Comments on: A mixed bag of Ubuntu

by: Waddles

Sun, 26 Apr 2009 07:40:28 +0000

I have been working through the problems with the Canon MP730 Scanner driver recently. Please see my page at http://waddles.org/content/sane-canon-mp730-driver

Unfortunately, the major fix will not be included in SANE 1.0.20 so you will need to apply the patches yourself.

by: koreth

Thu, 20 Apr 2006 14:29:12 +0000

I never did get it working, but maybe someone else did?

by: milan

Thu, 20 Apr 2006 07:13:23 +0000

I’m also wrestling with a mp730 canon scanner/printer with kubuntu 5.10 at the moment. strange thing is when i run sane-find-scanner i get output that it found a scanner

found USB scanner (vendor=0×04a9, product=0×262f) at libusb:002:002

i found some howto’s about other canon scanners but this is the only thread i came across with my model. did you have any luck?

by: josh matthews

Mon, 10 Apr 2006 09:05:16 +0000

got the mp730 working with driver bj8pa06n.upp - recommended under canon printer s630

by: tom

Sun, 22 Jan 2006 23:23:20 +0000

Installing Ubuntu then installing the KDE metapackage is just a good/better in my mind. You get the best of both worlds in one installation. Just choose at the logon screen which environment you want to use.

by: Ola Rinta-Koski

Wed, 20 Jul 2005 23:59:27 +0000

Which driver did you use for printing to the MP730 from Linux?

by: Justin Finkelstein

Tue, 12 Jul 2005 17:03:09 +0000

Have you tried kubuntu? Or ubuntu with KDE?

by: Zach

Tue, 12 Jul 2005 12:05:09 +0000

Hi, I submitted this comment earlier, but it didn’t stick. Maybe I did something wrong (forgot to hit submit?). I’m wondering if you could share some details of your experience with tytool in ubuntu? I find most of it works just fine except when I get ready to create the dvd structure using the IFO edit option. At this point it starts attempting to invoke a lot of external programs and running dvdauthor (which ironically is a linux native program being run with cygwin) from an autogenerated bat file. This kludgey process doesn’t seem to work within wine. Any suggestions? If you could post details in your blog or to my email address (junkmael99@gmail.com) I would appreicated it. Google has been very stingy on this topic .

by: CoolAJ86

Sat, 09 Jul 2005 15:34:53 +0000

Some issues you mentioned:

You had to reinstall with server mode in order to not load X:
Actually, when grub loads up and you get to pick which kernel you want to use, hit ‘e’ to enter the edit mode. Then append ‘1′ at the end of your kernel options. That will boot you up into a ’safe mode’ of sorts. (Recovery Mode may be the same thing, but I’ve never tried it).

You couldn’t find nautilus:
Nautilus is the browser. So every window you open for handling files _is_ nautilus.

Couldn’t edit apps menu:
You should be able to (on my dad’s windows laptop, atm, so this is from memory) go to ‘View’ => ‘Location’ to get a location bar in which you can type ‘applications:///’ to get to reorganize your apps menu. Your best bet is to open up a browser as root and do this.

sudo nautilus -browser applications:///

Additionally, if you dislike the new window opening every single time you click a folder, go to ‘Edit’ => ‘Preferences’ and choose ‘Open New Windows in Browser’ or something like that.
Some more tips here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-174.html
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Gnome_Desktop_Admin_Guide

Don’t worry, Novell is really working on enhancing things like that, I would expect it to be much more intuitive next year.

I hope that helps.

If you have any questions about linux in general or gnome feel free to contact me - I’m fairly well versed. I use Gentoo as my main OS, Ubuntu as my second, and Windows as occasion requires. I was a Windows guy back a year or two ago, and I would say that I know EVERYTHING about XP as a workstation (minus some of the undocumented command-line tools)

Just google coolaj86 and you can find all my info.