Ultimate Edition 3.8

[madhatter]

Copy/paste code...where do I find the code...?

[kraziekoi]

Oh, my! Sadly enough, I've found a possible glitch. Every thing else seems perfect, but It appears CUPS is broken. I've loaded 3.8 gold on 2 of my machines, one an I7 processor and the other an AMD fx 8 core. Same problem. No printer support. Synaptic shows CUPS not loaded, when try to download and install I get an alert that it is broken. I've run all the "fix broken package" solutions in both synaptic as well as the various command line solutions. Md5sum is correct on downloaded iso. Is it possible that CUPS is broken at the repository? Has anyone else experienced this issue with 3.8? Help needed, please.

[Blackwolf]

[AdiosXP]

Greetings to all from this nooB ...

Imho, the team that created UE3.8 deserves TOP HONORS for this distro! I found that UE3.8 is clean, lean, and mean (in a positive sense) compared to the many other distros i've tested (live & installed). For my (admittedly ancient) setup, only 3 other distros come somewhat close: Pinguy, Centrych, and CentOS; followed by the various Mint* flavors (Mint16 showing great promise, though), and the various *buntu flavors bringing up the rear (Kubuntu taking the lead, though).

As our family's "geek", i was tasked with getting us out from under WinXP but with minimal added expense (upgrading to new PCs is out of the question). Our PC-"plant": a bunch of 7-10 y.o. PCs (yup, pre-multicores) with open AGP-slots (plus more memory) being the only upgrade paths left to us.

UE3.8 was THE ONLY distro that properly sensed my PCs Nvidia6200 card, and worked visually & functionally "out of the box", yet with a very low (<256MB) footprint to boot. Alas, there are some caveats i yet have to resolve (which i'll be posting in separate topics), but my overall impression & initial experience is/was GREAT. Again, thanks a lot for all your hard work!

[kraziekoi]

LOL! Yes, those are the correct questions, but yes, I have. it is funny in that simple stuff has happened before ;0). Anyway, yes, printer on, works on other os's (I multi-boot several), and I've rebooted a couple of times. As I mentioned, the curious thing is I have the identical problem on the other machine I've loaded 3.8 on. This one has my head itching ;0) I installed from live os on a zip drive. Since the results are the same on both machines I am now thinking the image on the zip maybe got corrupted. Anyway, I'lI go through the drill again and unetbootin onto another zip and reload. If that resolves the problem, I'm a happy camper. If not I am out of ideas. I have to say, I really like 3.8, so hope this will get resolved.
BTW, I've been running BlackOpal64 since shortly after you folks published it. Another Great distro.

Thanks, Blackwolf!

[billy20]

Nice, have it on my laptop as well. touch pad works. except for the tap for enter.

Bill

[kraziekoi]

In important issue that I totally overlooked to state. My printing issue involves WIRELESS printing which, of course, is an important detail. My Bad!
Anyway, still have the same problem. I installed on a new memory stick, booted and I have exactly the same issue. Appears there is an issue surrounding cups packaging and the wireless interface. All else works perfectly...strange indeed.

[billhedrick]

On of the problems I have had with linux drivers in general is that many manufacturers only support 32 bit drivers, that might be an issue for you.

[billy20]

[kraziekoi]

definitely not a driver issue as the add printer function doesn't even begin to look for printer. There is a new thread started specifically regarding the identical problem I have. One clue is CUPS and some supporting libraries is not loaded. When I try to load CUPS it is not allowed (broken package related message), yet there there is no broken package(s) found. I've used several command line fixes as well as the synaptic one to no avail. The only conclusion I can reach (at this point) is that something is not interfaced properly inside 3.8.

I see a new thread has been started directly related to wireless printer problems and the folks there have the same issue as I do.

Thanks for your response. Hopefully this can be resolved soon. This 3.8 version is too nice to have to avoid due to printing issues.