On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 09:33:43PM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > My GF installed a USB mouse, and her keyboard went away. > They work together with THE OTHER OS. IIRC (it's been > a while) using a debug startup allows us to get up to > a root login, and look around, but using ^D from there > makes the keyboard go away. I can't tell if this is > an X Window problem, or below that, or what. The current > work around is to use an old PS/2 style mouse. The symptoms > are just as if the keyboard were unplugged. There is no > response whatsoever.
Is this mouse plugged into the same troubling hub? > > My GF also can't mount a memory stick using a Dazzle > USB I/F through a hub. A regular disc (Western Digital) > mounts and runs fine on the same hub. When the Dazzle > is plugged directly into the USB port on the machine, > it can be mounted. This is extremely inconvenient, as > all the USB ports on this machine are in the back, > and it is inside an armoir. The workaround is to pull > the machine out of the armoir, and leave it hanging > out, and plug the Dazzle into the USB. This is something > I have to do, as she is mobility impaired (paraplegic). > Since I live several miles away, this is quite inconvenient. > Another work around is to use the same hub and Dazzle > I/F with Windows on a laptop, then e-mail herself using a dial- > up connection, to an account she can read with Debian. This > is slow, clumsy, and inconvenient as well. > Do you have enough USB ports on the rear of the box? What about a few USB straight extension cords instead of HUBs. > She can't associate multiple queues with a single printer, > but there is already another thread about that. There is > currently no work around, but there is hope that using the > CUPS I/F directly may work. > I've never tried CUPS. Partly because of all the troubles people seem to have. I've always had great luck with LPRng and apsfilter or LPRng and foomatic-printfilters (set up with foomatic-GUI if you like). The first option is easier if apsfilter had the driver for your printer. The second lets you use a cups printer ppd. LPRng does great with multiple queues. > So far, she's unable to get her printer to full functionality. > I kludged up a printer description which sorta works, but > not fully. It's an HP, but I don't at present recall the > exact model number. It is a combined Printer/FAX/Scanner. > So far, it just prints either in greyscale or color, depending > on how we've edited queue at the moment. We can't select different > print quality, color/greyscale, or any other options except by > editing the one queue associated with it. Using LPRng with multiple queues, one queue for each feature. > It is also supposed to be able to read and print camera memory sticks, > but that only works in stand-alone mode, with no way to get the info > from the printer to the computer. Supposedly, this works with THE > OTHER OS, though that is unverified. Anyway, at present it's running > with my kludgy edit of another printer description file, not one from > Debian, and just as a simple printer, it can't even do a realign. None > of the other functions are currently usable. > > Another issue which has never been posted: She installed more > memory. She had 512 MB RAM, and now has 1.5 Gig. Unfortunately, > Debian seems only to recognize just under 1.0 Gig. I haven't > looked on the web for a fix for that, so I haven't posted > here. Part of the reason I haven't gone searching for a > solution, is that her reaction to that was to purchase a copy > of Windows XP. > See your other answers re kernel options. Is she running Etch up-to-date? What CPU does this box have? Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
