10:55 a.m.
Hi everyone!
F11 live cd, booting from USB on a eeepc 901 (20 gig model).
boots fine, pretty much everything works fine.
But...
1) sound volume is so low as to be nearly inaudible. I've cranked up every
mixer/volume control I can find, including alsamixer. I know that in F10,
doing that worked--every new kernel on f10 would reset alsamixer to 50%,
and I'd have to go reset it. But F11 seems to be different. Clues pls?
2) printing anything to my Brother HL2070N laser printer prints only one
line of garbage at the bottom of the page, then nothing else. Or else the
job sits in the queue forever without printing. Varies a bit depending on
which printer drive I choose. Same results whether I use the RH printer
config tool, or whether I browse to localhost:631. ON F10 (and pretty much
every other system I've used) configuring the printer has been a piece of
cake, and it "just works". I choose HL2060 as the printer model and usually
the recommended driver. Which one is the recommended one varies a bit
depending on the version/age of Linux one is using, but they've always
worked. Not now. Advice appreciated.
I wouldn't THINK these would be artifacts of using the live-from-usb
method. I'm trying to test it out for a while before blowing away the
(mostly) working F10 installation.
Thanks!
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5:45 p.m.
New subject: two F11 issues (brother printer)
On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 14:02 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:28:54 -0400
Joe Smith wrote:
> These two look relevant, at least:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?bug_id=507628,507629
For that model brother printer, this might also be relevant:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=496521
s-c-p picks a driver that doesn't work (but the foomatic/hpijs
driver is another choice in the list, and it does work).
The bottom line is use "Brother HL-1440 Foomatic/hpijs [en]". However
for more info, read on.
I have a similar problem with a Brother HL-1440 printer. Generally the
printer prints blank pages, or pages with a dark line at the top, or
pages with a few lines of garbage at the top. Sometimes, the first page
of a job is blank, but the remainder prints OK.
Advice on this thread was to select the driver explicitly. This isn't
so easy in system-config-printer: if you create a new printer
config-printer finds the HL-1440, and fills in the driver for you.
However, you can select the printer once it exists, select "Properties"
from the popup menu, and change the "Make and Model".
System-config-printer allows a number of drivers for the HL-1440
printer. I tried them all and printed the standard test page. These are
my results. Everything was done as "su root", which may just possible
have some effect on things:
* Brother HL-1440 Foomatic/gutenprint-ijs-simplified.5.2 [en] --
prints a dark line at the top of the page, which is otherwise
blank.
* Brother HL-1440 Foomatic/gutenprint-ijs.5.2 [en] -- prints a
dark line at the top of the page, which is otherwise blank.
* Brother HL-1440 Foomatic/hpijs [en] -- seems to work OK.
However be careful to select U.S. letter size paper (if you live
in the U.S.)
* Brother HL-1440 Foomatic/hl1250 [en] -- failed completely.
Message from Cups is "/usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip failed".
No output from the printer, not even a blank page.
* Brother HL-1440 Foomatic/lj4dith [en] -- prints two pages.
First has garbage at the top, second left upper corner of what
looks like the test page printed at twice normal scale.
* Brother HL-1440 Foomatic/ljet4 [en] -- similar to the last but
with dirty streaks running out from the left side of the page.
I like the Gutenprint drivers in general, so it would be nice to have a
working Gutenprint for the HL-1440, as there was in F-10.
11:35 a.m.
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 09:30:30AM -0400, Tait Clarridge wrote:
> > > I think for you the model will be ALC269 so you can
try either of the
> following (replace "toshiba" from the above line with one of the options
> below):
> > >
> > > basic
> > > quanta
> > > eeepc-p703
> > > eeepc-p901
> > > fujitsu
>
> right, the 901 reports it's a ALC269. So I tried adding the entry you suggested
> to modprobe.conf using eeepc-0901 and it didn't change the sound after a
> reboot. So I got brave and tried "basic", rebooted, and voila! Sound! :)
:)
> Haven't yet tried headphones, but I will shortly.
>
Did you try the quanta model? That gave me the loudest sound.
no, not yet. I'll give it a shot, though.
Also, you wrote back "eeepc-0901" for the model you tried. That is a typo, it
is really "eeepc-p901".
Right. it was p901 in the file, that was just a slip-o-the fingers in
the email.
Fred
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8:41 a.m.
right, the 901 reports it's a ALC269. So I tried adding the entry
you suggested
to modprobe.conf using eeepc-0901 and it didn't change the sound after a
reboot. So I got brave and tried "basic", rebooted, and voila! Sound! :) :)
Haven't yet tried headphones, but I will shortly.
Also, I think that modprobe.conf is deprecated, put the options line in a file named
alsa-base.conf (or anything you want, but that name works for me.. I don’t think it
matters what you call it) in /etc/modprobe.d/
Tait
8:30 a.m.
> > I think for you the model will be ALC269 so you can try
either of the
following (replace "toshiba" from the above line with one of the options
below):
> >
> > basic
> > quanta
> > eeepc-p703
> > eeepc-p901
> > fujitsu
right, the 901 reports it's a ALC269. So I tried adding the entry you suggested
to modprobe.conf using eeepc-0901 and it didn't change the sound after a
reboot. So I got brave and tried "basic", rebooted, and voila! Sound! :) :)
Haven't yet tried headphones, but I will shortly.
Did you try the quanta model? That gave me the loudest sound.
Also, you wrote back "eeepc-0901" for the model you tried. That is a typo, it is
really "eeepc-p901".
8:13 p.m.
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 06:36:37AM -0400, fred smith wrote:
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 12:18:30PM -0400, Tait Clarridge wrote:
> > Hi everyone!
> >
> > F11 live cd, booting from USB on a eeepc 901 (20 gig model).
> >
> > boots fine, pretty much everything works fine.
> >
> > But...
> > 1) sound volume is so low as to be nearly inaudible. I've cranked up every
> > mixer/volume control I can find, including alsamixer. I know that in F10,
doing
> > that worked--every new kernel on f10 would reset alsamixer to 50%, and I'd
> > have to go reset it. But F11 seems to be different. Clues pls?
>
> Unfortunately this will not work with the Live CD, but if you installed the Live CD
to your hard drive I am sure it will work. At least it did for me on my 1000HE.
>
> You might want to try setting the options for the snd-hda-intel module.
>
> For my EEE-1000HE I created the file /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf and put the
following lines:
>
> options snd-hda-intel model=quanta
>
> This broke my onboard microphones, but it made the sound much better.
>
> What you can try is the following:
>
> cat /proc/asound/card0/codec#0 | grep Codec
>
> Then look on this site
http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/sound/alsa/HD-Audio-Models.txt for your
model.
>
> For example, on my current Laptop the above command gives me
>
> Codec: Realtek ALC268
>
> So on the site I scroll down to the ALC267/268 section and I see the following:
>
> 66 ALC267/268
> 67 ==========
> 68 quanta-il1 Quanta IL1 mini-notebook
> 69 3stack 3-stack model
> 70 toshiba Toshiba A205
> 71 acer Acer laptops
> 72 acer-dmic Acer laptops with digital-mic
> 73 acer-aspire Acer Aspire One
> 74 dell Dell OEM laptops (Vostro 1200)
> 75 zepto Zepto laptops
> 76 test for testing/debugging purpose, almost all controls can
> 77 adjusted. Appearing only when compiled with
> 78 $CONFIG_SND_DEBUG=y
> 79 auto auto-config reading BIOS (default)
>
> Since my laptop is a Toshiba, I use the toshiba model option so the line in
/etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf looks like:
>
> options snd-hda-intel model=toshiba
>
> I think for you the model will be ALC269 so you can try either of the following
(replace "toshiba" from the above line with one of the options below):
>
> basic
> quanta
> eeepc-p703
> eeepc-p901
> fujitsu
right, the 901 reports it's a ALC269. So I tried adding the entry you suggested
to modprobe.conf using eeepc-0901 and it didn't change the sound after a
reboot. So I got brave and tried "basic", rebooted, and voila! Sound! :) :)
Haven't yet tried headphones, but I will shortly.
>
> When I was doing my eee 1000HE the quanta model would give me much louder sound and
the headphone sensing would still work.
>
> Just remember that you might want to reboot when making changes, I never had much
success with unloading the module and then modprobing it with the proper option.
>
> Trial and error is your friend!
>
> Let me know how it goes. I wrote a blog entry about it here:
http://www.taiter.com/blog/2009/05/eee-pc-1000he-tips.html
Tait:
Thanks for all the info. I'll letyou know once I've had a chance to mess
with it.
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5:41 p.m.
New subject: two F11 issues (brother printer)
On 06/23/2009 02:02 PM, Tom Horsley wrote:
...
For that model brother printer, this might also be relevant:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=496521
...
Yep, that's right on target. I was using the hl1250 driver in f9 and it
was working well.
Good to see that it's being looked into.
Thanks for following up, Tom.
<Joe
1:02 p.m.
New subject: two F11 issues (brother printer)
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:28:54 -0400
Joe Smith wrote:
These two look relevant, at least:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?bug_id=507628,507629
For that model brother printer, this might also be relevant:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=496521
s-c-p picks a driver that doesn't work (but the foomatic/hpijs
driver is another choice in the list, and it does work).
12:28 p.m.
On 06/23/2009 06:35 AM, fred smith wrote:
...
Do you know if anyone has filed a Bugzilla against this problem?
Good question. I forgot to check.
These two look relevant, at least:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?bug_id=507628,507629
It might be a good idea to go ahead and file a new one specifically for
the specific printer model, and include a reference to those existing
issues.
I was digging around on the Brother web site last night, after
reading
your mail, and couldn't find any mention of Linux. They certainly used
to have Linux drivers, but I couldn't find anything. Do you suppose
they've backslid on their Linux commitment? or is it hiding somewhere
else?
No idea. I've never tried to find their Linux stuff, just followed links
from other sites. It seems unusual for any vendor to crow about their
Linux support.
Here's the openprinting page for the printer:
http://openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Brother-HL-2070N
There's a link to the Brother support site on that page, but here it is
again:
http://solutions.brother.com/linux/en_us/index.html
<Joe
5:36 a.m.
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 12:18:30PM -0400, Tait Clarridge wrote:
> Hi everyone!
>
> F11 live cd, booting from USB on a eeepc 901 (20 gig model).
>
> boots fine, pretty much everything works fine.
>
> But...
> 1) sound volume is so low as to be nearly inaudible. I've cranked up every
> mixer/volume control I can find, including alsamixer. I know that in F10, doing
> that worked--every new kernel on f10 would reset alsamixer to 50%, and I'd
> have to go reset it. But F11 seems to be different. Clues pls?
Unfortunately this will not work with the Live CD, but if you installed the Live CD to
your hard drive I am sure it will work. At least it did for me on my 1000HE.
You might want to try setting the options for the snd-hda-intel module.
For my EEE-1000HE I created the file /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf and put the following
lines:
options snd-hda-intel model=quanta
This broke my onboard microphones, but it made the sound much better.
What you can try is the following:
cat /proc/asound/card0/codec#0 | grep Codec
Then look on this site
http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/sound/alsa/HD-Audio-Models.txt for your
model.
For example, on my current Laptop the above command gives me
Codec: Realtek ALC268
So on the site I scroll down to the ALC267/268 section and I see the following:
66 ALC267/268
67 ==========
68 quanta-il1 Quanta IL1 mini-notebook
69 3stack 3-stack model
70 toshiba Toshiba A205
71 acer Acer laptops
72 acer-dmic Acer laptops with digital-mic
73 acer-aspire Acer Aspire One
74 dell Dell OEM laptops (Vostro 1200)
75 zepto Zepto laptops
76 test for testing/debugging purpose, almost all controls can
77 adjusted. Appearing only when compiled with
78 $CONFIG_SND_DEBUG=y
79 auto auto-config reading BIOS (default)
Since my laptop is a Toshiba, I use the toshiba model option so the line in
/etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf looks like:
options snd-hda-intel model=toshiba
I think for you the model will be ALC269 so you can try either of the following (replace
"toshiba" from the above line with one of the options below):
basic
quanta
eeepc-p703
eeepc-p901
fujitsu
When I was doing my eee 1000HE the quanta model would give me much louder sound and the
headphone sensing would still work.
Just remember that you might want to reboot when making changes, I never had much success
with unloading the module and then modprobing it with the proper option.
Trial and error is your friend!
Let me know how it goes. I wrote a blog entry about it here:
http://www.taiter.com/blog/2009/05/eee-pc-1000he-tips.html
Tait:
Thanks for all the info. I'll letyou know once I've had a chance to mess
with it.
Fred
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5:35 a.m.
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 02:41:51PM -0400, Joe Smith wrote:
On 06/22/2009 11:55 AM, fred smith wrote:
>...
>2) printing anything to my Brother HL2070N laser printer prints only one
>line of garbage at the bottom of the page, then nothing else. Or else the
>job sits in the queue forever without printing....
Same problem here with that printer on my little network. It was working
perfectly for me in f9 using ipp and the hl1250 driver.
I could never get it to work with f11--same results you describe. The
wedged state seems to accompany a driver problem of some sort: I get
cryptic errors saying "/usr/lib/cups/backend/ipp failed' in the printer
config dialog, or "[Job 12] Job stopped due to filter errors..." in the
CUPS log.
The only way I got it to work was to install the driver and lpd bridge
from the Brother Linux support site. Not a very satisfying solution, and
there are still glitches with it (routine, erroneous "paper out"
condition), but at least I can print again.
I don't feel like I understand enough of what's happening or what's
/supposed/ to happen to even file a useful bug report--which is now the
case for huge chunks of desktop Linux, but that's a whole 'nother whine.
<Joe
Joe:
Thanks for the info.
Do you know if anyone has filed a Bugzilla against this problem?
I was digging around on the Brother web site last night, after reading
your mail, and couldn't find any mention of Linux. They certainly used
to have Linux drivers, but I couldn't find anything. Do you suppose
they've backslid on their Linux commitment? or is it hiding somewhere
else?
Once again, thanks for replying!
Fred
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1:41 p.m.
On 06/22/2009 11:55 AM, fred smith wrote:
...
2) printing anything to my Brother HL2070N laser printer prints only one
line of garbage at the bottom of the page, then nothing else. Or else the
job sits in the queue forever without printing....
Same problem here with that printer on my little network. It was working
perfectly for me in f9 using ipp and the hl1250 driver.
I could never get it to work with f11--same results you describe. The
wedged state seems to accompany a driver problem of some sort: I get
cryptic errors saying "/usr/lib/cups/backend/ipp failed' in the printer
config dialog, or "[Job 12] Job stopped due to filter errors..." in the
CUPS log.
The only way I got it to work was to install the driver and lpd bridge
from the Brother Linux support site. Not a very satisfying solution, and
there are still glitches with it (routine, erroneous "paper out"
condition), but at least I can print again.
I don't feel like I understand enough of what's happening or what's
/supposed/ to happen to even file a useful bug report--which is now the
case for huge chunks of desktop Linux, but that's a whole 'nother whine.
<Joe
12:27 p.m.
Thanks.
This works great for me.
-
------
Arijit Sarkar
India
On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 12:18 -0400, Tait Clarridge wrote:
> Hi everyone!
>
> F11 live cd, booting from USB on a eeepc 901 (20 gig model).
>
> boots fine, pretty much everything works fine.
>
> But...
> 1) sound volume is so low as to be nearly inaudible. I've cranked up every
> mixer/volume control I can find, including alsamixer. I know that in F10, doing
> that worked--every new kernel on f10 would reset alsamixer to 50%, and I'd
> have to go reset it. But F11 seems to be different. Clues pls?
Unfortunately this will not work with the Live CD, but if you installed the Live CD to
your hard drive I am sure it will work. At least it did for me on my 1000HE.
You might want to try setting the options for the snd-hda-intel module.
For my EEE-1000HE I created the file /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf and put the following
lines:
options snd-hda-intel model=quanta
This broke my onboard microphones, but it made the sound much better.
What you can try is the following:
cat /proc/asound/card0/codec#0 | grep Codec
Then look on this site
http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/sound/alsa/HD-Audio-Models.txt for your
model.
For example, on my current Laptop the above command gives me
Codec: Realtek ALC268
So on the site I scroll down to the ALC267/268 section and I see the following:
66 ALC267/268
67 ==========
68 quanta-il1 Quanta IL1 mini-notebook
69 3stack 3-stack model
70 toshiba Toshiba A205
71 acer Acer laptops
72 acer-dmic Acer laptops with digital-mic
73 acer-aspire Acer Aspire One
74 dell Dell OEM laptops (Vostro 1200)
75 zepto Zepto laptops
76 test for testing/debugging purpose, almost all controls can
77 adjusted. Appearing only when compiled with
78 $CONFIG_SND_DEBUG=y
79 auto auto-config reading BIOS (default)
Since my laptop is a Toshiba, I use the toshiba model option so the line in
/etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf looks like:
options snd-hda-intel model=toshiba
I think for you the model will be ALC269 so you can try either of the following (replace
"toshiba" from the above line with one of the options below):
basic
quanta
eeepc-p703
eeepc-p901
fujitsu
When I was doing my eee 1000HE the quanta model would give me much louder sound and the
headphone sensing would still work.
Just remember that you might want to reboot when making changes, I never had much success
with unloading the module and then modprobing it with the proper option.
Trial and error is your friend!
Let me know how it goes. I wrote a blog entry about it here:
http://www.taiter.com/blog/2009/05/eee-pc-1000he-tips.html
11:18 a.m.
Hi everyone!
F11 live cd, booting from USB on a eeepc 901 (20 gig model).
boots fine, pretty much everything works fine.
But...
1) sound volume is so low as to be nearly inaudible. I've cranked up every
mixer/volume control I can find, including alsamixer. I know that in F10, doing
that worked--every new kernel on f10 would reset alsamixer to 50%, and I'd
have to go reset it. But F11 seems to be different. Clues pls?
Unfortunately this will not work with the Live CD, but if you installed the Live CD to
your hard drive I am sure it will work. At least it did for me on my 1000HE.
You might want to try setting the options for the snd-hda-intel module.
For my EEE-1000HE I created the file /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf and put the following
lines:
options snd-hda-intel model=quanta
This broke my onboard microphones, but it made the sound much better.
What you can try is the following:
cat /proc/asound/card0/codec#0 | grep Codec
Then look on this site
http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/sound/alsa/HD-Audio-Models.txt for your
model.
For example, on my current Laptop the above command gives me
Codec: Realtek ALC268
So on the site I scroll down to the ALC267/268 section and I see the following:
66 ALC267/268
67 ==========
68 quanta-il1 Quanta IL1 mini-notebook
69 3stack 3-stack model
70 toshiba Toshiba A205
71 acer Acer laptops
72 acer-dmic Acer laptops with digital-mic
73 acer-aspire Acer Aspire One
74 dell Dell OEM laptops (Vostro 1200)
75 zepto Zepto laptops
76 test for testing/debugging purpose, almost all controls can
77 adjusted. Appearing only when compiled with
78 $CONFIG_SND_DEBUG=y
79 auto auto-config reading BIOS (default)
Since my laptop is a Toshiba, I use the toshiba model option so the line in
/etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf looks like:
options snd-hda-intel model=toshiba
I think for you the model will be ALC269 so you can try either of the following (replace
"toshiba" from the above line with one of the options below):
basic
quanta
eeepc-p703
eeepc-p901
fujitsu
When I was doing my eee 1000HE the quanta model would give me much louder sound and the
headphone sensing would still work.
Just remember that you might want to reboot when making changes, I never had much success
with unloading the module and then modprobing it with the proper option.
Trial and error is your friend!
Let me know how it goes. I wrote a blog entry about it here:
http://www.taiter.com/blog/2009/05/eee-pc-1000he-tips.html
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