, but the live cd runs just fine. I went to ibiblio.org to check for the file and none was available in the sfs files directory.
I was able to do a workaround.

I copied zdrv_400.sfs from an old puppy 4.0 iso and renamed it zdrv_412.sfs. Then I remastered the live cd. I was then able to do a full hd installaiton.

I am willing to upload the iso image so others can use it.

Ray

Posted: Tue 24 Feb 2009, 03:11
by 37fleetwood
Ok, I really like the look of Boxpup, but...
I'm wontering what the benefits of Open Box are. I can delete the task bar from almost any of the other Wm's and it will look like Open Box. what gives? just for kicks, I did just that in wNOP and added Cairo Dock and used the task bar minus the menu button for displaying open programs and it looked great, and had Compiz running, and was as easy to use as Xfce, with Thunar, and a relatively similar size as the regular NOP releases. so Why Open Box?
this isn't a complaint, as I love it's super clean interface, just wondering as a newbie if I'm missing something.