[Klug-general] Mandriva 2005 updates

[Michael. E. Rentell]

Thanks for the comment Dan. My apologies for the delay in responding.

Unfortunately my budget won't stretch to junking a perfectly good 
scanner just because Mandriva can't get it right.
If anyone can suggest why Mandriva 2006 won't operate a standard Epson 
SCSI scanner when Mandrake 10.2 (in its Mandriva 2005LE guise) does 
quite happily and with the minimum of hassle, I would dearly love to 
know. I have tried RH C4, SUSE, Kubuntu and none work for me as well as 
Mandrake 10.2. I have now managed to find the system upgrades on a 
French ftp site and successfully installed them so my system is as safe 
as it is ever going to be. But those updates will not be added to, they 
are seen as part of a superseded system.

So I am going to hang on with M2005LE until the 2007 version appears, 
probably on next month's Linux Format mag, and try and upgrade the 
system. I did sent a (very) begging email to the Mandriva team pointing 
out my problem and I did get a polite response saying that they would 
pay attention to my suggestion.

I hope 2007 is faster, and of course the updates will keep it safer too.

So ... living in hopes then.

MikeR in Folkestone

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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