Two Questions

[Dazed_75]

On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Mark Jarvis <m.jarvis at cox.net> wrote:

>
> 1) My daughter left her SanDisk iPod-type mp3 player plugged into a USB
> port on my machine. When I tried to boot, the machine would not even do a
> normal memory check and stopped short. Multiple times. When I finally
> noticed the dern mp3 player and unplugged it, everything was fine. On
> occasion I have also seen that a plugged in flash drive has messed up the
> boot. Just curious--why would this happen?
>

Generally this happens when the BIOS has the Boot Device order/priority
showing the USB device before the hard drive.  BIOS then attempts to boot
from the USB device and that seems to hang the system.  I have seen this on
maybe 6 different systems.  If you do truly want to boot from a USB device,
it is safer to change the order so the HD is earlier than the USB (which may
not show unless one is plugged in) and then use the Boot Menu (usually F12)
when yoou actually want to boot from a USB drive.  And, yes, I know that was
not the intent here.

>
> 2) A friend has a Canon Pixma IP 1500 printer that he's trying to get
> working on his Ubuntu 9.04 installation. Although the IP 2000 is supported,
> the 1500 is not. He's managed to find, download, and install drivers for it
> (quite impressive for someone that is very new to Linux) but is now stumped
> by a "missing filter" message. I've never had to jump through the hoops that
> he's already done and don't really know what sort of a filter could be
> missing. Any suggestions?
>
I don't remember the wording, but when setting up the "new" printer, there
is a button where you can tell the installer that your model is not listed.
Clicking on that will cause the system to go get more info on additional
models.  Has he tried that?

>
> From the specs, the (unsupported) IP 1500 seem to be the same basic engine
> as the (supported) IP 2000, just degraded slightly in speed & memory. I've
> faked out systems before by telling the add printer wizard that I really had
> a similar--but supported--printer, but that was with an LPT connection. How
> does one do something similar with a USB connection? (I'm hampered here in
> that I'm trying to help via phone and haven't actually seen his box or the
> choices on his screen.) This should be the easiest way to get him up &
> running.
>
> We'll both greatly appreciate any help.
>
> Mark Jarvis
>
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