Linux-Hardware Digest #465, Volume #9 Fri, 19 Feb 99 15:13:31 EST
Contents:
Re: Sound Blaster PCI 64 (Jeremy Crabtree)
Re: M570 Motherboard, AMD K6-300 and Redhat 5.2 (Mark Borgstrom)
mouse - cut & paste (Jatin Kamat)
Re: Sony CDU31a on Gateway (Jim Reidford)
Matrox Mystique G200 AGP 8Mb ("F.den Braber")
Re: Winmodems and Linux? ("Robert Carney")
Re: PCI modems in linux? (Matt Kressel)
Wireless keyboard (Daniel Rahme)
Help (going to install Linux in the next few months) (Ken Arromdee)
Re: Need driver for SMC Elite16 Ethernet Card (Henrik Carlqvist)
Re: ISA video card recommendation (David Ripton)
Re: PCI modems in linux? (Rob Clark)
Re: Matrox Mystique G200 AGP 8Mb (David Ripton)
Newbie help with install (Philip M Ravenscroft)
Re: dec TULIP NIC not running with 100mbit ? (david parsons)
Re: Celeron and Linux How about it? (david parsons)
Re: Problem mounting a 'newer FAT32' filesystem Linux5.0 ("Tom Emerson")
ASUS V3400 TNT X-server? (Design Factory)
Re: Cheap PCI SCSI? (Jeff McWilliams)
Cannon Bubblejet Printer (Eric Kappotis)
Re: RedHat 5.2/ how to install/update ghostscript 4.03 to 5.10? (Bob Tennent)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeremy Crabtree)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Sound Blaster PCI 64
Date: 18 Feb 1999 18:06:51 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
David Brown allegedly wrote:
>Johannes Rest wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> at home I've such a SB PCI 64. What options did you select? I've tried
>> several configs but none of them seem to work. I've tried to do a
>> insmod sb to insert sb.o (as suggested by one of the readme files)
>> but the resource is busy (I'm running kde and there's a sndserver
>> running)
>> Any idea?
>>
>> Thanks
>> --
>> Johannes Rest
>
>Johannes:
>
>I compiled kernel 2.2.1 with OSS Sound System support and 100% SB compatible
>(sb16,32...) support as modules. (I have an AWE64). I'm also using KDE 1.1,
>and it works just fine, though there is always a warning message during boot
>about the device being busy. What options did you select?
That isn't relevant, the PCI64 isn't back compatible with any SoundBlaster
card; regardless of what Creative Labs says. The PCI64 uses the Ensoniq
ES137X chipset, which is the same chipset used by the Ensoniq AudioPCI. So
to use it in Linux, you should be able to use the AudioPCI driver in the
2.2.X kernel.
[SNIP...about MIDI]
--
"Being myself a remarkably stupid fellow, I have had to unteach myself
the difficulties, and now beg to present to my fellow fools the parts
that are not hard" --Silvanus P. Thompson, from "Calculus Made Easy."
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From: Mark Borgstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: M570 Motherboard, AMD K6-300 and Redhat 5.2
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 10:42:30 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bernhard,
Well I'm pretty impressed so far! I wrote your "busy" program and l=
et
it run on my machine all last night. It was running just fine in the
morning. Can you give me some hints about finding and soldering VCORE an=
d
GND on my motherboard? I'm amazed that you could identify this problem a=
nd
develop this solution. Thanks!
Mark
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I had the same problem with the same board with a K6-2/300:
>
> As the board was designed, before the K6-2 was out, there is
> a problem with the voltage regulator:
>
> The regulator needs a minimum load for proper operation.
> Under Linux, the K6-2 does not provide the necessery load,
> and the core-voltage may rise from 2.2V up to 2.8V!
> That can (and likly will) crash the machine.
>
> As Lose95/98 don't have a power saving idle mode, the current
> is always high enough when using those interrupt handlers.
>
> Temporary Solution:
> You can provide an CPU-Time consuming "idle-loop" (or is it a
> "busy-loop" :-) ):
>
> main() {for(;;);};
>
> RH5.1 should not crash as long as the idle-loop
> is running
>
> Permanent Solution:
> Solder a 10 Ohm / 10 Watt resistor between Vcore and GND.
> This will provide the necessary load and the board will
> do it just fine.
>
> --
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> | Bernhard Kuhn (kuhn[at]lpr.ei.tum.de) O|||OO||OO| |
> | Laboratory for Process Control and Real-Time Systems O|||O|O|O|O |
> | Technische Universit=E4t M=FCnchen Tel.+49-89-289-23732 O|||OO||OO|=
|
> | 80290 M=FCnchen, Germany Room 3944 Fax -23555 OOO|O|||O|O |=
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
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From: Jatin Kamat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: mouse - cut & paste
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 12:47:34 -0500
Hi
I'm using mitsumi scroll mouse PS2
I'm working on redhat linux 5.2. My current mouse config is
-generic 3 mouse buttong
and emulate 3 buttons.
1) But I'm not able to cut and paste using my mouse. I'm using Shift +
insert to paste. Its a pain. Please help.
2) shift+insert works ok to paste from unix shell to another unix shell.
It doen't work when I try to paste something from netscape to unix shell
OR from unix shell to netscape.
Thanks in advance
Jatin
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From: Jim Reidford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sony CDU31a on Gateway
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 16:21:20 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I inherited a Gateway P5-90 to use as a web server. It came
> complete with both a FOOF and F/DIV bug, and the IDE channel
> is buggy too! You get what you pay for.
>
> I have installed Red Hat and everything is recognized and
> working except the CD-ROM.
>
> The CD-ROM is a Sony CDU31a. However, my card does not look
> like the one in the documents. I can't see a vendor name
> and the only info is an FCC ID: KGACDU31A2
>
>
> --
> Ian Neath, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Have a look at http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/ead and search for the FCC ID
you gave above according to the inf there it s an audio adapter but it
also gives the info for the manufacturer
HTH
--
Jim Reidford
--
"Due to financial constraints,
the light at the end of the tunnel
has been turned off until further notice !!"
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From: "F.den Braber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Matrox Mystique G200 AGP 8Mb
Date: 19 Feb 1999 18:21:40 GMT
I wonder if anybody knows if this card is already supported under Linux.
I only read about the PCI version.
Thanks.
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From: "Robert Carney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Winmodems and Linux?
Date: 18 Feb 1999 18:47:25 GMT
~The Seventh Sign~ wrote in message <7ahkfm$2c9$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>No drivers for winmodems and there should never be any drivers for
>winmodems they hog CPU resources. It is like having a bicycle car when you
>need a motorized car.
We've seen many explanations for why there are no Winmodem drivers
for Linux in this and other newsgroups. Still, there are millions of users
who are "stuck" with Winmodems. If someone is smart enough to figure
out how to write a driver that handles the DSP algorithms and hosting
chores for one or more of the more common <$20 V.90 Winmodems,
he/she will instantly rise to superstar status in the Linux galaxy. As I
recall, Linux was ridiculed by the comp sci elite for porting *nix to the
"unworthy" x86 architecture just a few years back. With the K6-2 300
and Celeron 300a CPUs selling for <$70, who cares if 5% or 10% of
the processor cycles are wasted? Of course, here and now, we have
no choice but to avoid controller-less, DSP-less modems, so I'm using
an ISA Zoom modem in my RH5.2 box.
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
From: Matt Kressel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PCI modems in linux?
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 18:17:29 GMT
Doug wrote:
>
> Can a PCI modem be used in linux? If so how? Something called a modem
> enumerator is installed in windows along with the modem itself and i
> dont know what that is. Its creative modmeblaster DI5630 v.90. Its
> being used as PnP right now but there are jumpers on it I dont have the
> manual so im trying to find out if com and irq can be hard set..
> Thanks for any help and please email me a response if possible at
> ratchet at tir dot com
> Doug
Yes if you can set the jumpers and/or you can configure it via PNP.
Usually under Linux PNP, requires isapnptools. I have an internal PCI
USR modem in my box working just fine.
-Matt
--
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+--------- Northrop Grumman Corporation, Bethpage, NY ---------+
+--------- TEL: (516) 346-9101 FAX: (516) 346-9740 ------------+
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From: Daniel Rahme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Wireless keyboard
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 18:37:44 +0100
I'm thinking about buying one of those tasty-looking wireless keyboards
from Sejin (www.sejin.com).
I'd like to know if anyone has any good/bad experiences with such things
with Linux (2.2.X). Do they work at all?
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Help (going to install Linux in the next few months)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ken Arromdee)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 19 Feb 1999 13:48:48 -0500
Hi... I'm considering taking the plunge to Linux (probably Red Hat) but I'm
trying to figure out first whether my hardware will work. Can someone help
me? Yes, I already RTFM. These questions are _after_ looking at TFM.
I have a parallel port Sony Storstation, which is a relabelled Iomega Ditto
2GB Drive. The ftape-HOWTO claims that some but not all parallel port drives
work, and lists Ditto 2GB as supported without explicitly mentioning the
parallel port version. So is mine supported?
The HOWTO also says that some PCI motherboards have problems. Since all
modern motherboards have PCI slots, does this mean that ftape hardly ever works
any more, or are the problems only evident on older boards? Or does "PCI
motherboard" mean something other than "motherboard with a PCI slot on it"?
My CD drive is an old Hitachi CDR-7730 4X. Using this under Windows
requires loading the DOS device driver first (apparently to do some sort of
initialization; it is supposed to pass control to the 32 bit Windows driver
afterwards). Can I use this under Linux? It connects to a regular IDE
connector.
I know that there is not much PNP support in any Linux right now. What kind
of support can I realistically expect to see in the future, though?
Same question, for 3D cards. (Note: I don't play Quake.)
My processor is a K62-350. The Red Hat compatibility list suggests that
K6 systems may freeze while installing. How much of a problem is this?
Oh yes, and will a driver for one distribution of Linux work on another
distribution?
--
Ken Arromdee |They said it was *daft* to build a space
[EMAIL PROTECTED] |station in a swamp, but I showed them! It
[EMAIL PROTECTED] |sank into the swamp. So I built a second
http://www.inetnow.net/~arromdee|space station. That sank into the swamp too.
================================+My third space station sank into the swamp.
So I built a fourth one. That fell into a time warp and _then_ sank into the
swamp. But the fifth one... stayed up! --Monty Python/Babylon 5
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From: Henrik Carlqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Need driver for SMC Elite16 Ethernet Card
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 21:32:24 +0100
Ralph E Wagner wrote:
> Just installed RedHat5.2, but it doesn't recognize my SMC Elite16
> NIC.
> Does anyone out there know of a driver for this or some way to get RH
> to detect it?
Download the slackware NFS installation boot floppy, boot from that one
and let it autdetect your NIC. Then build yourself a kernel with support
for the autodetected driver.
regards Henrik
--
spammer strikeback:
root@localhost [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Ripton)
Subject: Re: ISA video card recommendation
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 18:53:05 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Dennis R. Juds Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Thu, 18 Feb 1999 22:33:07 -0800, "Ron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote Some interesting stuff that seems to have disappeared:
>
>>Can anyone suggest an ISA video card that supports 800 x 600 x 16bit?
>>
>AFAIK ther is no such card as the ISA bus video cards will only go to
>8 Bit color, screen sizes may vary though.
No, there are ISA cards that will do 16- and 24-bit color. I still
have an ATI VGA Wonder from about 1989 that does 16-bit. (Mine
only has 512K, though, so it can't hack 800x600x16-bit.)
Go to www.pricewatch.com and click video cards then ISA. There
are quite a few still available. Dunno which are supported under
Linux, but if you look at the XFree86 docs and compare it to the
cards on pricewatch you'll find a match.
--
David Ripton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
spamgard(tm): To email me, put "geek" in your Subject line.
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: PCI modems in linux?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Clark)
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 19:12:13 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Matt Kressel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Doug wrote:
>>
>> Can a PCI modem be used in linux? If so how? Something called a modem
>> enumerator is installed in windows along with the modem itself and i
>> dont know what that is. Its creative modmeblaster DI5630 v.90. Its
>> being used as PnP right now but there are jumpers on it I dont have the
>> manual so im trying to find out if com and irq can be hard set..
According to Digicom, this modem does not have "legacy jumpers," which
means that any jumpers it has are not used for setting the address.
http://www.modemblaster.com/product/index.html
This is a Windows 95/98/NT-only modem.
>Yes if you can set the jumpers and/or you can configure it via PNP.
>Usually under Linux PNP, requires isapnptools. I have an internal PCI
>USR modem in my box working just fine.
Hmmm, I doubt that it's PCI, though. What USR model number are you using?
Rob Clark, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Ripton)
Subject: Re: Matrox Mystique G200 AGP 8Mb
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 18:57:14 GMT
In article <01be5c34$e479e0c0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
F.den Braber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I wonder if anybody knows if this card is already supported under Linux.
>I only read about the PCI version.
It's supported under XFree86 3.3.3 and later. If you don't want to
upgrade your whole XFree86, you might still be able to grab just
the Matrox binary from SuSE's ftp site.
--
David Ripton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
spamgard(tm): To email me, put "geek" in your Subject line.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Philip M Ravenscroft)
Subject: Newbie help with install
Date: 19 Feb 1999 19:30:14 GMT
I inherited an old 486DX tower system with a 201 MB hard drive. I want
to turn it into a Linux machine and would like to install a CD-ROM and a
bigger second hard drive. I have heard that my card may not be able to
handle a drive larger than 512 MB.
However, i have no experience with PC hardware and don't know how to tell
what motherboard/IDE (I assume the drive is IDE) card I have. The bus
seems to be PCI because I bought a PCI NIC card which works.
Are there any ways to tell which motherboard/card combo I have? Any
resources on the net?
thanks,
philip ravenscroft
infosculpture
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: o r c @ p e l l . p o r t l a n d . o r . u s (david parsons)
Subject: Re: dec TULIP NIC not running with 100mbit ?
Date: 18 Feb 1999 10:52:52 -0800
In article <79ce1d$iji$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Michael Glauche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi,
>
> I have some trouble getting my dec tulip card to work with 100 mbit/sec.
>Running 2.0.36 (redhat 5.2).
>
>/etc/conf.modules :
>
>alias eth0 tulip
>options eth0 options=5 (5 should be 100 mbit FD)
>
>The NIC is connected to a 100 mbit FD, switch.
>
>any suggestions ?
I was running a pair of 100mbit SMC tulip cards for a while, and not
only did I have to set the options (I believe I had options=11, for
what it's worth) but after the machine booted I would have to unplug
and replug the cable to the switch before the stupid thing would
toggle to 100mbit full duplex. I upgraded to the el-cheapo netgear
tulip-clone ethernet cards later, and those WOULD (with the version
of tulip.c that netgear provided on their driver disk. I [heart]
Netgear) automagically roll up to 100mbit and full duplex without
setting options.
In a nutshell, older cards don't work as well with the Linux device
drivers.
____
david parsons \bi/ 2 100mbit SMC etherpowers rotting away, waiting for
\/ an NT machine that WILL properly do 100mbit. Sigh.
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From: o r c @ p e l l . p o r t l a n d . o r . u s (david parsons)
Subject: Re: Celeron and Linux How about it?
Date: 18 Feb 1999 11:00:13 -0800
In article <79k3q5$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Byron A Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In article <79ckcv$8dn$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>Smartpatrol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>I have been dinking around with linux for a little while however I don't
>>know where or how to pass the MEM= to the Kernel. Is it part of compileing
>>or in a seperate boot file?
>
>Fortunately this little piece of Linux lore is soon to die the ignoble death
>it so richly deserves.
>
>Get the latest 2.2.X kernel (2.2.1 as of this writing) and compile it.
>Not only will your system run faster due to improved memory management etc.,
>the kernel will now automagically detect the correct amount of memory.
Alas, this is not always the case :-(
There are new motherboards out there that DON'T support the 0xe801
memory call, and have to be told how much memory they have.
A patch is being worked on (modulo about 50 gallons of phlegm) that
will attempt to use Yet Another Enhanced Memory Detection Scheme,
but that requires access to one of the offending PII motherboards
and the nerve to run a 2.2.x kernel on it.
____
david parsons \bi/ Oh, the embarrassment.
\/
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From: "Tom Emerson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problem mounting a 'newer FAT32' filesystem Linux5.0
Date: 19 Feb 1999 18:36:48 GMT
Jose Urena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in article
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> is the Windows 95 filesystem part of your kernel?
> you might need to rebuild your kernel with all the MSDOS file System
options
> plus NFS support
and "codepage" support (NLS) -- often overlooked because it's in a
different area of the kernel config script/menuconfig, but needed to
support the characterset that makes up the filename [or some such nonsense]
>
> Paches wrote:
>
> > I tried:
> > mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /doze (thanx to help from readers)
> > but I got this:
> >
> > [MSDOS FS Rel. 12,FAT 16, check=n,conv=b,vid=0,gid=0,umask=022,bmap]
> >
[me=0xf8,cs=8,#f=2,fs=32,f1=0,ds=32,de=0,data=32,se=0,ts=12578832,ls=512]
> >
> > Transaction Block Size = 512
> > VFS:Can't find a valid msdos filesystem on dev 03:01
> > mount:wrong fs type,bad option,bad superblock on dev/hda1, or too many
> > mounted filesystems
> >
> > Hmmmmmmmm
> > -Paches
> >
> > >
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Design Factory)
Subject: ASUS V3400 TNT X-server?
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:24:30 +0100
I'm using version 3.3.3.1 of XFree86 but i just can use my Asus V3400
TNT with VGA server 640x480 16 col.
Does anyone knows which x-server i should use for better resolution?
Thank you
Andy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeff McWilliams)
Subject: Re: Cheap PCI SCSI?
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:09:54 GMT
In article <54bha7.2h5.ln@localhost>, Stuart R. Fuller wrote:
>Dae ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>: Is there a Lowcost (hoping for around $50 USD) PCI SCSI card I can get
>: that will allow me to hook up, CD-RW,ZIP, scanner, and possble and
>: internal HD that will work with Linux (Red Hat 5.2) with little/so
>: problems with setup?
>
>Most any PCI-SCSI card with the NCR 53c810 chip.
>
> Stu
www.insight-electronics.com/order/
Click on "check on part prices"
Under company manufacturer select "Symbios", and show 30 items per page.
Go to the 2nd page, Symbios 20810 is $28.00. It's a PCI card
based on the 53c810 chip.
--
Jeff McWilliams - Advanced Development Engineer, ACE Technologies
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Eric Kappotis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Cannon Bubblejet Printer
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 14:38:09 -0500
Hello,
I'm currently using a Cannon BJC-620 printer. However there is no
driver for linux that allows me to make use of the 720x720 dpi. Does
anyone know of any way i can make use of all of the features of my
printer?
Thanks for any input,
Eric K.
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From: r d t@c s.q u e e n s u.c a (Bob Tennent)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: RedHat 5.2/ how to install/update ghostscript 4.03 to 5.10?
Date: 19 Feb 1999 19:48:03 GMT
On Fri, 19 Feb 1999 11:38:07 -0500, doug wrote:
> I'm having some problems in getting the newer (5.10) ghostscript
>package
>installed on my RedHat 5.2 system. It currently has 4.03 ghostscript. If
>I use rpm -i or rpm -u, the package is installed OK, but it breaks the
>printtool (i.e. in the filters menu there are only 2 selections instead
>of
>the normal many. it shows only postscript & plain text filters). If I
>try
>gs --version, it errors out with unable to open libraries.
If gs doesn't run, it clearly hasn't installed OK. This would explain
why there are no drivers available for printtool. gs -h should show
what's available.
If I then
>uninstall
>the package, and re-install the rpms from the 5.2 CD everything is fine.
>I'm installing the fonts, (gs/urw) & the latest printtool and
>printfilter
>packages. I've tried many combinations of the packages. It seems to me
>that it
>shouldn't be this hard, I mean I haven't had this type of trouble until
>this.
Which 5.10 rpm have you been trying to install? The rpms from
http://www.users.dircon.co.uk/~typhoon/html/ghostscript.html
are very good. If all else fails, get the source for 5.50 from
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/index.html
and compile your own.
Bob T.
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