"Roger Mills" wrote in message
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In an earlier contribution to this discussion, The Natural Philosopher
wrote:

Ryan P. wrote:

The average person will have no idea how to make anything work in a
Linux build.

Normally there is zero need.

The only problem I had here was my scanner, which simply wasn't
supported period.

My wife now has it, and I bought a cheapo off ebay that was.

Linux appeals to the computer geeks of the world, not to
the average computer owner.

Not these days mate. Its come a long way.


OK, a couple of recent examples. . .

I had another go with Ubuntu on my PC only last night. It is installed on
the hard disk and set up to dual boot with XP - so I'm not running from
CD.

First problem: Printer. It recognises my HP1220C printer, but when I try
to print a test page it prints multiple pages with a line of gibberish at
the top of each page. So I remove the paper to stop it wasting and a whole
ream - and when I try to troubleshoot, all it tells me is that bloody
thing is out of paper! I can't find how to actually cancel job and tell
the printer to stop what it's doing.

Second problem: Dual monitors. In my XP setup, I'm using two monitors -
the laptop's own screen plus an external monitor, with the 'desktop'
extended across the two. This is easy to set up in XP - just by going to
Display Properties - but I haven't a clue how to do it in Ubuntu - and
couldn't find anything useful in 'Help'.

So I gave up again. Pity - 'cos I'd really like to get shot of everything
Microsoft - but life's just too short to do so!
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Cheers,
Roger
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A long shot but that HP printer behaviour sounds a bit like what happened
with one of ours. Only by chance did I come across a thread that explained
that the printer (with integral scanner) expected us to do a print head
alignment before it counted as installed - by putting the first test page on
the scanner to let it read what adjustments were needed. We had no idea it
needed to do this and were rather peeved by the waste of paper and ink every
time we turned it on. Of course no sooner did we discover the secret, than
the ink ran out...

S