I got myself a Canon iP1800 and I must say I was really excited to use it. I know for a fact that Canon printers are not fully supported in Ubuntu but hey I got it for free from my credit card's rewards points so I had to make the most out of it.
I had to search the web and got a link where I downloaded the drivers for the printer. I'll post the website when I get home... I'm in the office now just blogging away! Hahaha! Anyway if you need the drivers just let me know and I'll email it to you. It's kinda big... 1.8 MB
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This setup was seamless and I got my SE P990i phone talking to my laptop in minutes. Here's what I had to do
- sudo apt-get install bluetooth gnome-bluetooth
- sudo apt-get install bluez-gnome bluez-utils
- Plugin my bluetooth USB dongle and I see it recognizes the device and starts up bluetooth-applet in the system tray.
- Search for laptop from the phone using bluetooth.
To send a file from phone to laptop, startup bluetooth file sharing from Applications -> Accessories on ubuntu and then try sending a file. You should see a pop up dialog on your desktop asking you to either accept/reject the transfer.
To send a file from your laptop to your phone, right click the file and then select sendTo.
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I'm wondering if there's a software that I can use to get my P990i working in Linux Mint / Ubuntu.
I tried installing the software that came in with the phone in wine but it didn't work. Tried using wammu and gammu but for some reason it's not detecting my phone properly. :(
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I'm posting this just in case I forget what I did to make my 3D effects work in Ubuntu 7.10 and Linux Mint with ATI Radeon Express 200M as my video card.
1. Make sure that the 3rd party driver for the video card is being used.
2. Go to /etc/X11 folder and run sudo gedit xorg.conf in the terminal
3. Make sure to change composit to enable from 0 as shown below:
Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "enabled"
EndSection
from
Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "0"
EndSection
4. Go to synaptic package manager and search for and install it
5. Also in synaptic package manager search and install compiz setting manager
6. Restart the computer
7. Lastly choose custom to enable the 3D effects under Appearance Preferences > Visual Effects
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I just replaced my Ubuntu with Linux Mint. It's also based on the Ubuntu Kernel so everything is almost the same but more elegant... as their tagline says: "From Freedom came Elegance"
Here's how it looks like...
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I've been wondering why Ubuntu's default CD extractor can't extract my music in mp3 format. I remembered... hey Ubuntu is a free software and mp3 is in a way a proprietary format just like AAC and WMV etc. Ok too techie for you? These are the common file extensions that Windows, Mac and other softwares use in labeling music files.
OGG a free music format is readily available but not all player are using it YET!
The thing to do at this point is to go to add/remove and choose all available applications and then look for Ubuntu Restricted Extras. This will enable Ubuntu to use mp3 and other formats not native to it. This option is not checked by default so you might wanna give it a try,
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I've been working on this issue for I think a month now and the problem is very intermittent. I even thought of changing my OS to Linux Mint 4.0 just to check if it will resolve my issue. I found numerous suggestions online and tried them.
The last thing that I did try, I think solved the problem but I'm still not sure.
What to do:
1. Go to the Administration > Software Sorces then choose Update and make sure that unsupported updates (gutsy) is checked.
2. Then open a terminal and type sudo apt-get install linux-backports-module-generic
I think the reason is because after doing this Ubuntu will download the necessary third party driver for the sound card which in my case is a sound blaster.
Will monitor my computer first for a few weeks and if the problem doesn't come back then I would assume it solved it!
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