#1: How do I find the Hard Disk information? Like space left or used...

#2 How do I install and configure SANE? I have an AGFA Snapscan E20 usb scanner. I went to the SANE Website but found no instructions whatsoever.

#3 I have problems burning CD's, when I ran K3b Setup it asked to install the following programs: Emovix, Tccat, TcDecode, Tcextract,Tcprobe,TcScan, Transcode,Vcd xbuild, Vcd Xgen. Where do I get those programs?

#4 Is There a .NET Messenger Client for Linux?

I use Mandrake 9.1 with Kernel: 2.4.21-0.13

Thanks for your help.

# How are the hard drives partitioned
fdisk -l

# How much free/used drive space
df -h

# Show disk usage by current directory and all subdirectories
du | less


# Guides to software management
LNAG - How do I install a program I downloaded from the Internet?
Rute Guide's software explanation
You might want to check out CheckInstall to manage source code installations/uninstallation

# CD burning info
Is it configured and what is the device? Command this to find out:
cdrecord -scanbus
Adding an IDE CD-Writer to Linux
CD Writing HOWTO
Burning CDs on Linux
# Burn an ISO to disk
cdrecord -v speed=<burning speed> dev=<your device> /path/to/foo.iso
# Burn from disk to disk
cdrecord -v dev=<your device> speed=<burning speed> -isosize /dev/cdrom
# Generate an ISO from a directory.
mkisofs -Jr -o foo.iso /path/to/directory
mkisofs -vrTJUV "Label" -o foo.iso /path/to/directory
# Generate an ISO from a CD
dd if=/dev/cdrom of=foo.iso
Linux MP3 CD Burning mini-HOWTO
# Convert mp3 to wav with lame
for i in *.mp3; do lame --decode $i `basename $i .mp3`.wav; done
# Burn a CD from wav files
cdrecord -v -audio -pad speed=<burning speed> dev=<your device> /path/to/*.wav
# Erase a CDRW
cdrecord -v dev=<your device> speed=<burning speed> blank=fast

There are lots of messenger clients
# Find software here
The table of equivalents, replacements, analogs of Windows software in Linux
Freshmeat
Sourceforge
rpmfind

# Mandrake links
Mandrake home page
Mandrake Users website
Easy urpmi config for Mandrake
urpmi mini-HOWTO
Easy software management: Red Carpet
Maximum RPM
rpmfind
You didn't install the developmental packages? As root, command:
urpmi gcc
An Introduction to the Midnight Commander. You can install it by commanding:
urpmi mc
Midnight Commander home page

#1 You can view disk usage using Kdiskfree. It is under Applications>Monitoring in the Mandrake menu.

#2 I've never set up a scanner, but I think you should plug it in to the usb port, then open the mandrake control center. Click on Hardware, then open "scannerdrake". It is a wizard for setting up the scanner.

#3 You can run K3b without many of these programs if you don't have a need for making video cds or bootable movie cds.

#4 I'm not sure. Gaim is supposed to work for instant messaging on a lot of networks.

One other thing, you should go here: http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/

Follow the directions for setting up sources for rpms. You can then automatically download and install a variety of applications using the mandrake control center. (under software management). The plf source repository has applications that cannot be included in Mandrake due to liscensing issues. You can browse the software available for install and select the things missing for K3b to use.

well .NET is a microsoft technology so no you wont' get a .NET msn client...but you can get amsn which is a very good clone to the regular msn....as of k3b i don't think you need any of that to burn a cd....k3b is just actually looking to see if you have them programs on your box, if not, don't lose sleep over it...all k3b needs to find is cdrdao and cdrecord....and if it finds them two things, the you'll be able to burn cds...

I set up my scanner trough Mandrake Control Center and when I opened Xsane I got this: Failed to open device 'snapscan:/dev/usb/scanner0':Invalid Argument.

If you are using KDE, Kopete is a very nice little Instant Messaging program that can connect to MSN/ICQ/AOL/Yahoo as well as Jabber.

http://kopete.kde.org/

Also: What is the program to use webcams?

Have you been helped atall with this problem as I have the same trouble????

For msn, I'd recommend kmess. Because Microsoft tries to block all third-party clients, you might want to download the CVS-version, and compile from source. (at least, after 15 october) The latest CVS versions have support for the new messenger protocol.

compiling kmess:
or downloading the cvs:
Most webcams, tv-capture cards, etc... are all "Video4Linux" devices. You can use any v4l program to capture your webcam ;)

I had this problem as well, but have managed to sort it out. What I did:

1 - Copied the snape20.bin driver (other models will have different driver files of course) from the scanner resource CD [you still have the resource CD right?] to a sensible place - I used /usr/bin.

2 - Added a 'firmware' entry into the snapscan.conf file giving the full path and filename of the driver.

This stopped xsane throwing the 'Invalid Argument' error but now it was failing to locate a suitable device despite the scanner being plugged in and switched on.

I used sane-find-scanner and the scanner was there alright, but doublechecking with scanimage -L resulted in no scanning device being found. A bit more hunting around on the web turned up this blog entry:

http://cpbotha.net/weblogs/benjamin/...s/2003_03.html

"Update: My scanner is working now. Don't laugh... The problem was, I got a "Connection refused from 127.0.0.1" in my syslog. So I had to add localhost to my /etc/hosts.allow. That was it."

I quickly confirmed that I was getting similar behaviour to what Benjamin described and adding

ALL:localhost

into my hosts.allow file sorted the problem out for me also.

Hope this helps

Regards
Luke

Been over the previous post and got nowhere
the scanner is visible but i still get invalid argument

I have an other post running here on the same problem

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=167696