[Klug-general] Mandriva 2005 updates

[Dan Attwood]

Scanners can be a bit of a pain, mine works fine apart from the slide
scanner function.

I would suggest though that you consider buying a new usb scanner -
for the sake of C£80 you can then be running the newest version of
mandriva with all the benefits of a newer kde, newer packages, speed,
security etc. I can't vouch for 2007 but 2006 was heaps faster than
2005LE

Dan

On 11/09/06, Michael. E. Rentell <michael.rentell at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> Mike,
>
> I'm not surprised there were dozens of updates - that source is for
> Mandriva 2006, and you were running 2005LE, so you are now running a
> hybrid of 2006 and 2005LE, so some things might not work properly.
>
> I suggest you go into MCC and delete all the sources for 2005LE, and
> then go to http://mandrivausers.org/easyurpmi/ and get a complete set of
> urpmi sources for 2006, then from a root terminal do
>
> urpmi.update -caf && urpmi --auto-select
>
> That will fully upgrade you to 2006.
>
> --
> Regards
> Margot
>
>
> Thanks for the advice Margot. It has led me to investigate the console
> use of urpmi which I was uncertain of previously and now I know a bit
> more about Linux. All to the good.
>
> What I am trying to avoid is upgrading any of my M2005 core features to
> M2006. For some reason which I am completely unable to fathom, I cannot
> make 2006 see my SCSI scanner. Mandriva 2005LE is happy to find it and
> to network it with saned and I don't want to lose that facility.  I
> actually use Linux in a productive office environment and the scanner is
> necessary.
>
> So a straight upgrade to 2006 is something I'm trying to avoid. What I
> was hoping to do was to find the upgrade files for 2005 and use those
> but all the Mandrake/Mandriva ftp sites that I've investigated although
> admittedly only in UK (WarwickU is horribly slow) and The Netherlands
> (satisfyingly fast) seem to have withdrawn their 2005 upgrades. In their
> space is a short readme.txt saying that they have been transferred to
> the 'old' tree. But they haven't and that is a major disappointment.
>
> Why would they want to do that? They have got all the older upgrades
> back to ver 7 in the old tree except 2005.
>
> I think I shall now just wait until 2007 comes along on the cover of
> Linux Format (should be next month) and try it as an upgrade. If it
> screws up my scanner access I shall be back to square one. I wish I
> could work out why the scanner doesn't work, I've tried all the obvious
> 'permissions problem' in both root and user. sane-find-scanner detects
> the scanner and says it is at /dev/sg0 but if I then try to use it with
> scanimage -L or Kooka nothing happens and when I run sane-find-scanner
> again it isn't there. Baffling.
>
> I appreciate the advice - very many thanks.
>
> MikeR
> in Folkestone
>
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