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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/22/19 9:39 PM, Rick Moen wrote:<br>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Quoting Bobbie Sellers (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com">bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com</a>):
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap=""> I showed Jim that his machine worked from
the Ubuntu 18.04.1 USB Flash Drive I had made
for him after the last meeting with a faster boot
and a working WiFi.
Since the meeting I have mailed him a
copy of the manual for this machine and
a URL for the problem that may give
useful advice. He can connect at home via
Ethernet wired connection.
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Once again, quick thinking and generous help!
Basically, it's been shown conclusively that there's nothing wrong with
Jim's laptop hardware. Moreover, everyone including Jim should have
been clear on this point by, at latest, your posting of January 8th
where you reminded Jim that everything had been fine when he'd booted
your Ubuntu Studio live distro. Yet, here we are 1/2 month later, and
Jim hasn't acted.
Jim: Time to fish or cut bait.
Decide how much of a time budget (two hours? three hours?) of serious
diagnosis you're willing to put into repairing whatever you somehow
broke on your existing installation. Spend that time, and see if you can
find and fix your boo-boo. (No, I urge that you stop thinking it
credible to suppose that things just 'broke'. This is wildly
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Jim has tried. <br>
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If you can't, then update your data backups -- you have complete, tested
backups of your data files, right? right? -- and then blow away
everything during a fresh installation.</pre>
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He assured me that he has backups.<br>
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You _do_ have handy the means to reinstall and are comfortable with
using that, right? If not, fix that, first.</pre>
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I made sure that he did passing him a Flash Drive with the
working copy of the Ubuntu 18.04.1 for<br>
this purpose.<br>
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Jim has to travel again to support his family responsibilities,
later this week and into the middle of<br>
next week. Meantime he has plenty of work at hand to finish before
he travels.<br>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap=""> Now a 3rd problem for your delectation as
last week it seems the printer driver for my
consumer Epson 515NX has disappeared from
CUPS recently.
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1. The Epson Stylus NX515 (note: correct model name) has been out of
production for about nine years.
2. All-in-one printers have always had a pretty dreadful reputation for
quality, hence it's unlikely the coders of printer driver software would
own them, hence little motivation to create and maintain quality
drivers. This is doubly so for an inkjet-based all-in-one printer
with inkjets' ruinously expensive supply costs. (We've talked about tis
before. You said you use it because you don't have much money. I
replied that practically any non-inkjet option would cost you less
money.)
3. That having been said, looks to me like the current Gutenprint (v.
5.2.15) release still includes the escp2-nx515 driver, which is what is
reported to be the best choice for your thing:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/p_Supported_Printers.php">http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/p_Supported_Printers.php</a>
So, I'm confused about what 'has disappeared from CUPS recently'
means. Do you have the gutenprint package installed, or not? What
printer driver did you use to use (i.e., what does 'the printer driver
for my consumer Epson 515NX' mean specifically)?</pre>
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Well the copy of CUPS I had at hand does not have that driver.<br>
Late last night I re-installed CUPS and a lot of other related
files.<br>
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If all goes well I will be trying out the printer again this AM.<br>
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I started pricing the smaller laser printers last night but<br>
the consumable seem to be high priced but then you get<br>
more pages out of the refills.<br>
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Bobbie Sellers<br>
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