Re: Scanner works!

2023-10-15 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2023-10-15 at 12:28 -0600, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 10/15/2023 12:05 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > >     Use 'sudo avahi-browse -a -t' to check that > >     printer, scanner etc. are all visible. Use > >     DNS-SD (Avahi) versions of drivers. > > If you don't need it very often, you're bes

Re: Scanner works!

2023-10-15 Thread Joe Zeff
On 10/15/2023 12:05 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: Use 'sudo avahi-browse -a -t' to check that printer, scanner etc. are all visible. Use DNS-SD (Avahi) versions of drivers. If you don't need it very often, you're best off making it into a shell script so that you don't need to wor

Re: Scanner works!

2023-10-15 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2023-10-15 at 11:02 -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > I found I have to wake the scanner up before trying to connect to it > over the network. I don't know if the scanner responds to the magic > wakeup packet. Very occasionally my Brother all-in-one needs to be prodded with an avahi command.

Re: Upgrading to Fedora 38: Misleading 'verify' instructions

2023-10-15 Thread Tim via users
On Sat, 2023-10-14 at 19:06 +0100, John Pilkington wrote: > On trying to verify the download, using > > https://fedoraproject.org/en/workstation/download/ > > I got a report that "17 lines are improperly formatted". As an example, the downloaded checksum file for one of the ISO files is this:

Re: Scanner works!

2023-10-15 Thread Joe Benson
I've had two Brother printers/scanners, currently a MFC-7820N, and never had any issues running them under Fedora. Brother Linux support has been great. I'm using Xsane for the scanner. On Sun, Oct 15, 2023 at 7:55 AM Tom Horsley wrote: > In the past I have had near infinite trouble getting scan

Re: Scanner works!

2023-10-15 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sun, Oct 15, 2023 at 9:55 AM Tom Horsley wrote: > > In the past I have had near infinite trouble getting scanners > compatible with linux, but I just replaced a dead Epson multi-function > device that I only ever used as a scanner with a Canoscan LIDE 300 > and was shocked and amazed when it ju

Upgrading to Fedora 38: more comments

2023-10-15 Thread John Pilkington
My recent posts were about 'just in case' precautions before a system upgrade. I now appear to have a working upgraded system. It wasn't trouble-free and I didn't use the live workstation download. The system uses the rpmfusion nvidia 470xx video drivers, which build modules locally via akmo

Scanner works!

2023-10-15 Thread Tom Horsley
In the past I have had near infinite trouble getting scanners compatible with linux, but I just replaced a dead Epson multi-function device that I only ever used as a scanner with a Canoscan LIDE 300 and was shocked and amazed when it just worked out of the box. P.S. The epson isn't quite as bad a

Re: Upgrading to Fedora 38: Misleading 'verify' instructions

2023-10-15 Thread George N. White III
On Sat, Oct 14, 2023 at 8:57 PM Dave Close wrote: > Barry Scott wrote: > > >What exactly did you do that got this error message? > >How can I reproduce this? > > To me, the first important question is, is the file actually defective > (17 improperly formatted lines) or is the message bogus? > Th

vnc/remmina

2023-10-15 Thread Patrick Dupre
Hello, I can connect to a remote machine (fedora 38) via vnc or remmina (ssh or vnc) but I just have black screen. Here is my ~/.vnc/xstartup #!/bin/sh unset SESSION_MANAGER unset DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS #exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc gnome-session --session=gnome-classic & I also tried both e

Re: Upgrading to Fedora 38: Misleading 'verify' instructions

2023-10-15 Thread John Pilkington
On 15/10/2023 01:23, Jonathan Billings wrote: On Oct 14, 2023, at 14:06, John Pilkington wrote: I have done several system upgrades in the past.  This time I thought I would take the suggested precautions and download the workstation .iso On trying to verify the download, using https://fe