Re: Does anyone know how to configure a Brother MFC-J5720DW with cups?

2016-03-13 Thread David Wright
On Sun 13 Mar 2016 at 19:32:04 (+), Brian wrote: > On Sat 12 Mar 2016 at 23:43:27 -0600, David Wright wrote: > > > On Sat 12 Mar 2016 at 09:56:37 (+), Brian wrote: > > > > > The PDL of choice for AirPrint capable devices is PDF. A PDF document > > > sent to an Airprint capable printer is

Re: Iceweasel update error on Wheezy

2016-03-13 Thread sp113438
On Mon, 14 Mar 2016 03:46:13 +0100 sp113438 wrote: > On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 23:46:45 + > Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > I just got the following error after an update: > > > > W: Failed to fetch > > http://mozilla.debian.net/dists/wheezy-backports/Release: Unable to > > find expected entry 'icewease

Re: Iceweasel update error on Wheezy

2016-03-13 Thread sp113438
On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 23:46:45 + Lisi Reisz wrote: > I just got the following error after an update: > > W: Failed to fetch > http://mozilla.debian.net/dists/wheezy-backports/Release: Unable to > find expected entry 'iceweasel-release/binary-amd64/Packages' in > Release file (Wrong sources.lis

Re: Iceweasel update error on Wheezy

2016-03-13 Thread sp113438
On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 23:46:45 + Lisi Reisz wrote: > I just got the following error after an update: > > W: Failed to fetch > http://mozilla.debian.net/dists/wheezy-backports/Release: Unable to > find expected entry 'iceweasel-release/binary-amd64/Packages' in > Release file (Wrong sources.lis

Iceweasel update error on Wheezy

2016-03-13 Thread Lisi Reisz
I just got the following error after an update: W: Failed to fetch http://mozilla.debian.net/dists/wheezy-backports/Release: Unable to find expected entry 'iceweasel-release/binary-amd64/Packages' in Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file) It was OK yesterday. Here is the lin

Re: Does anyone know how to configure a Brother MFC-J5720DW with cups?

2016-03-13 Thread jdd
Le 13/03/2016 20:40, Brian a écrit : *Direct* PDF printing is usually indicated in the printer's literature. nothing is never sure. When it's so easy to try why don't? this airprint feature is surprising In what way? if it don't support pdf... but may be there is a pdf translator in t

Re: Need help salvaging what I can from major disaster

2016-03-13 Thread Kynn Jones
@Russ, @Pascal: thanks for your comments and suggestions. They are very helpful. kj

Re: Radeon trouble Jessie 8.3. [drm:radeon_pci_probe] *ERROR* with firmware-linux-nonfree installed

2016-03-13 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 04:31:51PM +, Trond Arild Ydersbond wrote: > I have got this working on the same machine with Wheezy 7.6 and Knoppixes up > to and including 7.6.1, but it seems that radeon_pci_probe refuses to > recognize the installed firmware. Have tried different settings, but dmes

Re: Radeon trouble Jessie 8.3. [drm:radeon_pci_probe] *ERROR* with firmware-linux-nonfree installed

2016-03-13 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 04:31:51PM +, Trond Arild Ydersbond wrote: > I have got this working on the same machine with Wheezy 7.6 and Knoppixes up > to and including 7.6.1, but it seems that radeon_pci_probe refuses to > recognize the installed firmware. Have tried different settings, but dmes

Re: Does anyone know how to configure a Brother MFC-J5720DW with cups?

2016-03-13 Thread Brian
On Sun 13 Mar 2016 at 20:21:45 +0100, jdd wrote: > Le 13/03/2016 20:12, David Wright a écrit : > > >As I said, you're in a different price bracket. Guessing by what I've > >seen, it's partly because PDF printing tends to come with lasers > >and ethernet, ie for office documents, not home photogra

Re: Does anyone know how to configure a Brother MFC-J5720DW with cups?

2016-03-13 Thread Brian
On Sat 12 Mar 2016 at 23:43:27 -0600, David Wright wrote: > On Sat 12 Mar 2016 at 09:56:37 (+), Brian wrote: > > > The PDL of choice for AirPrint capable devices is PDF. A PDF document > > sent to an Airprint capable printer is converted to BUL (the Brother > > Unknown Language) as it would b

Re: Does anyone know how to configure a Brother MFC-J5720DW with cups?

2016-03-13 Thread jdd
Le 13/03/2016 20:12, David Wright a écrit : As I said, you're in a different price bracket. Guessing by what I've seen, it's partly because PDF printing tends to come with lasers and ethernet, ie for office documents, not home photographs. but did you really try to send a pdf to your printer?

Re: Does anyone know how to configure a Brother MFC-J5720DW with cups?

2016-03-13 Thread David Wright
On Sun 13 Mar 2016 at 09:04:47 (+0100), jdd wrote: > Le 13/03/2016 05:34, David Wright a écrit : > > >Well, let's assume that most people buy their equipment rather than > >being given it for free. > > I also bought one for $25 (the two of them had already 200.000 > copies done :-) - but it's an

howTo use cabal-debian to install pandoc-include.cabal

2016-03-13 Thread Haines Brown
I've reached the limits of my ability. I installed cabal-debian. Then downloaded pandoc-include from github in order to enable pandoc to convert a .tex file with includes to Word. In the pandoc-include-master directory resulting from an unzip, there is a pandoc-include.cabal file. Directions say t

Re: Does anyone know how to configure a Brother MFC-J5720DW with cups?

2016-03-13 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 12 Mar 2016 22:34:41 -0600 David Wright wrote: ... > The HP5M is solely a printer which is fine as far as it goes, but now > I need to buy a scanner, and quite possibly a fax machine, as well. > AFAICT I'd have to use it through a parallel (or serial?) interface. > This laptop has neithe

Re: Scanning on Debian Jessie (kodakaio / sane issue)

2016-03-13 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 13 March 2016 15:02:45 New Linux wrote: > However, any GUI (like xsane/simplescan) that I installed either didn't > recognize the v1.0.23 SANE packages and/or reinstalled the v1.0.24 > packages. In my numerous attempts to get a compatible GUI working with > the 1.0.23 packages, I ended up

Re: Scanning on Debian Jessie (kodakaio / sane issue)

2016-03-13 Thread New Linux
( Original issue: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2016/03/msg00241.html ) Unfortunately I was not able to resolve this problem. After a week of troubleshooting, I've settled on some workarounds, which I'm posting below. Giving the limited information I've been able to find, I believe this

Re: Tails -- wheezy based good, jessie based bad

2016-03-13 Thread Adam Wilson
On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 13:02:54 +1100 Andrew McGlashan wrote: > Just reporting that I have a couple of older machines that both work > well with Tails 1.8.2 -- an old Thinkpad that used to run XP and an > old Macbook Pro 4,1 (early 2008). > > Both machines fail on Tails 2.x -- the Thinkpad gets fur

Re: Re: Radeon trouble Jessie 8.3. [drm:radeon_pci_probe] *ERROR* with firmware-linux-nonfree installed

2016-03-13 Thread Trond Arild Ydersbond
>Just a hunch but maybe you booted the wrong kernel, or the initrd for >some reason wasn't regenerated after the firmware was installed? Exactly right! When initrd was updated correctly, everything worked as advertised. (FYI, this is live-8.3.0 with persistence, booted by legacy grub.) Trond

Re: Inferior sound quality

2016-03-13 Thread Himanshu Shekhar
After making some random hits, I finally landed on Clementine. It is one of the best music players I've experienced so far and it gives me perfect feel of the beats after little change in settings. Thanks for support! Regards Himanshu Shekhar On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 12:47 PM, Johann Spies wrote

Re: iceweasel now firefox-esr?

2016-03-13 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Sun, 2016-03-13 at 19:53 +1000, Weaver wrote: > There's much more than a symlink involved. > The installation happened on two machines: on the laptop, it failed > to  > find the main bookmark menu, and as that was the first update, that > went  > west. I backed up the bookmarks file on the PC, b

Re: iceweasel now firefox-esr?

2016-03-13 Thread Weaver
On 2016-03-12 17:44, Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Sat, 2016-03-12 at 00:37 -0500, Dale Harris wrote: Huh, why is iceweasel installing firefox-esr now and not even putting in a sym. link from iceweasel to firefox? Iceweasel is no more, read the changelog.  Aside from an advisory a read in the gen

Re: Need help salvaging what I can from major disaster

2016-03-13 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Kynn Jones a écrit : > > It turns out that I backed up the hard disk (HD) to the external drive > (XD) twice. The first backup went well, as far as I can tell. I > spot-checked individual files, etc. Everything looked normal. > > This first backup would have sufficed, but after I had done it I

Re: Does anyone know how to configure a Brother MFC-J5720DW with cups?

2016-03-13 Thread jdd
Le 13/03/2016 05:34, David Wright a écrit : Well, let's assume that most people buy their equipment rather than being given it for free. I also bought one for $25 (the two of them had already 200.000 copies done :-) - but it's an obsolete machine now of course it was trash bin machines, mos