Recently I tried to install my Epson Stylus C60 printer but to my dismay its driver was not listed in the KDEPrint driver GUI. After much trial-and-fail and searching I finally found that you can simply go to http://localhost:631/ in any browser and easily locate your elusive printer driver. After clicking on “Add Printer” the process is very straight forward and has far more drivers listed. Once you have finished adding your printer you will be pleased to find out that it will appear in the Printing GUI of your desktop environment, (Gnome/KDE,) ready to print.
Posted by strabes Restore the Windows boot option to GRUB
May 6, 2007If you somehow lost the option to boot into Windows in your GRUB menu, you can get it back by simply adding some text into /boot/grub/menu.lst. Be very careful when editing this file because an error could cause your system to not boot and it would take some work to fix the file.
First, run this command to open up your menu.lst in a text editor:
gksudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst
Add the following text to the very end of that file:
title Microsoft Windows
root (hd0,0)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1
Keep in mind that you have to change hd0,0 to whatever is your actual windows partition. Look here to read about the GRUB partition naming scheme and to find out what you should change (hd0,0) to. To get a list of all the partitions on your hard disk you can run this command:
sudo fdisk -l
So, for example, if your windows install was located on /dev/sda3, you would change (hd0,0) to (hd0,2).
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