F33 just pretends to print
by Michael Hennebry
I have a Brother HL-L2360DL that I'd thought I'd finally managed to install.
I had to go to the Brother website to get a script to run.
The instructions for the script had the wrong name for it.
None of the default options for Brother printers came close.
The CUPS adminstration "web" pages say the right things:
Idle, accepting jobs, two completed jobs.
Nothing actually prints. Not even a test page.
The printer never comes out of deep sleep.
How do I fix this?
It worked with Centos 7, but I do not know what I did.
In my experience, there is no such thing as a small problem when it comes to
installing a printer on Linux:
Either it just works or it requires a mighty effort.
I am getting mighty tired of mighty efforts.
BTW how do I change the default from single- to double-sided?
--
Michael hennebry(a)web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu
"Sorry but your password must contain an uppercase letter, a number,
a haiku, a gang sign, a heiroglyph, and the blood of a virgin."
-- someeecards
1 month
cisco ise
by david richyad
cisco ise helps safeguard your business. It lets you control access throughout your network, see the user and device details, and stop/contain any threats. You can also use it to enforce security policies throughout your network. As a result, it helps prevent any technical issues and strengthens your cybersecurity measures. In short, you can manage your network security with more ease. Everything can be handled in one place, as opposed to needing multiple different applications open at once.
https://www.fieldengineer.com/blogs/cisco-ise-deployment-guide
3 months
Improper shutdown, now Kernel panic.
by murph nj
Hi all:
I've got an odd problem that I was hoping for some help on.
The laptop was previously working fine, I am running F30, updated regularly.
I've got an Acer laptop that has been shutting down suddenly. (I
suspect a bad battery, working on that.)
After a sudden shutdown last night, I now get a kernel panic on boot
right after "Starting Switch Root..."
I was able to boot from a USB stick, and was able to read the journal,
but I didn't see anything obvious to help.
I was able to get all of my data off of the (encrypted) disks, so
that's not a problem, but I don't want to just give up, and wash and
reload too quickly.
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
--murph
3 months, 3 weeks
Xbox 360 controller on Fedora 32
by Greg Woods
It has been a couple of years (which means 4 or 5 Fedora releases ago)
since I did this, but I used to be able to play Xonotic using my Xbox 360
Wireless controller. Now I cannot get the controller to work properly in
F32 (it works in Windows 10 so I know the hardware is OK).
This most likely has something to do with the move from xboxdrv (which is
no longer available in Fedora) to xpad kernel driver, and/or the move from
the old js driver to evdev. The xpad driver comes with the current kernel,
but what I cannot figure out is how to calibrate the controller. If I run
Xontic with the controller connected, the game world just spins
counterclockwise. This is a symptom of the controller needing to be
calibrated, but I don't know how to do it. I tried using "jscal", but if I
run "jscal -c" to calibrate it, it appears to work but doesn't. I can
immediately run "jscal -t" and it will say it is not calibrated, and
running "jstest" also shows it is not calibrated (several of the axes are
not centered, i.e. show nonzero values in jstest).
I attempted to download and compile xboxdrv, but it does not work due to
Python 2 vs. 3 incompatibilities, and it doesn't look like any work has
been done on xboxdrv in quite some time. If I try to make it, I get this:
root@snowcrash xboxdrv-linux-0.8.8]# make
scons
scons: Reading SConscript files ...
File "/local/src/xboxdrv-linux-0.8.8/SConstruct", line 34
print target
^
SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'. Did you mean
print(target)?
make: *** [Makefile:24: xboxdrv] Error 2
Certainly looks like Python version incompatibility.
Can anybody point me to information on how to use an Xbox 360 controller on
F32, or how to calibrate it when using the xpad driver? I have done a lot
of Googling, but most of the articles I found mention things like "apt-get
install xboxdrv", showing they were written for Ubuntu rather than Fedora
and are wanting to use the xboxdrv driver.
Thank you,
--Greg
1 year
midco DNS corruption?
by Michael Hennebry
Whenever I mistype a URL,
it gets turned into food for Midcontinent's search engine.
What is really annoying is that the back
button does not take me back to what I typed.
Also, the search results rarely includes the site I wanted.
My suspicion is that this is done at least partly through DNS corruption.
Anyone know for sure?
I'm running F33 connected directly to Midco's modem/router.
Assuming DNS corruption is at least part of the issue,
how, if at all, do I bypass Midco's DNS?
The problem seems not unique to Midco or F33:
My girlfriend has the same problem with CenturyLink and Ubuntu.
They send her to yahoo.
--
Michael hennebry(a)web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu
"Sorry but your password must contain an uppercase letter, a number,
a haiku, a gang sign, a heiroglyph, and the blood of a virgin."
-- someeecards
1 year, 2 months
Strange Artifacts on the Panel
by Jonathan Ryshpan
I've been seeing strange things on my panel for about a week or two.
They are triangles or lines extending horizontally from a region of
some color, narrowing to a point. They last generally for up to about
30 seconds. Attached is a picture of such an artifact
(PanelArtifact.jpg), taken with my cell phone. Note the black stripe
just above "System Information". Has anyone seen anything like this
System: Fedora-32 all updates installed
Processor: 4 x Intel i5 4460 CPU at 3.2 GHz
Memory: 15.5 GiB RAM
Video System: Xorg (not Wayland)
Graphics: Mesa DRI Intel HD Graphics 4600
KDE Plasma: 5.20.5
KDE Framework: 5.78.0
1 year, 2 months
Plasma on Xorg Fails to Start After Last System Update
by Stephen Morris
Hi,
Three days ago I did a dnf system upgrade to apply all available
Fedora updates. I have now tried to start Plasma under Xorg, but it now
refuses to start with a crash in ksplashqml, and if I press
ctrl-alt-delete to try to logout the ksmserver-greeter also crashes.
Plasma under Wayland runs quite happily albeit without resolution
scaling. Gnome under Wayland runs fine without scaling and Gnome under
Xorg also runs fine. How do I determine why the apps are failing with
Plasma under Xorg now?
regards,
Steve
1 year, 2 months
rdma-core-32.0-1.fc33.i686 has inferior architecture
by ToddAndMargo
Hi All,
Anyone know what this is `dnf upgrade` error is
all about?
Problem: cannot install both rdma-core-33.0-1.fc33.x86_64 and
rdma-core-32.0-1.fc33.x86_64
- rdma-core-32.0-1.fc33.i686 has inferior architecture
- cannot install the best update candidate for package
rdma-core-32.0-1.fc33.x86_64
- problem with installed package rdma-core-32.0-1.fc33.i686
Many thanks,
-T
1 year, 2 months
How to build rpm Krita from krita.spec ?
by Cătălin George Feștilă
I used this tutorial to build the Krita from sources: https://docs.krita.org/en/untranslatable_pages/building_krita.html#prepar....
This is the result of the rpmlint tool:
rpmlint krita.spec ../SRPMS/krita* ../RPMS/*/krita*
(none): E: no installed packages by name ../SRPMS/krita*
(none): E: no installed packages by name ../RPMS/*/krita*
0 packages and 1 specfiles checked; 0 errors, 0 warnings.
the krita.spec has this content:
Name: krita
Version: 4.2.2
Release: 1%{?dist}
Summary: Krita software version 4.2.2
License: GPLv3+
URL: https://krita.org/
Source0: https://download.kde.org/stable/krita/4.4.2/krita-4.4.2.tar.gz
BuildRequires: bash
Requires: info
%description
Krita software version 4.2.2
%prep
%autosetup
%build
cmake ../krita \
-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$HOME/kritadev/install \
-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug \
-DKRITA_DEVS=ON
%configure
%make_build
make
make install
%install
rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
%make_install
../install/bin/krita
%files
%license add-license-file-here
%doc add-docs-here
%changelog
* Sat Jan 23 2021 catafest <catafest(a)yahoo.com>
Any idea what is wrong ?
1 year, 3 months
