[Klug-general] [Fwd: Using Linux (Fedora Core 1)]

[Peter]

Thanks for your help everyone. I understood at least 50% of it all but 
it all sounded helpful.

The camera is fine. It boiled down to having written dev/sda in the 
fstab file instead of dev/sda1 (that was a bit I did understand).

1 down - two to go

Again, thanks for your help,
Peter.

Karl Lattimer wrote:

>Your camera sounds like usb-storage, on FC1/2/3 this is a module as is
>vfat so you should just have to do a 
>
>modprobe usb-storage and then try and figure out where the device is. I
>find my usb-storage devices on sda1 upto 4 normally. Then try and mount
>the device ala;
>
>mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera
>
>You should be aware that with udev (FC3, which is much easier) you now
>only see what you actually have on your system in /dev/ (which is nice).
>
>Mozilla should be fixable by installing the j2re rpm and mozilla-j2re (i
>can't remember off the top of my head the exact names, but they are
>available from dag wieers apt/yum repository, search google!)
>
>As far as your printer goes, you should remember to restart CUPS and
>turn the printer on (even if it is auto power on).
>
>Hope this helps.
>Karl,
>
>
>On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 17:39 +0000, Peter wrote:
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>>Hi Kevin,
>>
>>Thanks for getting back to me.
>>
>>    1 Printer - Yes, I'm using CUPS.
>>
>>    3 Camera - It's a Vivitar 3815 Vivicam. I assume it's pretty
>>    standard because it doesn't need drivers for anything above Windows
>>    98. I also spoke to their technical department. They don't deal with
>>    Linux but didn't think there should be problems.
>>
>>Regards, Peter.
>>
>>Kevin Groves wrote:
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>>    
>>
>>>>    1 Printer.
>>>>    I have a Lexmark Z13 printer (USB). Linux says it's properly
>>>>    installed but when I send something to be printed I get a message
>>>>    saying it was successful but the printer stays inactive.
>>>>
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>Are you using CUPS?
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>>>    2 Mozilla
>>>>    I've successfully installed Java onto my machine but I cannot get
>>>>    Mozilla to recognise the Java plug-ins.
>>>>
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>I've noticed this but not got around to fixing mine. I think it's 
>>>probably a library path or ownership kind of things. Most Linux 
>>>problems come down to that. ;-)
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>>>    3 Digital Camera.
>>>>    When I mount the camera I'm told Linux does not recognise the file
>>>>    system.
>>>>
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>USB? What model?
>>>
>>>Kev,
>>>
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