Kernel 2.6.21.5, Slackware 12.0
Is there a linux/unix program that gives the following info?:
(a) Installed hard disks manufacturers names.
(b) Disk geometry (number of cylinders, heads and sectors per track).
I have had bad experiences using Evince and Okular to print SOME pdf files. For example I scanned a bunch of last year's medical records and bills to a pdf file using my scanner and Xsane. I can view the file but not print a page to my Brother laser printer. Same goes with my CITI bank Master Card statements. They appear to be images of the paper statement - not sure if that has anything to do with it.I had to resort to using a Windows 7 virtual machine running the huge bloated brand name Acrobat reader
Anyhow... this afternoon I built a VMWare virtual machine of the latest Ubuntu 10.10 beta. Setup my laser printer and decided to try to print one of my problem files. Evince did not do it. pdftops pegged the CPU at 100% and it stayed there until I killed it. Then one page came out with some not helpful error messages. I then looked in the Software Store and started down the list of pdf viewing programs. However, my plan was to keep trying programs until I found one that worked. Success came soon with ePDFViewer. It works on both 10.10 and 10.04 (my current desktop) and will print any pdf I have thrown at it. I am now a happy camper as far as pdf files are concerned.
I am wanting to put a print icon into a Python program and will use printing via the command line via calling lp or lpr.
So a simple question: Whats the difference between lp and lpr?
Also when you type man lp or man lpr the man page says Apple Inc?
I'm writting an app and I need to get information about all devices in the computer, using the minimum of dependences. ok then ...Now I need to get information about memory, I already selected some information from:
Here is the problem, I need the model and manufacturer of the memory, but none of these is providing this information. dmidecode should, but the field came black.
im searching a kde programm to show current print jobs. I've installed aptosid (actual version).I've searched the repository and I only found printer-applet which does not run in aptosid - I got the following error messages:
Code:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/printer-applet", line 1161, in <module>
[code]...
I used to use notation player to do this in windows, although it works under wine i don't have the ability to print or print as a pdf file so i was wondering if theres a good alternative
View 7 Replies View RelatedWhen I tried to install fedora13, f13's installer kept seeing my hard drives as a "BIOS RAID set (mirrorred)". Ubuntu10.04's installer had the same problem with my drives but that installer was less informative than f13's installer. U10.04's nstaller just stalled in the first screen, the one with the word Ubuntu above five dots, giving no hint as to what it didn't like. My pc came from Dell with 2 identical SATA hard drives in a RAID level one array. I changed CMOS settings from "RAID ON" to "ON" for each hard drive. That did not dismantle the RAID configuration, at least not n a way that satisfied f13's installer.
I reinstalled xp and tried to install f13 after a minimal xp installation. f13's installer detected "BIOS RAID metadata." What is it that f13's installer is detecting? I thought this might have something to do with nVidia's nForce4 Serial ATA RAID controllers. These are installed when you install the version xp that came with my system, not like most other drivers which you install after xp. I contacted nVidia but they couldn't help me with this. Well, it turns out to be Dell's fault. They place this "BIOS RAID metadata" in a special place on each hard drive of a RAID set. It survives even the formatting that accompanies a reinstallation of xp or any os.
If you want to truly dismantle a manufacturer's RAID set, you must use software like "dban" [URL] to thoughly wipe clean the drives. Download dban, burned it to a cd, then boot that cd. dban's auto??? command didn't work for me but its dod command did the trick. The process took about seven hours for each of my 160gb hard drives.
I have seagate 40G IDE PATA hard-disk, 1.5G RAM and would like to extend another 40G hard-disk manufactured by Maxtor. I've Ubuntu 10.10 and Windows XP on different partitions.will it be OK if i extend hard disks by different manufacturer and are there any risk of disk failure probably in the future.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI would like to send a specific option 15, domain-name, to a few clients on a network from a specific manufacturer. Usually all clients [URL] from the DHCP server, but when a client with mac address bellonging to manufaturer A asks for an IP address I would like to give them [URL] How would I go about doing this? Feels like it should be possible but I am not sure how.. I remember doing something similar in a microsoft DHCP server using vendor-identifier and passing out a vendow-specific option.
Quote:
class "xxx" {
match if substring (hardware, 1, 3) = 00:00:10;
option domain-name "yes.this.works.com";
}
/Carl
I wish to read the Manufacturer data and other details such as Device ID, Serial number on a USB drive.
1. Could anyone help me out with information on the memory structure of a USB drive? (which location is the mnfr data stored?)
2. Are there are any commands in Linux that will help in reading/accessing this data?
I am trying to introduce a bar code scanner to Red Hat Ent 5 OS based Box, since the PC is brand new and manufacturer decided not install serial port any more instead I have 5 USB port 1.0v. Unfortunately the scanner device give output on serial port which is incompatible to computer's USB port.I try using converter USB to Serial and Serial to USB; but all efforts are avail and NO reading I can capture in to Linux box. I wonder if any one has configured Bar-code Scanner which has serial port while computer has USB port PLEASE enlighten me if you can
View 2 Replies View RelatedWhen I tried to install fedora13, f13's installer kept seeing my hard drivesas a "BIOS RAID set (mirrorred)".Ubuntu10.04's installer had the same problem withmy drives but that installer was less informative than f13's installer. U10.04's installerjust stalled in the first screen, the one with the word Ubuntu above five dots, giving no hintas to what it didn't like.My pc came from Dell with 2 identical SATA hard drives in a RAID level one array.I changed CMOS settings from "RAID ON" to "ON" for each hard drive. That did not dismantle the RAID configuration, at least notin a way that satisfied f13's installer.
I reinstalled xp and tried to install f13 after a minimal xp installation.f13's installer detected "BIOS RAID metadata."What is it that f13's installer is detecting?I thought this might have something to do with nVidia's nForce4 Serial ATA RAID controllers. These are installed when you install the version xp that came with my system, not like most other drivers which you install after xp.I contacted nVidia but theycouldn't help me with this.Well, it turns out to be Dell's fault. They place this "BIOS RAID metadata"in a special place on each hard drive of a RAID set. It survives even the formatting that accompanies a reinstallation of xp.
If you want to truly dismantle a manufacturer's RAID set, you must use software like "dban" (www.dban.org) to thoughly wipe clean the drives. Download dban, burned it to a cd, then boot that cd. dban's auto??? command didn't work for me but its dod command did the trick. The process took aout seven hours for each of my 160gb hard drives. Hey, i was real impressed by the help i got throughout all the twists and turns that took this problem far away from the original statement Special thanks to Scotty38and to the "Troy Polamalu looking" young man working at Best Buy here in Little Rock, he understands how manufacturer's are shipping their pcs.
I initially had a problem accessing the CUPS interface (see my other post) and got that resolved by adding the user "cupsys". Now, everything "looks" ok, and when I print a test page, it shows it as completed (in CUPS). However, the page never prints.
The printer is a Canon MP600 (using the canonmp600en.ppd file to configure it). Here's the output of my conf file.
Code:
# Show troubleshooting information in error_log.
LogLevel debug
[code]...
Interesting problem: For the first time with Xubuntu 10.10 64bit, I am finding certain applications print corrupt. A varying amount of letters / numbers either get substituted/print a blank space/ print a box etc etc. This corruption seems to happen from a Pdf ( evince ) or Spreadheet ( Gnumeric ) Opening the same Pdf on another machine (ubuntu 10.10 32bit) prints perfectly. Opening the same .xls file on the original computer but using OOo Calc prints perfectly.
I guess I have ruled out any problems with the printer itself or the network JetDirect box. I have re-installed CUPS and evince and upgraded to the latest version of HPLIP but the problem appears unchanged.
I cannot print pdf files. I have tried using okular and xpdf. The documents display in the program, but print preview shows a blank page. The printer then sends out blank pages. I have tried printing on 2 different printers using usb cables. Using terminal to process the commands shows error:
Quote:
xxx@xxx:~$ xpdf
***** MediaBox = ll:0,0 ur:611.976,791.968
***** CropBox = ll:0,0 ur:611.976,791.968
***** Rotate = 0
Segmentation fault
Converting to .ps also is blank.
My wife has a canon MP470 printer and running ubuntu 10.10. I am able to print black and white, but unable to print photos. I got it to work using another driver, but not the 'correct' one for this printer. I have searched a bit and don't see anything about ubuntu 10.10, just older versions. Or should I just network her to my printer....?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI'm running Kubuntu 10.10 with a Laserjet 5M printer. When I attempt to print a job from Firefox or from Okular, the job never gets onto the print queue. However, I can print test pages on the printer and also print from OpenOffice, so this seems to be app-dependent. I know the jobs aren't being queued because the job number doesn't increase (as shown by the jobs for the test pages). Both Firefox and Ocular give every indication that the print job has been processed correctly.
View 1 Replies View RelatedNot sure when CUPS started acting up. I have the latest 13.1 current software installed.The first page to print is always OK, but all succeeding pages are overwritten. The second page shows the first page on top of it, and the third shows the preceding pages on top of it - and so on. Has anyone else seen this problem?I guess the printer buffer is not getting flushed correctly. If my configurations were trashed in some way, I don't know where to look for a fix.
View 14 Replies View RelatedHow can I combine multiple single page prints into a single print job? For example, using Firefox on Linux one can print a web page such that each sheet of paper has four pages printed upon it. I would like to combine several separate web pages so that for example, web-page-a, web-page-b and web-page-c (each less than one print page long) are printed on a single sheet of paper.
I would like to do this without having to use some form of image editor to combine and manage manually created temporary files.
Just installed drivers for Lexmark pro200 - S500 series. However although it is recognised by the system and has a tick by its name, And tells me it is connected via usb file goes to print que but will not print. Also tells me it is Printing - localhost! is this correct?.
View 1 Replies View RelatedOur one remaining problem seems to be printing. She has an HP OfficeJet 6500 USB printer. We have the computer conntected. Strangely, when I boot from the CD the printer shows up as installed even though I did nothing to install it. After having submitted a print job it shows the printer status as "idle" and the print queue is empty. I tried deleting that printer and re-installing. The installation went as one would expect. However the results are the same. I'm beginning to think that somehow the problem is related to the fact that we are operating from the live CD. getting this thing to print from the live CD.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have a debian system installed on my pc . I have just saved a text file on my desktop . Please let me know how can i print the file through comand prompt ? I need to learn the printing the file thru comamnd line .
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am running 9.10. I have a HP Photosmart 7350 printer. I have it installed and printing. But the issue I am dealing with is that it will print a full page and then print a blank page..then a full page..then a blank page. Actually they aren't completely blank..it shows half of "2 of 6" or whatever page it is on. Like it cuts that in half and prints the 2nd half of "2 of 6" onto a separate new page.
View 2 Replies View RelatedHere we go, error 4,384,239,283 in Ubuntu I was trying to load a PDF and print it and only said "print to file" So I go to System >Administration>Printing, and it says "Starting Printing." at the bottom, and then goes away... Sigh, anyone knows whats going on?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI will have to code this. However I am lacking of time since I have too much to do. make a short code bash/dash to prompt the country with Zenity, then, get the PLS or m3u url and prompt with another zenity which radio to play. http://www.listenlive.eu/index.html
My code to get url's radio country.htm is:
Code:
I was wondering whether there is an inbuilt logging system in UNIX?
I ran and installation and the program opened up automatically but I can't find the program executable.
If I could find a log then I could locate this file.
I have problems to get it work. i have tried to use pm-utils, but it does nothing.
What is need is to kill application, when pc is going into suspend to ram and run that application again on wake. It's a graphical application.
I am new to linux and am trying out script writing. I am using shell. How can I make a script to open a program then operate within that program?
View 5 Replies View RelatedIs there anything like burning rom from nero or roxio cd/dvd copier. Do you know of any dvd copying program? like without making the image and then burning with just one process just copy the disc sorta program like roxio dvd copier? I wanted to make copies of movies I made a dvd of but aside from image burn which is a hassle to make the image first. is there something for burning on the fly or dvd/cd copying? infrarecorder and cdburnerxp do not work for me at all.
View 3 Replies View RelatedDoes anyone know if there is a program that behaves the same as Microsoft's OneNote program for linux?
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