Re: Configuring printer (HP 870Cxi)
On Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 06:06:47PM +, you wrote: Hi to all I'm using Debian Potato and, I must say, it's wonderful, even if it's unstable (sometimes WindowMaker 0.6 freezes, and sometimes the entire system crashes with strange errors). However a big problem I'm having is about printing. I'm using an HP Deskjet 870Cxi printer, I configured /etc/printcap with the magicfilter dj550c-filter (I haven't found the right filter for 870) but when I print something different from text (text prints well) I get an error: can't find file dju550c. Where is this missing file?? I downloaded and installed the djtools package, but that didn't resolved anything... Any help would be very appreciated. Thanx Bye Marco Hi Marco, I am running potato with an HP855 printer. Here is what works for me. It should also work for your HP870. I am using apsfilter instead of magicfilter. I had problems with the potato version of apsfilter , so I installed version 4.9.7-5 from slink. I am using this in conjuction with ghostscript. For ghostscript, go to the debian ftp site and get the deb binary from debian/project/experimental. This has been hacked to include the HP850 driver, which will also work for the HP870. This setup has been performing flawlessly for me. Good luck. Gene
Re: Switching to KDM...
Try removing kdm, then reinstalling it. You may have to use --force-overwrite when you run dpkg on the reinstall since kdm wants to overwrite some files that were previously installed by xdm. Gene On Mon, Aug 09, 1999 at 02:54:01PM -0400, you wrote: Hi, Debian newbie asking his normal stupid question :-) I have KDE on my computer, works just fine, etc etc. When the computer boots up it goes straight into XDM. I can log in and kill xdm from a text window and start up kdm, no problems there. I would, however, like to change it so KDM starts instead of XDM. I haven't tried this in a while so I can't recall what steps I've taken, but any advice would be much appreciated :-) Jon -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: smail doesn't read ~/.forward file
On Sun, Aug 01, 1999 at 08:52:58AM +0200, you wrote: Hi, I am using smail on my debian slink box with 2.2.10 kernel. I set up my ~/.forward file in order to sort my mail through procmail (|/usr/bin/procmail) but it didn't work. Trying various .forward files, I figured out that this file is not read at all. You don't need to use a .forward file in this case. Read section 2c of /usr/doc/procmail/examples/advanced. You just have to add the following two lines to your /etc/smail/transports file, replace the existing local entry: local: return_path, local, from, driver=pipe; user=root, cmd=/usr/bin/procmail -d $($user$) Gene
