On Fri, 4 Dec 1998, Evan Parry wrote: > Hello all. I have recently moved to Debian after a couple years of > Slackware and, more recently, FreeBSD. So far things have been quite > nice and I am liking Debian quite a bit. > > The only problems I am having is getting some hardware working > correctly. The first item is my printer, a HP Deskjet 682C. When > printing things I often get unexplainable errors where the printer > just stops working and the error light starts flashing. Removing, > cleaning and reinserting the printer cartriges seems to fix the > problem some of the time but this is a hassle and doesn't always work. > > The second problem is sound. I recently got a SB16 PNP card and it > appears to be correctly configured with no apparent errors. Despite > this, no sound ever comes out of the speakers. Not being very good > with sound, I'm at a loss here. > > TIA >
I'm fairly new to Linux, so forgive me if I'm just making noise here, but it sounds to me like your printer problem is a hardware issue. I say this because I don't know of any thing that software could foul up that a cartridge cleaning would fix. Do the errors happen on every print job, or just after an indefinite "while"? Have you tried printing from another OS or another computer since the problem first manifested itself, just to make sure it's specific to your Debian box? I never had success with my sound card either, but there's so many other things for me to learn that I've put it on the back burner. A couple of things I do know: 1) You have to have sound support compiled into your kernel, which is not the case for the default Debian-distributed kernel; and 2) You may need the isapnp (correct name?) package installed in order to get plug-n-plugagain-n-plugoncemore devices to work. -- Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] KC5ENO - Amateur Radio: When all else fails. Linux - Finally! A real OS for the Intel PC! "Life is an ongoing classroom." - Capt. James T. Kirk, "Dreadnought"
