how can i stop mandriva from being so wastefull?
issue 1
I have a logitech wireless mouse keyboard as soon as the mouse battery's arent quit full (2 days old) the mouse starts to jitter wobble around the screen and gets harder and harder to control? the logitech mouse driver makes no difference it does it with or with out it installed when i boot to other operating systems it doent happen (put new battery's in it it stops doing it).

Issue two my hp printer prints test pages all the time for the last set of ink cartages its printed 35 test pages.
Is there anyway to stop it before I make it land fill?

After dealing with a wireless mouse for a couple of weeks I threw the damned thing against the wall, $60 down the drain.

Microsoft scroll mouse, long cable, $20.

Logitech K120 keyboard, long cable, $19.

Problem solved.

Sometime technology is similar to those little dancing dogs in the circus -- the question is not how well but rather why at all.

Hope this helps some.

The problem with wireless is that something else wireless may interfere
may not be the computer or mandriva at all


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If that where the case it would do it with every o/s I boot into it doesn't just with the o/s like to use Mandriva.

I do not use a wireless mouse anymore for the same reason and it did not seem to care which distro I was using. The batteries always seemed to die when you needed them most and you could not find anymore handy.

I had similar problems with a logitech ex110 mouse and keys, wireless is nice, but the dramas with latency and batteries became a pain in the butt.

Have you set up HPLIP?

H-P, of all the printer/scanner/plotter manufacturers, seem to provide the best Linux support for their products and HPLIP is the absolute berries for setting up and operating H-P printers. If it is not provided with your distribution, you can download and install it from http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/index.html.

I have found that, once installed, the best way to configure each printer is, logged in as root (or su - or sudo as you choose), is to open a terminal and execute
That will open an interactive form that will let you do the configuration quickly and easily -- and it creates the CUPS connection for you. If you already have your printer(s) configured in CUPS, it may be a good idea to delete them then recreate the entries with HPLIP.

Hope this helps some.

tronayne thanks for your reply yes I have the hp-device manager installed.
It installed its self as the printer / scanner/ card reader was plugged into the machine.
I was talking to my neighbour yesterday he has the same type of printer and has the same complaint and doesn't use Linux.
so I think its a hp issue Im complaining about.

I had to remove orignal hplip and install the latest release of hplip to get everything working on my new printer.

The current version of HPLIP is 3.11.5 -- if you don't have that version, as Larry Webb suggests it would be a good idea to remove your existing HPLIP and replace it with the current version.

I am kind of wondering, though -- I've never known any H-P or other printer software automagically installing itself on a Linux system (on Click-'n'-Drool, yes, but not on Linux). Are you sure you've actually got HPLIP installed? If you enter
it will show you the version number (you should have at least version 3.11.x).

While you're at it, what version of CUPS are you using -- open your browser and go to http://localhost:631; the version should be at least 1.4.x (current is 1.4.6). You may also want to take a look at your printer(s) as defined in CUPS to see if there's something goofy (can't hurt, eh?).

Hope this helps some.

I use a cheap wireless mouse here (IIRC, about $15.00 US). I bought a set of rechargeable Ni-Mh batteries and a charger for it. The mouse works well for about a week or so, then I swap out the batteries and charge the used ones in preparation for their next working cycle. This solution works well for me, and I do not have to fight the mouse cord.

My mouse takes two AA batteries, so I got a set of four AA Ni-Mh batteries with a charger unit for about $20.00 US. I have been using the same set of batteries for about eighteen months with no problems yet. If my research is correct, I expect to get new batteries in about six months (for a total expected life of about two years). If this proves to be true, I will spend about $5.00 per year for mouse batteries (four batteries cost about $10.00 US without the charger unit). I have no complaints with that, because it is worth that to me to not have to fight the mouse. YMMV!

Just wanted to say wireless mouse haters are wrong. You just had wrong mouse to compare with. I can suggest Logitech LX7(i think i'm using that one(lost package with model description so googled it) but it differs on other side but top and design is same so i guess it is same) and with Duracell batteries it lasts very very long so you forget about batteries for quite lot time. Been using it for few years and it's very light, handy and works on every system i tried without flaws.
Ontopic: It's not Mandriva's fault about mouse. On Windows it does same but only when batteries are way too low on power.

I had a logitech and also a microsoft wireless mouse and the batteries (Duracell or Entergizer) would last a little over four to six weeks. I never turned the mouse off. That is too often to be replacing batteries, I think they should last at least six months or more.

Well i doubt you will find any battery that will last for months with active use without recharging mechanism. But you mentioned 4-6weeks. This particular mouse works longer than that. I think because it has optimised battery usage + auto standby. Some mouses have this and it depends on usage - if you are using wireless mouse nonstop you should get mouse with recharge hardware or rechargeable batteries to recharge while sleep etc. Otherwise for daily use it's fair long enough. Or just have both wired and wireless to switch when needed. Just pick optical or laser cause ball mouses isn't worth it anymore.

I have not considered or used a ball mouse for at least 7 maybe 10 years. I consider them with the wireless mouse, too much maintenance.