Hoi Dartelaar,

Het is nogal een lijst die je daar opnoemt. Om te beginnen de scanner. Ik heb even op de website van het sane-project (project dat werkt aan het systeem om scanners op linux te laten werken) gekeken en helaas wordt de scanner niet ondersteunt aangezien het onbekend is welke usb chip er wordt gebruikt zie daarvoor het volgende adres:

http://www.sane-project.org/unsupported/canon-4200f.html

Dan de nokia N70. Er is daar al een discussie over gaande op het engelse nokia forum en het schijnt dat het mogelijk is (ook al staat de n70 niet op de pagina's van het gammu en gnokii project):

http://discussions.nokia.co.uk/discussions/board/message?board.id=connectivity&message.id=17&query.id=17671

Wat betreft de bluetooth adapter kan ik niet echt veel zeggen. Je zou eens kunnen proberen of je 'm tegenkomt in de dmesg output (open een terminal en voer het commando dmesg in gevolgd door een enter, het is daarbij handig om eerst de adapter aan te sluiten en dan direct daarna dmesg te draaien)

Als het goed is zou pardus dan de rest moeten doen. Via konqueror zou je dan (als je bluetooth werkt) aanwezige bluetooth devices moeten kunnen vinden door bluetooth:/ in de adresbalk in te typen.

De kodak easyshare printerdoc zou je denk ik even op moeten googlen. Gewoon iets als kodak easyshare linux.

Waarschijnlijk vind je dan wel mensen die met hetzelfde probleem zaten.

Groetjes,

Ben

Hey,

I assume that these cards are on an SLI mainboard or something like that since I couldn't find any (old) pci versions of these cards. According to some googling I did it should be possible to enable SLI on Linux as well, because it's supported since 2005. To do that read the following manual page:

http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/100.14.11/README/chapter-25.html

Since that probably explains it a lot better then I can (haven't got any experience with nvidia cards, nor there linux drivers).

Hope this works for you,

Regards,

Ben

Hey,

Firefox will be updated through pisi (pardus package management system) whenever there are updates. So to check if there are any updates just click the little cat icon in the system tray, then click the show upgradable packages button (don't know if this is the right translation, since I'm using the dutch version of pardus, it's the third button on the top of the screen). When no updates are available, you will have to wait untill the pardus dev's add the new version to the updates repository (most of the time this happens quite fast). If there are updates just click the select all packages link in the package list part of the window and then click the upgrade packages button.

Regards,

Ben

Hey,

Thanks for the reply. I personally also like PHP5 better then PHP4. The problem I'm currently having are with the xslt_create and xslt_process functions. These don't exist anymore in PHP5 and are replaced by the  SimpleXML package. The only problem I have is that my freehost is still using PHP4. They have tried using PHP5 in the past, but ran into trouble with that and decided they would run php4 again.  So I think I will just modify my code a bit, so that it will look at the PHP version and then executes the proper piece of code.

Regards,

Ben

ps. what weblanguage would you suggest then instead of php (just a language not a complete development platform like rails or turbogears). And where can I find some documentation for that language aimed at webdesign.

Hey all,

I'm currently working on a personal website which I'm writing in PHP. But I'm having some problems testing the website on my own localhost. The problem is that my host only supports php4 and pardus only has a package for php5. Since the code for using xml in php4 and 5 differs, I would like to know if it's possible to install php4 on pardus too, since I couldn't find it in the repositories.

Regards,

Ben

Hey everyone,

I was wondering when Scribus 1.3.4 will be in the repositories. It's released a few days ago (30th of may) but it contains a lot of new features that are very useful. Same question for kde 3.5.7.

Regards,

Ben

Hey,

You could probably install it, although it would probably be better to wait for the pardus devs to add the new kde packages to the repositories. The reason I would advise you to wait is because the packages on the kde ftp contain the complete desktop environment. When those are installed You will probably also get kde packages you are currently not using. When the packages are in the pardus repository, the package manager will only update those packages that are allready installed and make sure that you don't get the software you don't need (read: the ones that weren't installed either before you upgraded).

Since I'm not a pardus-developer I would also like to know when the packages will be made available as an update (or through some other repository). Since you can't just use the kde servers because they don't have an index.xml.bz2 (or something similar).

Regards,

Ben

Hey,

I do have a webcam and it once worked on linux, but since my pardus install I haven't set it up yet. It's a logitech quickcam messenger. I based my decision to buy this webcam on some of the comments made on this blogpost:

http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/2006/06/penguin_eyes_1.html

I hope it will also help you to make a choice, just as it helped me,

Regards,

Ben

Hey willem,

Today I happened to read a blogpost on the linux audio jungle. I found it on the blog of one of the adobe linux flashplayer developers. It's located here:

http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/2007/05/welcome_to_the_jungle.html

It also includes an image that could probably clear things up a bit (at least when you want to know where jack fits in the linux audio structure). If you just want to know more about jack itself have a look at their website:

http://jackaudio.org/

Regards,

Ben

Hey Joske,

It's possible to install anjuta using the emerge command. Just make sure you have the contrib repository enabled. Then just type:


That should work,

Regards,

Ben

ps. If it doesn't work try this command:

Hey,

it worked. But since the above is only a temporary solution I did some more research on how to fix the problem permanently. For pardus it turned out I had to edit the Xsession file for KDE. It's located here:

/usr/kde/3.5/share/config/kdm/Xsession

There I put the command just before the switch statement:

Hey Willem,

The Menu's in KDE as well as in Gnome have no physical folder structure. They are defined in xml files. The xml file for the pardus kde menu is located in: $HOME_DIR/.config/menus

where home dir is the user account directory located in /home

Regards,

Ben

Hey everyone,

I'm having a small problem with my pardus install. I'm currently using pardus on my laptop (dell inspiron 6400) and everytime I hit a key that has no function in a particular program the sysbell goes off. This morning I had a test and I happened to push the down arrow two times in maple. It went off and it wasn't very much appreciated. So my question is how can I turn off the sysbell without recompiling the whole kernel. Something I allready know is that the system bell is handled by the pcspkr option in the kernel (pardus has no module for that as far as I know).

Regards,

Ben

I've just upgraded my own pardus installation and I'm having almost the same problem as you. There's only one minor difference; I do get errors on the commandline:


Maybe someone else knows how to solve these,

Regards,

Ben

UPDATE: Have just rebooted and I am now in exactly the same situation as you are.

Hey,

Usually this is done by using sane. That's the general system used to configure scanners. It's like what CUPS does for printers, SANE does for scanners.

I did a search on their site and here are the results:
http://www.sane-project.org/cgi-bin/driver.pl?manu=Lexmark&model=&bus=any&v=&p=

As you can see the 3350 is not being returned. So either this device is quite recent and not yet in the list, or it is unsupported.

Regards,

Ben

ps. You could try searching a bit more with google and see if other got it working with a driver for some other device. Although I'm very sure if that method also works for scanners (I've tried it with printers and there it does work).