To play DVD: "mplayer dvd://"

If it complains about not being able to find the dvd device, try (adjust it if needed): "mplayer -dvd-device /dev/cdrom dvd://"

You can also go straight to play a given title, for example "dvd://2" for second title.

Sorry, no idea about fax, never used/needed that.

Well, gentlemen, here we are over 2 months later and the problem remains the same. I went to scan something last night, as user, and Kooka wouldn't work. I thought about it for a moment, logged off, and signed on as root. Kooka came to life. So, I did the scan and was it ever SLOW. When finished, the format I wanted to save it in wasn't available, so I booted to XP and did it there.
Today I uninstalled hplip and installed the latest version 1.7.3 (?) from linuxpackages.org.
Nothing changed. Same as it has always been. The printer driver works with CUPS, but when I run hp-setup, using all the advice I've received in this thread, I still get the error message, that hp-setup cannot find any hp devices installed on the system.
I'm getting real tired of this nonsense. Why does nearly everything with Linux have to be like pulling teeth?
Anyway, I've looked, but haven't found another scanning software package. Does anyone know of scanning software that will work with Slackware 11, kernal 2.6.18 and KDE 3.5.6 (that I don't have configure, make, make install, etc., etc, etc.).
Thanks.

Did you un-install hpijs ? You should or it will interfere and give you that "hp-setup cannot find any hp devices installed on the system"

Oh, and forgot to ask (and I don't see it here anywhere) ... what printer do you have ? It might be an important piece of info.

I use xsane for scanning ... it cames with Slackware 11.0.

Did I uninstall hpijs? Yes.
Printer is a HP DeskJet 940c, but that shouldn't have anything to do with it.
xsane is installed, according to the package manager, but it looks like I will have to manually add it to the KDE program menu.
I'll give it a try.
Thanks.

OK. Xsane looks like it will to the job after some tweaking. Currently it is turning the image, a document on white paper, pink, but I can probably adjust that.
However, it, like Kooka, only will run as root. How do I get it to run as user?
Many Thanks.

There is a group called "scanner". Dunno if it helps maybe try to add your user to that group (edit /etc/group and add your user at the end of the "scanner"-line.

I don't know which package you're using now, but you might want to check where your sane libs are. If they are in /usr/local/lib, then try copying them over to /usr/lib/sane, and then run 'ldconfig' as root.

cp /usr/local/lib/libsane-hpiao* /usr/lib/sane/

ldconfig

The Slackware 11.0 /testing and the LinuxPackages packages both work fine on my machine. Haven't tried to compile the -current package yet. Just remember to remove the hpijs package before installing any of them.

I'm using a Deskjet 5940 - drivers not included with hpijs (had to download them from Linuxprinting.org) but with included with hplip.

You may need to uninstall the printer under CUPS, as hplip _may_ not recognise the existing printer configuration.

EDIT: you shouldn't need to add yourself to the scanner group if your printer is not a multi-function one

That did it! Many Thanks!
Is there such a simple trick for e-fax and RPPPPoEk?
I've changed the permissions on /dev/tty/0 many times as it is the only way e-fax can open the port and see the modem. Each time I log back on I have to change the permissions again to get e-fax to work.
I've NEVER, regardless of how many files I've changed permissions on, been able to start or stop RPPPPoEK as user. I end up opening a terminal windows and su to root and run the line commmand.
If anyone knows a solution, it would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.

Here's the printer page for that printer:
http://openprinting.org/show_printer...P-DeskJet_940C

Remove all traces of previous hplip and hpijs installs and try this again, and make sure your exact printer model is available, and you select it:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...02#post2645802

I have no other ideas.

cwizarddone. I have just read this in some efax docs.

For efax to operate correctly, the user must have write permission to
the /var/lock directory, and to the serial port to which the fax modem
is connected. In most distributions, the uucp group has write
permission for these: if this applies to your distribution, the
easiest approach is to make users members of the uucp group.

So perhaps adding yourself to the 'uucp' group will solve it. Who knows.

That did it!
Thank you very much!!!

I've tried it, Xsane, and it works, but......it leaves a lot to be desired.
SLOW!
I could scan 3 pages maybe 4, in XP using HP's software, in the time it takes to scan one page using Xsane.

B&W.
I've read thought the docs, but don't see how to make a simple B&W copy. Maybe I don't understand the choices, but I've wasted a lot of ink trying the "negative" options.

Color.
It, Xsane, gives everything, including B&W print on white paper a dirty yellow cast. Scanned a photo of nice looking light yellow building the other day, but after Xsane scanned it, it was a dirty mud yellow looking building.

Any tips on how to overcome these problems?

What brought all this up, was I went and installed the latest hplip the other day. Unstalled the printer, etc., and started from scratch and the result were the same as they have always been, "No HP devices found."
I've given up on hplip. KDE can find the printer and Xsane can find the scanner, so I guess that is the way it going to have to be.
Thanks, again.

On xsane you may want to reduce the resolution of the scan. I think default is 75 dpi ... which is quite fast. Of course, if you want better quality go with 300 or 600, but they will take longer and generate much larger files.

Did you remember to restart the machine. For some reason a restart is needed in order for it to work properly. I have no idea why, but that's what I have to do or it doesn't find the printer.

Even at 75 dpi it is MUCH SLOWER than the HP scanning software running under XP. I have found that to get a good quality copy of whatever I'm scanning I have to use at least 200 dpi.
It has no trouble finding the printer.
Thanks.