I've been wondering about which variant should I choose for my upgraded machine. It used to run Lupu 5.2.8, on 741 Ultra / Athlon XP 1900+. I started hitting some problems, though, because the processor didn't support SSE2.
So I upgraded: GA-B75M-D3H / i3.
I tried some other distros: FreeBSD 9.1, PC-BSD 9.1 and Debian 6.0.7 none of which installed. Then I installed Linux Mint 14, which installed without any problems, although I had to fetch the graphics driver from a ppa.
Now I discovered another problem: my printer - Canon PIXMA MP140 didn't work via Samba / CUPS+Gutenprint. It hangs after the first job, and power chord must be disconnected to get the printer recovered - even power button doesn't work.
I've been asking around for help (linuxquestions/Mint forums/Ubuntu forums) for about half a month now about what to upgrade/downgrade, but haven't got any answers.
I've begun to think that maybe my HW is already supported by Puppy, and I could try it - especially when I was quite pleased with it (and VERY pleased with the support, even if the developers didn't come to my home in Finland to fix the things - felt not so far from that though) when I had the older HW.
Puppy is probably the best supported distro these days.
The two possible problems are:
- i3 and Intel HD Graphics 2500
- a SATA to PATA converter for my (only) HDD (not sure about this).
The board is EFI-boot capable, but because of an old biggish windows partition, I'd like to keep it non-EFI, like it is now.
So which puplet do you recommend given that I'm quite used to Lupu, but I'm not sure how Lupu supports my HW?
I plan to not use full install (learned that well), but would like to install as permanently residing on the HDD (that is, boots without extra stuff, like CD or memory stick).
Tryout on memory stick would be nice though.
Lupu or some other puplet?
Re: Lupu or some other puplet?
It would be interesting to know if this problem could be solved by using the official Canon driver instead of Gutenprint.turboscrew wrote:Now I discovered another problem: my printer - Canon PIXMA MP140 didn't work via Samba / CUPS+Gutenprint. It hangs after the first job, and power chord must be disconnected to get the printer recovered - even power button doesn't work.
Lupu or some other puplet?
I can't for sure tell you what your problem is but my pata (40 pin IDE)CD RW drive began to go questionable so being clever (ha ha )I decided to go to a Sata CD RW with a little SATA to PATA adapter.This drive booted fine (live CD) but this is where the honeymoon stopped.I could no longer view contents and Pburn refused to burn a lick.Needless to say,I must find a direct replacement PATA drive and stay clear of SATA. Good luck !The two possible problems are:
- i3 and Intel HD Graphics 2500
- a SATA to PATA converter for my (only) HDD (not sure about this).
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PC-BSD 9.1 didn't even start:
The start-up stopped, when it didn't find /bin/sh and wanted a shell. the only shell it accepted was csh, but any command in csh(1) crashed with a segmentation fault. Even ls(1). Writing /bin/<tab> let me see what was there in /bin, and all the shells seemed to be there.
The FreeBSD 9.1 installed, but X didn't.
Since 9.1 has no packages, I used 9-stable/Latest.
It's just that the Intel HD-graphics weren't there to be installed.
Debian Live CD boot failed with:
"cat: can't open '/sys/block/*/removable': No such file or directory"
Then it ended up with:
(initramfs)
So Mint and FreeBSD seemed to handle the HDD, but the adapter may have something to do with PC-BSD and Debian Live CD failing?
Only HDD has the adapter, DVD doesn't.
That's why I'm asking. I have Mint up and running, and I didn't want to start another hassle. The shared printing just doesn't work, and I don't know what to do about it.
With lupu, the shared printing worked fine - far better (and faster) than with windows.
The start-up stopped, when it didn't find /bin/sh and wanted a shell. the only shell it accepted was csh, but any command in csh(1) crashed with a segmentation fault. Even ls(1). Writing /bin/<tab> let me see what was there in /bin, and all the shells seemed to be there.
The FreeBSD 9.1 installed, but X didn't.
Since 9.1 has no packages, I used 9-stable/Latest.
It's just that the Intel HD-graphics weren't there to be installed.
Debian Live CD boot failed with:
"cat: can't open '/sys/block/*/removable': No such file or directory"
Then it ended up with:
(initramfs)
So Mint and FreeBSD seemed to handle the HDD, but the adapter may have something to do with PC-BSD and Debian Live CD failing?
Only HDD has the adapter, DVD doesn't.
That's why I'm asking. I have Mint up and running, and I didn't want to start another hassle. The shared printing just doesn't work, and I don't know what to do about it.
With lupu, the shared printing worked fine - far better (and faster) than with windows.
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Re: Lupu or some other puplet?
I tried:rcrsn51 wrote:It would be interesting to know if this problem could be solved by using the official Canon driver instead of Gutenprint.turboscrew wrote:Now I discovered another problem: my printer - Canon PIXMA MP140 didn't work via Samba / CUPS+Gutenprint. It hangs after the first job, and power chord must be disconnected to get the printer recovered - even power button doesn't work.
I could select the "Canon PIXMA MP140 series" during the printer install.
Synaptic still didn't find anything with "cnijfilter".
I tried installing the drivers from Canon website, but:
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$ sudo dpkg -i cnijfilter-common_2.80-1_i386.deb
(Reading database ... 178707 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace cnijfilter-common 2.80-1 (using cnijfilter-common_2.80-1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement cnijfilter-common ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of cnijfilter-common:
cnijfilter-common depends on libcupsys2 (>= 1.2.1).
dpkg: error processing cnijfilter-common (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
cnijfilter-common
Has the CUPS system changed since 1.5?
BTW, does i386 work with 64-bit linux anyway?
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Aha, the compilation problem has already been addressed...
http://askubuntu.com/questions/41077/in ... d64-system
Maybe...
http://askubuntu.com/questions/41077/in ... d64-system
Maybe...