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Re: HP Laserjet P1006 - no errors, no output

Ed Greshko — 2012-05-26T09:45:49


Of course the HP process, either hp-setup or hp-plugin, should tell you where/what it
is downloading and where these files are being placed.  I had hoped that would have
been logged in /var/log/hp but it isn't.   Hence my smiley face....

The files being added aren't PPD files, FWIW.

For the curious, they can download http://hplip.sf.net/plugin.conf and then determine
which plugin archive needs to be downloaded based on the version of hplip installed. 
In the 3.12.2 they would then need to download
http://www.openprinting.org/download/printdriver/auxfiles/HP/plugins/hplip-3.12.2-plugin.run

You can then look in the begining of that file to determine you can execute it with
--list and have it return the list of files being added to your system.

Using that bit of information you can find the files added....with a little bit of
detective work.

Re: The death of Hibernate?

Heinz Diehl — 2012-05-26T09:41:15

On 26.05.2012, Reindl Harald wrote: 


Millions of small notebooks with 1 GB RAM have been sold,
because they are small, able to run many hours solely on batteri,
and because a lot of people don't have the money to buy something more
expensive. In other words: they are quite common, and most of them run
Linux just fine.
   

Why do you think it's wrong? There's more than just "one world", it
depends entirely on what you want to do with your machine. Maybe, the "crazy
guy above" is not as crazy as you claim he is:

"My point is that decreasing the tendency of the kernel to swap stuff
out is wrong. You really don't want hundreds of megabytes of BloatyApp's
untouched memory floating about in the machine.  Get it out on the
disk, use the memory for something useful." (Andrew Morton)

Re: HP Laserjet P1006 - no errors, no output

Frantisek Hanzlik — 2012-05-26T08:59:27

...
...
# whereis hp-setup
hp-setup: /usr/bin/hp-setup
# rpm -qf /usr/bin/hp-setup
hplip-3.12.2-4.fc16.i686
# rpm -qi hplip|grep -i licens
License     : GPLv2+ and MIT

Although PPD files may be proprietary, hplip itself isn't.
And despite of it, there IMO should be traceable what in filesystem
was changed. Probably not only in GPL OSes.

Re: The death of Hibernate?

Reindl Harald — 2012-05-26T08:20:11


Am 26.05.2012 07:45, schrieb Joel Rees:

why in the world do you wake up this thread after weeks again?
hibernate does not inerest me but i can not see people argumentating t
echnically wrong

it does not change anything if yopu are swap out all your
applications because you will ALWYAS have 100% RAM used
on any unix-like system

and even if - machines with 1 GB RAM are loughable
these days since i remember that a yum-upgrade was
killed with a OOM om a virtual machine witout GUI

braindead developers cosuming ressources for nothing
this is not new remember in 2003 where i had  aa machine
with 192 MB RAM running Win2000, Photoshop, CorelDrwaw
and VMware with a linux-guest and these days a f**ing
updater needs much more
__________________________________

the argumentation of the crazy guy above was that RAm is
better used for caching as for unused running applications
which is completly wrong

where in the world is the benefit having applications swapped
out for chaching the blocks of a 2 GB vieo file moved

Re: Cannot create MP3 with UTF-16LE tags

Ian Pilcher — 2012-05-26T05:58:49

New, working script attached for posterity.

Re: The death of Hibernate?

Joel Rees — 2012-05-26T05:45:29

I'd like to see your calculations, although I got a clue from your
comment about slow disks.


There is a reason for that, other than your harping about how booting
fits your needs better than suspending or hibernating.


Well, on my lenovo S100 ideapaddy or whatever this piece of junk is
called, I have problems getting a good session restore on reboot. It
can wedge xfce4 so that I have to use some workaround to get a shell
and use the --replace option. Bugs. Cheap hardware that I could
actually buy, instead of dream about, to replace the iBook that died
permanently a bit before Christmas.

But, as far as which is faster, I have 1G of RAM. I don't run database
servers or web servers on it. Go ahead, guess or calculate.

I mostly use it on the train for e-mail, text editing, and some
translation work that I'm hoping will stretch the paycheck through the
last week of the month before payday. Sometimes I use it at work to do
things that are not allowed on the computers at work. (Yeah, "tacit"
permission that c

Re: HP Laserjet P1006 - no errors, no output

Ed Greshko — 2012-05-26T04:53:34

Good, your printer is working...


Hey, it is proprietary so why should they tell you?  :-)

But, if you go to /usr/share/hplip and find all the files that have a date of "today"
you'll probably find all the pieces.  One of the pieces should be
/usr/share/hplip/data/plugins/license.txt.

And much of the other files are in /usr/share/hplip/data/firmware

Cannot create MP3 with UTF-16LE tags

Ian Pilcher — 2012-05-26T04:32:37

My script for creating MP3 files from FLAC files has broken in Fedora
17.  Specifically, tags with accented characters are getting truncated
when I try to write them as UTF-16LE (which seems to be what most
players expect).  The script, which I am attaching, worked fine when I
last used it in January back in January (presumably on Fedora 16).

Here is an example of what I'm seeing:

[pilcher< at >ian music]$ metaflac --show-tag=title track05.flac
title=Lento, rápido

[pilcher< at >ian music]$ flac2mp3 track05.{flac,mp3}

flac 1.2.1, Copyright (C) 2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006,2007  Josh
Coalson
flac comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.  This is free software, and you are
welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.  Type `flac' for
details.

track05.flac: done
LAME 3.99.5 64bits (http://lame.sf.net)
polyphase lowpass filter disabled
Encoding <stdin> to track05.mp3
Encoding as 44.1 kHz j-stereo MPEG-1 Layer III VBR(q=0)

[pilcher< at >ian music]$ id3v2 -l track05.mp3
id3v2 tag info for track05.mp3:
TSSE (Softwar

Re: HP Laserjet P1006 - no errors, no output

Sam Varshavchik — 2012-05-26T04:32:29


Heh. I already have hplip installed. But when I plugged in the P1006 for the  
first time, CUPS then proceeded and installed the foo2xqx and foo2zjs RPMS  
for me, together with their dependencies from rpmfusion. It found these RPMS  
in rpmfusion. I actually thought that this was pretty impressive, how it  
autoinstalled the right RPMs it wanted.

http://foo2xqx.rkkda.com/ claims that the foo2zjs/foo2xqx driver, that I got  
pulled in from rpmfusion, is broken. That's probably my answer.

Just for giggles, I ran hp-setup. It told me that I needed some firmware,  
then proceeded and downloaded it, without disclosing any more details, and  
that made the printer wake up, and make itself useful. Splendid.

Now, if hp-setup could only tell me what it downloaded, and where it dumped  
whatever it loaded on the filesystem…

Re: HP Laserjet P1006 - no errors, no output

Ed Greshko — 2012-05-26T04:09:23

And even the "proprietary" plugin.....  :-)

Re: HP Laserjet P1006 - no errors, no output

Ed Greshko — 2012-05-26T04:06:29

OK....  That was simple....

All you need to do his have all the proper hplip and hpijs packages installed and
then simply run "hp-plugin" and it will download and install that propriety plugin.

Re: HP Laserjet P1006 - no errors, no output

Ed Greshko — 2012-05-26T03:53:38

Also see....

http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/models/laserjet/hp_laserjet_p1006.html

???

Re: HP Laserjet P1006 - no errors, no output

Ed Greshko — 2012-05-26T03:50:35

Maybe a silly question, but do you have the hplip packages installed?

I don't have that printer....but when I go to http://localhost:631/ and go through
the process to modify my printer one of the select-able models is....

HP LaserJet p1006, hpijs, 3.12.2, requires proprietary plugin (en)

Don't know what the plugin may be....but maybe giving that a try?

HP Laserjet P1006 - no errors, no output

Sam Varshavchik — 2012-05-26T03:01:55

Somebody didn't need this printer, I grabbed it, and plugged it in.

Fedora recognized it, and installed a Foomatic driver for it.

When I attempt to print a test page, everything "seems" to work on the  
software side. A job shows up in a print queue, for a few seconds, then  
Fedora tells me that the job printed succesfully, and the job disappears off  
the queue.

But the printer stays absolutely silent.

I see absolutely nothing useful in /var/log/cups. access_log claims success:

localhost - root [25/May/2012:22:45:11 -0400] "POST /admin/ HTTP/1.1" 200  
24757 CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer successful-ok
localhost - - [25/May/2012:22:45:16 -0400] "POST /printers/HP-LaserJet-P1006  
HTTP/1.1" 200 458 Print-Job successful-ok

Despite what anything says here, the printer just sleeps, doing nothing. It  
never shows any indication that it's getting a print job.

So, where do I go from here? Hate to throw this printer away, but  
Fedora/CUPS is refusing to cooperate.

Re: how to capture flash, etc

suvayu ali — 2012-05-25T21:35:09

I use this shell function to play it with mplayer:

function play_flash() {
    for idx in $(pgrep -u $USER -f 'flashplayer'; pgrep -u $USER midori); do
echo "Browser:" $(egrep 'Name:' /proc/${idx}/status| cut -f 2) "PID:" $idx
echo -n "        FDs:"

for fd in $(lsof -p $idx -F fn|egrep --text -B1 '/tmp/Flash'| egrep '^f'); do
    echo -n "  ${fd:1}"
done
echo
echo
    done

    echo "Select browser (by PID) and file descriptor (space separated)"
    read -p ': ' PID FD
    echo
    if [[ ! -z ${PID} ]]; then
inhibit-xscreensaver &> /dev/null &
declare sspid=$!
mplayer -ontop "$< at >" /proc/${PID}/fd/${FD}
kill $sspid && wait
    fi
    unset idx fd
}

This works for Firefox, Google Chrome and Midori. The OP can adapt it
to copy instead of play.

Re: how to capture flash, etc

Michael Cronenworth — 2012-05-25T20:18:14

Adobe obfuscated the /tmp file method several updates ago. The flash
plugin still creates a /tmp file, but it immediately removes the file
link causing any "ls /tmp" calls to not see a file. You can still get
the file data through /proc.

$ ps -ef | grep plugin
# copy the PID of flash ($PID)
$ ls -l /proc/$PID/fd
# find the /tmp/flashXXXXXX file symlink ($FD)
$ cp -p /proc/$PID/fd/$FD /home/foo/flash.flv

Re: how to capture flash, etc

Joe Zeff — 2012-05-25T19:16:46

Have you tried wget?

how to capture flash, etc

Mike Wright — 2012-05-25T19:04:07

Hi all,

Time was all I had to do to capture a video stream was start one, pause 
it and wait while the stream accumulated into /tmp.  Once complete I 
could move it.  /tmp is now a deep tree with obfuscated names making 
such endeavors nigh on impossible.

I've feel like I've been Gnomed.  Is this the new direction?  Look, 
don't touch?

Does anybody know how to capture a stream now or has that ability also 
been taken away?

TIA,
Mike Wright

Re: Problem with Emacs

suvayu ali — 2012-05-25T11:57:06

Hi Steven,

On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 11:34 PM, Steven Ulrick <meow8282< at >gmail.com> wrote:

I think this is still worth reporting on the Emacs bug tracker. I
would encourage you to report the problem and let the developers
decide if its worthy of a bugfix.

Thanks,

Request for Sprint HTC phone suggestions

Max Pyziur — 2012-05-25T10:26:00

Greetings,

It's time to upgrade my phone.

For the last three years, I've had a Palm Centro; syncing of contacts, 
calender, and notes has been done via jpilot.

I would appreciate suggestions as to which of the Sprint HTC EVO phones 
works with Fedora and which PIM to use to sync.

Much thanks.


Max Pyziur
pyz< at >brama.com

Re: wifi bit rate

Ed Greshko — 2012-05-25T10:18:59

OK.....