White-Box PC Makers Pre-Install Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop
White-Box PC Makers Pre-Install Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop Novell has announced it has signed agreements with four white-box PC manufacturers who will globally distribute PCs pre-loaded with SUSE® Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 from Novell®. European manufacturers ETegro Technologies, MAXDATA and Transtec along with R Cubed Technologies in the United States will sell notebooks and/or desktop computers with SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 already installed, giving customers around the world simplified access to a complete desktop computing solution that dramatically reduces costs, improves end-user security and increases workforce productivity. http://www.novell.com/news/press/item.jsp?id=1173 -- MickySoft, the ultimate corporate parasite.
At 02:53 AM 11/1/2006 -0500, Fred A. Miller wrote:
Content-Disposition: inline
White-Box PC Makers Pre-Install Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop
Novell has announced it has signed agreements with four white-box PC manufacturers who will globally distribute PCs pre-loaded with SUSE® Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 from Novell®. European manufacturers ETegro Technologies, MAXDATA and Transtec along with R Cubed Technologies in the United States will sell notebooks and/or desktop computers with SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 already installed, giving customers around the world simplified access to a complete desktop computing solution that dramatically reduces costs, improves end-user security and increases workforce productivity.
This causes a javalang NullPointerException, along with a list of stuff that doesn't work. (I'm not looking at it in Linux-- maybe SuSE can read it.) Until I get the printer to work in Linux, I'll stay here, for the most part. --doug
Doug McGarrett wrote:
This causes a javalang NullPointerException, along with a list of stuff that doesn't work. (I'm not looking at it in Linux-- maybe SuSE can read it.)
Yep, works fine here.
Until I get the printer to work in Linux, I'll stay here, for the most part.
Printers can occasionally be a little tricky, but they do generally work quite well. We do all our printing over CUPS. Per Jessen, Zurich -- http://www.spamchek.com/ - managed email security. Starting at SFr5/month/user.
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2006-11-01 at 12:32 +0100, Per Jessen wrote:
Printers can occasionally be a little tricky, but they do generally work quite well. We do all our printing over CUPS.
I use cups together with the proprietary turboprint driver in order to get good quality from my canon bjc 4000. It is not expensive and works well, so it is a solution for some of those recalcitrant printers. Of course, next printer I buy will work in Linux straight away, but that printer predates my linux times. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFFSJTJtTMYHG2NR9URAvzZAJ9SFBsCK1UqBQoe2ykZtT5Gw4AK1wCeJSqt YOIUfkzN6E3GDyMuUSeDOo8= =2dnG -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 13:36 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1
The Wednesday 2006-11-01 at 12:32 +0100, Per Jessen wrote:
Printers can occasionally be a little tricky, but they do generally work quite well. We do all our printing over CUPS.
I use cups together with the proprietary turboprint driver in order to get good quality from my canon bjc 4000. It is not expensive and works well, so it is a solution for some of those recalcitrant printers. Of course, next printer I buy will work in Linux straight away, but that printer predates my linux times.
I thought that the drivers for Canon' BJC-4*00 series were available. I have used them for both the 4300 and the 4400, which work, after tweaking the settings for paper size, and contrast.
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2006-11-01 at 19:35 -0500, Mike McMullin wrote:
On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 13:36 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:
I use cups together with the proprietary turboprint driver in order to get good quality from my canon bjc 4000. It is not expensive and works well, so it is a solution for some of those recalcitrant printers. Of course, next printer I buy will work in Linux straight away, but that printer predates my linux times.
I thought that the drivers for Canon' BJC-4*00 series were available. I have used them for both the 4300 and the 4400, which work, after tweaking the settings for paper size, and contrast.
Yes, they work. But the results I got with my 4000 were prety bad and I was unable to get it to work well enough: I had to boot windows to get good prints. I wrote here (thread: Horrible print quality, Jul 2004), but finally I gave up and paid. I think I have somewhere a scanned sample print to show what I got that I could email you if you are interested (300K). It seems like a broken dithering algorithm. Perhaps the 4200 and up do work, dunno. My 4000 didn't. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFFSUP1tTMYHG2NR9URAu9NAJ4uzW8hcZfb27VYaZo2ILF7qnoj2ACcCIiX ttLrzSps2V+Ar1Xb5E0irkw= =fI4J -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 02:03 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1
The Wednesday 2006-11-01 at 19:35 -0500, Mike McMullin wrote:
On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 13:36 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:
I use cups together with the proprietary turboprint driver in order to get good quality from my canon bjc 4000. It is not expensive and works well, so it is a solution for some of those recalcitrant printers. Of course, next printer I buy will work in Linux straight away, but that printer predates my linux times.
I thought that the drivers for Canon' BJC-4*00 series were available. I have used them for both the 4300 and the 4400, which work, after tweaking the settings for paper size, and contrast.
Yes, they work. But the results I got with my 4000 were prety bad and I was unable to get it to work well enough: I had to boot windows to get good prints. I wrote here (thread: Horrible print quality, Jul 2004), but finally I gave up and paid.
I think I have somewhere a scanned sample print to show what I got that I could email you if you are interested (300K). It seems like a broken dithering algorithm.
Perhaps the 4200 and up do work, dunno. My 4000 didn't.
If I get the time and energy, I'll have a look into the PPD file, which I think is basically the same for the 4000 and the 4300/4400. I've been using a 4300 for a good five years and the 4400 for a good three years +/-.
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2006-11-01 at 20:20 -0500, Mike McMullin wrote:
If I get the time and energy, I'll have a look into the PPD file, which I think is basically the same for the 4000 and the 4300/4400. I've been using a 4300 for a good five years and the 4400 for a good three years +/-.
I don't know if it is a ppd issue. I'd have to load up the scanned page to somewhere, so that you could better judge what the problem is. It is really difficult to put it into words. I'll try. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFFSfAPtTMYHG2NR9URAuw8AJ49wzXtmKwGrtOuyeGMBzXBnAyrqwCfTTba OS6bV7ywX+GZtaLGGPTndbY= =+Hro -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
At 02:18 PM 11/2/2006 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1
The Wednesday 2006-11-01 at 20:20 -0500, Mike McMullin wrote:
If I get the time and energy, I'll have a look into the PPD file, which I think is basically the same for the 4000 and the 4300/4400. I've been using a 4300 for a good five years and the 4400 for a good three years +/-.
I don't know if it is a ppd issue. I'd have to load up the scanned page to somewhere, so that you could better judge what the problem is. It is really difficult to put it into words. I'll try.
- -- Cheers, Carlos E. R.
Thanx for your interest, Carlos. I may be making some progress. I reinstalled the RPM from Brother, and then plugged in the USB connector, and the lights flashed on the printer, so it is probably on line, altho it would not print from OO. The print command dialog box identified a "default printer" and I think it should show the Brother. I can't seem to find the printer setup routine in KDE, altho I found it by accident a couple of days ago. Is there somewhere I can download a picture of the upside-down "tree" that you get in the menu? Then maybe I could find what I'm looking for.
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2006-11-02 at 16:31 -0500, Doug McGarrett wrote:
Thanx for your interest, Carlos. I may be making some progress. I reinstalled the RPM from Brother, and then plugged in the USB connector, and the lights flashed on the printer, so it is probably on line, altho it would not print from OO. The print command dialog box identified a "default printer" and I think it should show the Brother. I can't seem to find the printer setup routine in KDE, altho I found it by accident a couple of days ago.
Try to make it print the demo page from cups or yast first. OO comes later. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFFSpNLtTMYHG2NR9URAvAyAJ9trsUb69xxpbFk/c7BA1NROdzOOQCeNAsP YMIfJ36dN3kP6DhM1jDVBUA= =vF8I -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
At 02:03 AM 11/2/2006 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1
The Wednesday 2006-11-01 at 19:35 -0500, Mike McMullin wrote:
On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 13:36 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:
I use cups together with the proprietary turboprint driver in order to
get
good quality from my canon bjc 4000. It is not expensive and works well, so it is a solution for some of those recalcitrant printers. Of course, next printer I buy will work in Linux straight away, but that printer predates my linux times.
I thought that the drivers for Canon' BJC-4*00 series were available. I have used them for both the 4300 and the 4400, which work, after tweaking the settings for paper size, and contrast.
Yes, they work. But the results I got with my 4000 were prety bad and I was unable to get it to work well enough: I had to boot windows to get good prints. I wrote here (thread: Horrible print quality, Jul 2004), but finally I gave up and paid.
I think I have somewhere a scanned sample print to show what I got that I could email you if you are interested (300K). It seems like a broken dithering algorithm.
Perhaps the 4200 and up do work, dunno. My 4000 didn't.
- -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. Hello, folks--
I was the one who started this thread, writing about the Brother HL-2040. It seems that it is now "recognised," but 9.3 thinks it is a CD drive! I know there is a configuration routine, somewhere in the matrix, but I only found it once, and can't seem to get back there. Please advise! (I'm running it on USB--my first and only experience of USB in any OS. But the II indicated that there would be a very simple install using USB, so I did it.) How do I tell Suse 9.3 that what it thinks is a CD, is really a printer? Is there somewhere a printed copy of the complete matrix of the things you get when you do a "This (was 'My') Computer" or a SUSE Green Ball from the bottom left? Windoz is no better, but really no worse. Finding configurations, or setups, is just a new version of that old CPM routine, that started: "You are in front of a small shed. When you go inside, you find a stairway leading down into the ground. At the bottom are a whole lot of twisty little tunnels." Or something like that. (Shows my age, I suppose.) I think it was called "Wolfenstein." --doug --doug
On Wednesday 01 November 2006 01:32, Per Jessen wrote:
Doug McGarrett wrote:
This causes a javalang NullPointerException, along with a list of stuff that doesn't work. (I'm not looking at it in Linux-- maybe SuSE can read it.)
Yep, works fine here. Not here.
Until I get the printer to work in Linux, I'll stay here, for the most part.
Printers can occasionally be a little tricky, but they do generally work quite well. We do all our printing over CUPS.
Per Jessen, Zurich
-- http://www.spamchek.com/ - managed email security. Starting at SFr5/month/user.
At 12:32 PM 11/1/2006 +0100, Per Jessen wrote:
Doug McGarrett wrote:
This causes a javalang NullPointerException, along with a list of stuff that doesn't work. (I'm not looking at it in Linux-- maybe SuSE can read it.)
Yep, works fine here.
You're right, it works fine in Suse 9.3.
Until I get the printer to work in Linux, I'll stay here, for the most part.
Printers can occasionally be a little tricky, but they do generally work quite well. We do all our printing over CUPS.
This is a low-end Brother Laser (HL-2040). I thought I had installed it according the manufacturer's directions as an LPR device--they don't have a cups driver at present--but so far, no joy. And I haven't found a mfr. phone number, as yet. Suse works fine with an HP Laserjet, but I have that connected to the other (this) computer. --doug
On Wednesday 01 November 2006 21:20, Doug McGarrett wrote:
This is a low-end Brother Laser (HL-2040). I thought I had installed it according the manufacturer's directions as an LPR device--they don't have a cups driver at present--but so far, no joy. And I haven't found a mfr. phone number, as yet.
Try using one of the other brother drivers. I have an HL2070n that I use the 1270 driver for and it works OK. Mike -- Powered by SuSE 10.0 Kernel 2.6.13 X86_64 KDE 3.4 Kmail 1.8 9:25pm up 16 days 4:07, 4 users, load average: 2.28, 2.21, 2.18
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2006-11-01 at 03:08 -0500, Doug McGarrett wrote:
This causes a javalang NullPointerException, along with a list of stuff that doesn't work. (I'm not looking at it in Linux-- maybe SuSE can read it.) Until I get the printer to work in Linux, I'll stay here, for the most part.
It works fine in firefox, suse 10.1 - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFFSIoAtTMYHG2NR9URAuEJAJ4xkKSTZAg3MjDPUkZE9Bf7d4rjxwCgil3d O1fAVQQkVZS0I5Tc7PxtPRM= =CAx7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
White-Box PC Makers Pre-Install Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop
Novell has announced it has signed agreements with four white-box PC manufacturers who will globally distribute PCs pre-loaded with SUSE® Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 from Novell®. European manufacturers ETegro Technologies, MAXDATA and Transtec along with R Cubed Technologies in the United States will sell notebooks and/or desktop computers with SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 already installed, giving customers around the world simplified access to a complete desktop computing solution that dramatically reduces costs, improves end-user security and increases workforce productivity.
http://www.novell.com/news/press/item.jsp?id=1173
-- got the same status 500 report in both Firefox2 and Konqi from Kmail in Suse 10.0 standard desktop... what seems to be a list of java exceptions
into electronic streams flowing thru the cosmos On Wednesday 01 November 2006 2:53 am, Fred A. Miller wrote: the few lines of which I quote here ..
rg.apache.jasper.JasperException at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:207) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:240) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:187) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:809) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:200) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:146) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:209)
Dunno where to send the error message so.. Hope some Novell worker bee notices our messages and maybe fixors this ? ( before I send the link to customers ;) ) -- j You wrote a note with chalk on my door. A message I'd known long before: On any given day, you'll find me gone
jfweber@gilweber.com wrote:
got the same status 500 report in both Firefox2 and Konqi from Kmail in Suse 10.0 standard desktop... what seems to be a list of java exceptions the few lines of which I quote here ..
rg.apache.jasper.JasperException
at
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:207)
at
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:240)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:187) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:809) at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:200)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:146)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:209)
Dunno where to send the error message so.. Hope some Novell worker bee notices our messages and maybe fixors this ? ( before I send the link to customers ;) )
Works fine, here. Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060911 SUSE/1.5.0.7-1.5 running in SuSE 10.1 -- ED --
On Tue, October 31, 2006 11:53 pm, Fred A. Miller wrote:
White-Box PC Makers Pre-Install Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop
Novell has announced it has signed agreements with four white-box PC manufacturers who will globally distribute PCs pre-loaded with SUSE® Linux
That's a good first step. Getting the WhiteBox peeps to stop bending over for Bill is a tough thing to do. I'll keep this posting and be sure to forward my business to them, if possible.
MickySoft, the ultimate corporate parasite.
lol! -- Kai Ponte www.perfectreign.com || www.4thedadz.com remember - a turn signal is a statement, not a request
On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 10:29:49AM -0800, PerfectReign wrote:
On Tue, October 31, 2006 11:53 pm, Fred A. Miller wrote:
White-Box PC Makers Pre-Install Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop
Novell has announced it has signed agreements with four white-box PC manufacturers who will globally distribute PCs pre-loaded with SUSE® Linux
That's a good first step. Getting the WhiteBox peeps to stop bending over for Bill is a tough thing to do.
Well, who's bending to whom? "(AP) SAN FRANCISCO Longtime software antagonists Microsoft Corp. and Novell Inc. have reached a technological truce that promises to smooth the way the still-dominant Windows operating system and the increasingly popular open-source Linux system work together." http://cbs5.com/technology/local_story_306182202.html -Kastus
participants (11)
-
Carlos E. R. -
Doug McGarrett -
Ed McCanless -
Fred A. Miller -
jfweber＠gilweber.com -
Kastus -
Mike -
Mike McMullin -
Per Jessen -
PerfectReign -
Susemail