Peripherals and Linux

[El-Daveo]

Well.. i have an MP3 player called a Zen Micro (by Cre4tive Labs) and to be honest; i just cant get it to work, no linux drivers (all Windoze drivers) between this and gaming these are my last 2 barriers before i tell MS Doze to
'GO %$@! itself'. this is honestly the most irritating thing i have ever encountered, by far. I need help real bad.. so someone for the love of god..

HELP!

Im not on my home computer right now so .. yeah help me out.. my cheap (35-50$) Lexmark has no linux support either.. help.. chances are that after i get some discs i will be trying CentOS 4(ish) later.. so, yeah, i dunno if that will makea difference.. i dont care so long as they work.

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[shakumafu]

Well i just did a quick google search and found this
http://gnomad2.sourceforge.net/

gl

[antidrugue]

Well.. i have an MP3 player called a Zen Micro (by Cre4tive Labs) and to be honest; i just cant get it to work, no linux drivers (all Windoze drivers)

Can't you just connect the thing and mount it like a USB device? Then drag and drop songs?

my cheap (35-50$) Lexmark has no linux support either.. help.. chances are that after i get some discs i will be trying CentOS 4(ish)

Which exact model is it? Did you take a look here?
http://www.linuxprinting.org/

[shakumafu]

Can't you just connect the thing and mount it like a USB device? Then drag and drop songs?

The zen micro is a hard drive so special software is needed to transfer files.

Mandriva has pretty good hardware and printer support out of the box so you shouldnt have too many problems installing the printer

[El-Daveo]

Gnomad has some many dependancies its unbelieveable.. if you people can find all of them sure.. i tried..

and the printer... no go.. it dont work..

i tried.. please.. please keep helping..

i dont know all the dependancies ... youll have to find them..

ty in advance... later

dave

[antidrugue]

The zen micro is a hard drive so special software is needed to transfer files.

Yes well, I thing you are right about this gnomad2: people on different forums seem to like it. It does look easy to configure.

Did you try it, El-Daveo?

[El-Daveo]

alright.. yeah thats a nice thought .. nice to configure etc.. But It Doesnt WORK at all..
everything has a dependancy.. gtk+ all kinds of s*it .. its more than you care to know.. trust me.. i just spent 4+hours on it

dave

[fingal]

I can't help you with the Zen player (I don't even have an mp3 player but I hear iRiver is good) but the printer ... That's something else.

How have you tried setting it up? There are a couple of ways to do it, but I think the best way is to use KDE's built-in print manager and to use CUPS as the default print server. I went through your problem with my Canon and it turned out to be a bad printer cable. I'd be surprised if your Lexmark didn't work in the end because they contribute (I think) to open source development.

CUPS (errrr.. I haven't checked but something like Common Unix Print Server) supports printing over networks etc ... so it's pretty good. Mandriva includes a lot of open source printer drivers.

[antidrugue]

everything has a dependancy.. gtk+ all kinds of s*it .. its more than you care to know.. trust me.. i just spent 4+hours on it

Isn't there a gnomad2 package in Mandriva? There is one in most distros. So you shouldn't have to worry about those dependencies at all.

[El-Daveo]

Isn't there a gnomad2 package in Mandriva?

No.. no there isnt.. try again.. even the rpms have dependancies (the ones i got off the net)