Linux-Hardware Digest #438, Volume #13 Thu, 17 Aug 00 17:13:07 EDT
Contents:
VIA SOUND with kernel 2.4.0-test7-pre4 (Michael Meding)
Re: Onboard modems (Rob Clark)
Re: buying a new printer (Michael Meissner)
Re: IRQ under Linux (David Hinds)
Notebook Video Display ("Palm Springs, Ca.")
Re: linksys question... (Frederick Artiss)
Modem / pppd question ("Peter Kuykendall")
Re: Are there any that will work with the Intel i810? (D G)
Re: can't read contents of floppy disk (Dances With Crows)
Xerox XE Series (WorkCentre XE80 Specifically) (Scott Bradley)
Re: Modem / pppd question (Edward Lee)
Re: Color printer advise seek (Andrey Vlasov)
Re: Xerox XE Series (WorkCentre XE80 Specifically): Forget (Scott Bradley)
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From: Michael Meding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: VIA SOUND with kernel 2.4.0-test7-pre4
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 18:34:35 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi everyone,
I have a problem with my onboard sound on my MSI-6330 K7TPRO.
The thing is xmms plays *wav's and mp3's fine, but Quake3 and DOOM
LEGACY do not rpoduce anything. Also different OpenGL demos do not
deliver sound, the sound files are played solely by xmms fine.
Doom Legacy jumps at me with sequencer not configured. So I guess it is
just some messed up link or configuration somewhere.
Any clues anyone ?
Thanks in advance.
Greetings
Michael
PS Mailing me would be nice
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Subject: Re: Onboard modems
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Clark)
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 17:24:02 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>DTRenwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> I have an HSP56 onboard modem.
>
>HSP = host signal processing
>
>> Is there any chance
>
>no, there is no chance.
Yes, there is! Please see the "Linmodem drivers" section of
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
for the PCTEL "linmodem" driver.
Rob Clark, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: buying a new printer
From: Michael Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 17 Aug 2000 13:35:33 -0400
Philipp Jeyapalan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm thinking of getting a new printer. I'm intending to buy a color
> inkprinter (so no laser) and have had a lot of trouble with my HP 710c as I
> try to get it working under Linux. Does anybody have any adwise for me, which
> product to buy or which one I should keep away from. I'll be glad for any
> tips and hints.
>
> Thanks a lot.
>
> Philipp
>
> ps. I've already checked http://www.linuxprinting.org
If you can still find any left, there previously was a fire sale on Lexmark
Optra 40's for ~ $80, when Lexmark came out with the newer Lexmark Optra 45.
The Optra 40 is a postscript printer, so you don't have to fiddle with
postscript emulations, etc. If you get the Optra 40, you will need to add
memory (it takes a standard SIMM, which I had lying around). The Lexmark Optra
45 presumably works too, but it normally retails for $700. On the other hand,
stay far away from the Lexmark Z series of printers....
--
Michael Meissner, Red Hat, Inc.
PMB 198, 174 Littleton Road #3, Westford, Massachusetts 01886, USA
Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: +1 978-486-9304
Non-work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] fax: +1 978-692-4482
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From: David Hinds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: IRQ under Linux
Date: 17 Aug 2000 17:34:24 GMT
In comp.os.linux.portable Sebastian Fischmeister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: It seems to be a problem of IRQ sharing support in the kernel
: drivers. When I compile a kernel and add two devices which use IRQ 11,
: then the computer freezes when Linux is booting.
Ok, some drivers in your kernel might have bugs that prevent
successful interrupt sharing.
: Once I loaded the pcmcia modules and they are running 'lspci' produces
: an error. It does fail if the pcmcia modules are not loaded.
I don't know about this; lspci does not have this problem on my
systems. It sounds like a bug in lspci.
-- Dave
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From: "Palm Springs, Ca." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Notebook Video Display
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 18:41:57 GMT
Greetings,
I just installed Redhat 6.2 on my Digital HighNote VP745
and I set the graphics at 1024X748 on install, but upon start up my desktop
graphics are oversized and slightly off. Any suggestions. All assistance
is greatly appreciated.
Keith
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From: Frederick Artiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: linksys question...
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 20:44:07 GMT
Oh gosh, good luck! You chose the one network card that people have been
having problems with in linux. The problem is that Linksys changed their
card and the linux people haven't had a chance to write a good driver
for it. (Probably it's a tulip). I've heard some people have had luck
recompiling the kernel with lines supplied by Linksys, but I found it
less trouble to just replace the card -- especially if you're new to the
OS. Just for kicks, I'd start out with Redhat and see if it
automatically detects the card on install. If not, replace it. A lot of
cheap cards exist based upon the Realtek 8139 chipset. If you want an
expensive card, try an Intel Pro-100 card.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> hello. i'm trying to install a linksys 10/100 network in a box to
> connect my win98 machine (amd k6-400 128mb ram) to my redhat linux 6.2
> machine (pentium 233 64mb ram). i have the cards in their respective
> machines, and now i need to know where to begin with the linux
> installation. i'm relatively familiar with unix, but just got this
> linux box about 3 months ago and this is my first hardware installation.
> where in the world do i begin?
>
> thank you,
> trent
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
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From: "Peter Kuykendall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Modem / pppd question
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 20:51:39 GMT
I am currently designing a modem bank that will consist of 24 modems (56K
each) connected to an embedded PC with an ethernet connection running Linux.
I want to run pppd so that all 24 users can connect to the ethernet backbone
via their modems.
I'm concerned as to wether or not Linux will task switch fast enough to
service pppd (or multiple instances of pppd) in order to keep up with the
data flow. In terms of CPU cycles it's trivial, but I wonder if the task
switcher can get to it in a short enough time. If pppd is an extension of
the kernel then it will work for sure, but if it is a scheduled process then
it may possibly have too much latency before getting a timeslice.
My plan is to lay out a board using 24 embedded modems and 24 UARTs
(actually 3 each octal UARTS), and run a 1Khz oscillator to fire the
interrupt. That way Linux won't be burdened with a whole lot of interrupts;
every millisecond (or 5 ms or so) it will jump to the ISR and check all 24
buffers (TX and RX).
Can anybody provide me a sanity check here? Will I be invoking a single
instance of pppd that will handle all 24 modems, or 24 instances of pppd
with 1 modem each, or some other configuration? And do you forsee any
problems with this setup?
Thanks very much in advance -
-- Pete
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From: D G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Are there any that will work with the Intel i810?
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 13:51:58 -0700
I just got back from the LinuxWorldExpo. I was surprised to see that
Intel had a booth there specifically for linux on the i810
motherboards. The guy there recommended XFree86 4.0.1 and the 2.4.0 or
2.3.99whatever_the_latest kernel. Otherwise, the 2.2.16 kernel should
be OK, although he recommended using the XFCom server from
support.intel.com with that kernel.
There were two modules that the i810 relies on, one is the agpgart, and
I can't remember the other. But the other module will be in the 2.4
kernel and only partially exists in the 2.2.16 kernel. (I'm just
paraphrasing what I remember.)
Hammer wrote:
>
> Hi Jeff. We just got two of those i180 cheapbastards in here and had a
> wrastling match with'em. I went the RH62 route, and experiencd all the
> same problems you are (solved now though, after much pain)
>
> Another guy had a Mandrake 7.1 CD... guess what... zero trouble. These
> are (stupid/cheap/crap) Dell Optiplex GX110 boxes with the
> i810/810e/AC'97).
>
> Neither of us still have sound (crap AC'97), but we're working.
>
ALSA works great for me:
http://www.alsa-project.org/
SUSE 6.4 ships with it. I don't know about other distros.
--
DG
e-mail is: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(remove the Z's--they're what I do when I read SPAM!)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: can't read contents of floppy disk
Date: 17 Aug 2000 20:59:02 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 17 Aug 2000 15:44:42 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I have made a boot floppy rather than booting from the hard drive. All
>my attempts to read the contents of the drive in order to insert boot
>parameters has failed. When the floppy is mounted the dialog returned is
>"/dev/fd0 is not a valid block device." I mount using mount /dev/fdo
>/mnt/floppy and I do have a /mnt/floppy directory.
>
>Also while I am asking for help, I know how to format a floppy and put a
>file system on it; but how do i put a boot.img on it and still be able
>to read the disk contents? I use fdformat /dev/fd0H1440 to format and
>/mkfs -t ext2 /dev/fd0.
It all depends on how the boot disk was made. A standard boot.img will
often be made using either the Minix filesystem (less overhead for small
volumes) or no filesystem at all (that is, if it's merely a kernel image
and a RAMdisk file.)
Where are you getting this boot.img from? Have you tried mounting it
like so?
#mount /path/to/boot.img /mnt/floppy -o loop
BTW, it's not necessary to mkfs a disk if you're just going to dd a raw
image to it. fdformat is necessary, though....
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Those who do not understand Unix are
http://www.brainbench.com / condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
=============================/ ==Henry Spencer
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From: Scott Bradley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Xerox XE Series (WorkCentre XE80 Specifically)
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 21:03:23 GMT
Before anyone points it out unnecessarily, I already know that the Linux
Printing HOWTO says that the XE80 is a paperweight. However, I still
would like to explore ways to get it working since there is not much
information available on what has been done up to this point.
Has anyone seen any attempts or workarounds to getting this series of
printers working under Linux? Or does anyone know why they do not
work? I did not think it was a Winprinter, though from the platforms it
works on this might be suspect (though they made a driver or something
for Win3.1, which is odd if it is a Winprinter).
Thanks.
--
Scott Bradley AIM:scotbrad1 ICQ:5537123
Free Physics Project (http://freephysics.sourceforge.net)
Hanton's Razer: Never attribute too malice that witch can
adequitely be explained buy stupidness.
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From: Edward Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Modem / pppd question
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 14:10:09 -0700
Peter Kuykendall wrote:
> I'm concerned as to wether or not Linux will task switch fast enough to
> service pppd (or multiple instances of pppd) in order to keep up with the
> data flow. In terms of CPU cycles it's trivial, but I wonder if the task
> switcher can get to it in a short enough time. If pppd is an extension of
> the kernel then it will work for sure, but if it is a scheduled process then
> it may possibly have too much latency before getting a timeslice.
...
> Can anybody provide me a sanity check here? Will I be invoking a single
> instance of pppd that will handle all 24 modems, or 24 instances of pppd
> with 1 modem each, or some other configuration? And do you forsee any
> problems with this setup?
There will be 24 pppd processes, but that does not mean much. The heavy duty
codes will be in the kernel, not just ppp, but all the networking overheads.
The question is whether your embedded processor can handle 24 networking
tasks. Anyway, what is the cost of embedded processors verse modems? Why do
you need to have all the modems handled by a single processor?
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From: Andrey Vlasov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Color printer advise seek
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 14:05:11 -0700
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Hi George,
I beleive that you can be intrested in my mail exchange with Kevin.
$139 Epson 740 colour inkjet 1440dpi printer (after $75
mail-in rebate Ends 7/31)
$199 Epson C860 colour inkjet printer 1440 dpi (after $75
mail-in rebate Ends 7/31)
Price in Canadian dollars http://www.a-power.com
Andrey
====================================
Hi Kevin,
I just got your message. Ok, I will try to do what you ask only it is a
question how I can send a print-out to you? Yes it is a
really problem -
I have one printed in front of me right now and what I should do with
it?
Scan (what resolution I should use to reflect reality) and send it to
you - probably you will not believe that it was printed on
my Epson - but I'd like to remark that to print this photo I did:
1. Picture with my wife in Kazakhstan Charyn place - scanned photo which
was a little degraded and put on webpage. I was
looking for a picture to make a test gimp-print plugin and randomly
choose this one. So picture came through several stages
before it was printed. This printed photo almost twice bigger of
original.
REMARK: Photo was scanned in Linux on UMAX 2400S scanner.
http://members.xoom.com/_XMCM/faeton2000/html/charyn07.html
2. Second picture was made with digital camera Toshiba PRD-5, already
here in Vancouver Canada. The picture came
through same stages as first one.
With very close view you still will able to find some very small
rectangles on second picture, but it is because it was
converted to JPG with lower quality for web. Really it is very difficult
to see this rectangles from distance in 10-15cm from
picture. When my friend printed his wedding picture on glossy paper I
could not recognize that it is not real photo but
printed picture - picture was so good. And not only me took this printed
picture for original but many people.
At the moment I am at work and it brings some inconvenience - where to
scan the picture? Ok, will see may be I will find a
little later or will take it to home to scan and send it to you.
Ok, now what I tried to do:
First of all I need to mention that I use kernel 2.4-test4 at the moment
but I believe that it is not related to this case as
printed connected through parallel port and I do not use USB for this
purpose yet. I could but this is my wife's computer
where I make my experiments with Linux and new kernel. Sometimes I had
to left her with computer an electronic
dictionary alone. Yes, still english is not our native language, our
native language is russian and we immigrate to Canada
because in our country life became terrible.
Ok, first what I try was
http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=62112
it was good for printed text but for photos it was not acceptable (may
because I used a normal paper and it blur picture -
paper became just wet)
Now there was added new link for exactly this model of printer
http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=80896
One day I found gimp-print plugin info on http://freshmeat.net
http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/
and I decided to give a try. And you know first print gave a good result
on normal paper, I was surprise as I did not expected
it. I decided try better resolution and I got wet and blurred picture
but something said me that it is matter of paper not a
printed. I had glossed paper and I decided give a try. To my biggest
surprise I got very perfect picture that I could not believe
in that. As the picture took only half A4 (I took it from web, and it
was scanned at 150 dpi and converted in jpg format)
I decided to print another picture (taken by digital camera) on another
half and got same result. Really I was happy to see
that perfect printer work under Linux and it prints perfect pictures.
For now except of that hardware which I described I have installed
Firewire card and use it together with Sony DSR TVR740
digital camcorder. It works - I can save to disk a film but problem to
process it yet exists. Just for now I do it in Windows,
but in August they promised that Broadcast 2000 will work with IEEE1394
(Firewire cards) and I hope that I will be able to
download film strait into this software. But unfortunately there will no
way to put edited film back to tape for same period
of time. I still believe that as it is matter of software to support DV
format it will solved easier because hardware part
already operational.
COMPUTER:
MB: ASUS P2B
MEM: PC100 128MB
Video: Matrox G400 MAX
NIC: D-Link 530TX
SCSI: Tekram 315U
ATA100: Promice 100
HDD: Fijitsu 8GB ATA33
HDD: Maxstor 20GB ATA 100
CDROM: ATAPI 40x
DVDROM: Pioneer 16x40 IDE
Monitor: AOC 17"
Joystick: Logitech WingMan Extreme Digital 3D
Webcam: Logitech QuickCam? Express
Scanner: UMAX 2400S
Printer: Epson C860
NOTE: with Linux doesn't work only: Logitech QuickCam? Express
( Logitech do not give access to protocol specification )
PS: probably what I will do: scan picture (in 300 DPI) and provide you
with original pictures so that comparison was fair.
Andrey
Kevin Cosgrove wrote:
Andrey,
The Epson 860 sounds really good. Is there a chance that
you could tell me what you had to do to set this up? A
high level description is fine, since I've done this kind
of thing before. Is all that's needed is the gimp
plug-in? Now to ask a really BIG favor -- could you send
me an example print-out of a photo printed via linux on
your 860? I'd be ready to pay you for time, materials and
such. If the quality is high enough, I'd toss my new
HP 932C printer and buy an Epson like yours. I hope I'm
not imposing too much. Many thanks!
av> I have Epson 860 and I get very very good printed photos in Linux
it
av> is same what I get in Windows. There is another model which almost
av> the same but a little slower Epson 740 - you could think about it
av> in case if you'd like cheaper printer. Just to print photos use
av> gimp-photo plugin and you will see how good it is.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Would like to get an advise which color printer will best
> suit me, conidering next criterias:
>
> - Photographic quality, really important;
> - Not very frequent use, nor high speed needed;
> - Reliability
> - Not too expenive the ink;
> - Max $500.
>
> And a second question: how to get a second paralel port on
> a matsonic M727 board? - the first port is for my laser
> printer, where do I attach the second one?
>
> Thank, George
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Hi George,
<p>I beleive that you can be intrested in my mail exchange with Kevin.
<p>$139
Epson 740 colour inkjet 1440dpi printer (after $75 mail-in rebate Ends
7/31)
<br>$199
Epson C860 colour inkjet printer 1440 dpi (after $75 mail-in rebate Ends
7/31)
<p>Price in Canadian dollars <A
HREF="http://www.a-power.com">http://www.a-power.com</A>
<p>Andrey
<br>------------------------------------
<p>Hi Kevin,
<p>I just got your message. Ok, I will try to do what you ask only it is
a question how I can send a print-out to you? Yes it is a
<br>really problem -
<br>I have one printed in front of me right now and what I should do with
it?
<br>Scan (what resolution I should use to reflect reality) and send it
to you - probably you will not believe that it was printed on
<br>my Epson - but I'd like to remark that to print this photo I did:
<p>1. Picture with my wife in Kazakhstan Charyn place - scanned photo which
was a little degraded and put on webpage. I was
<br>looking for a picture to make a test gimp-print plugin and randomly
choose this one. So picture came through several stages
<br>before it was printed. This printed photo almost twice bigger of original.
<br>REMARK: Photo was scanned in Linux on UMAX 2400S scanner.
<p><A
HREF="http://members.xoom.com/_XMCM/faeton2000/html/charyn07.html">http://members.xoom.com/_XMCM/faeton2000/html/charyn07.html</A>
<p>2. Second picture was made with digital camera Toshiba PRD-5, already
here in Vancouver Canada. The picture came
<br>through same stages as first one.
<p>With very close view you still will able to find some very small rectangles
on second picture, but it is because it was
<br>converted to JPG with lower quality for web. Really it is very difficult
to see this rectangles from distance in 10-15cm from
<br>picture. When my friend printed his wedding picture on glossy paper
I could not recognize that it is not real photo but
<br>printed picture - picture was so good. And not only me took this printed
picture for original but many people.
<p>At the moment I am at work and it brings some inconvenience - where
to scan the picture? Ok, will see may be I will find a
<br>little later or will take it to home to scan and send it to you.
<p>Ok, now what I tried to do:
<p>First of all I need to mention that I use kernel 2.4-test4 at the moment
but I believe that it is not related to this case as
<br>printed connected through parallel port and I do not use USB for this
purpose yet. I could but this is my wife's computer
<br>where I make my experiments with Linux and new kernel. Sometimes I
had to left her with computer an electronic
<br>dictionary alone. Yes, still english is not our native language, our
native language is russian and we immigrate to Canada
<br>because in our country life became terrible.
<p>Ok, first what I try was
<p><A
HREF="http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=62112">http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=62112</A>
<p>it was good for printed text but for photos it was not acceptable (may
because I used a normal paper and it blur picture -
<br>paper became just wet)
<p>Now there was added new link for exactly this model of printer
<p><A
HREF="http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=80896">http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=80896</A>
<p>One day I found gimp-print plugin info on <A
HREF="http://freshmeat.net">http://freshmeat.net</A>
<p><A HREF="http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/">http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/</A>
<p>and I decided to give a try. And you know first print gave a good result
on normal paper, I was surprise as I did not expected
<br>it. I decided try better resolution and I got wet and blurred picture
but something said me that it is matter of paper not a
<br>printed. I had glossed paper and I decided give a try. To my biggest
surprise I got very perfect picture that I could not believe
<br>in that. As the picture took only half A4 (I took it from web, and
it was scanned at 150 dpi and converted in jpg format)
<br>I decided to print another picture (taken by digital camera) on another
half and got same result. Really I was happy to see
<br>that perfect printer work under Linux and it prints perfect pictures.
<p>For now except of that hardware which I described I have installed Firewire
card and use it together with Sony DSR TVR740
<br>digital camcorder. It works - I can save to disk a film but problem
to process it yet exists. Just for now I do it in Windows,
<br>but in August they promised that Broadcast 2000 will work with IEEE1394
(Firewire cards) and I hope that I will be able to
<br>download film strait into this software. But unfortunately there will
no way to put edited film back to tape for same period
<br>of time. I still believe that as it is matter of software to support
DV format it will solved easier because hardware part
<br>already operational.
<p>COMPUTER:
<p>MB: ASUS P2B
<br>MEM: PC100 128MB
<br>Video: Matrox G400 MAX
<br>NIC: D-Link 530TX
<br>SCSI: Tekram 315U
<br>ATA100: Promice 100
<br>HDD: Fijitsu 8GB ATA33
<br>HDD: Maxstor 20GB ATA 100
<br>CDROM: ATAPI 40x
<br>DVDROM: Pioneer 16x40 IDE
<br>Monitor: AOC 17"
<br>Joystick: Logitech WingMan Extreme Digital 3D
<br>Webcam: Logitech QuickCam? Express
<br>Scanner: UMAX 2400S
<br>Printer: Epson C860
<p>NOTE: with Linux doesn't work only: Logitech QuickCam? Express
<br> ( Logitech do not give access to protocol
specification )
<p>PS: probably what I will do: scan picture (in 300 DPI) and provide you
with original pictures so that comparison was fair.
<p>Andrey
<p>Kevin Cosgrove wrote:
<p> Andrey,
<p> The Epson 860
sounds really good. Is there a chance that
<br> you could tell
me what you had to do to set this up? A
<br> high level description
is fine, since I've done this kind
<br> of thing before.
Is all that's needed is the gimp
<br> plug-in?
Now to ask a really BIG favor -- could you send
<br> me an example
print-out of a photo printed via linux on
<br> your 860?
I'd be ready to pay you for time, materials and
<br> such.
If the quality is high enough, I'd toss my new
<br> HP 932C printer
and buy an Epson like yours. I hope I'm
<br> not imposing
too much. Many thanks!
<p> av> I have Epson 860 and I get very very good printed photos
in Linux it
<br> av> is same what I get in Windows. There is another model which
almost
<br> av> the same but a little slower Epson 740 - you could think
about it
<br> av> in case if you'd like cheaper printer. Just to print photos
use
<br> av> gimp-photo plugin and you will see how good it is.
<br>
<p>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE> Hello,
<p> Would like to get an advise
which color printer will best
<br> suit me, conidering next
criterias:
<p> - Photographic quality, really
important;
<br> - Not very frequent use,
nor high speed needed;
<br> - Reliability
<br> - Not too expenive the ink;
<br> - Max $500.
<p> And a second question: how
to get a second paralel port on
<br> a matsonic M727 board? -
the first port is for my laser
<br> printer, where do I attach
the second one?
<p> Thank, George</blockquote>
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From: Scott Bradley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Xerox XE Series (WorkCentre XE80 Specifically): Forget
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 21:08:14 GMT
Reading over the specifications a little more closely, I saw that the
"emulator" is "Windows Printing; GDI" so it is a Windows printer.
Oh well.
SB
Scott Bradley wrote:
>
> Before anyone points it out unnecessarily, I already know that the Linux
> Printing HOWTO says that the XE80 is a paperweight. However, I still
> would like to explore ways to get it working since there is not much
> information available on what has been done up to this point.
>
> Has anyone seen any attempts or workarounds to getting this series of
> printers working under Linux? Or does anyone know why they do not
> work? I did not think it was a Winprinter, though from the platforms it
> works on this might be suspect (though they made a driver or something
> for Win3.1, which is odd if it is a Winprinter).
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Scott Bradley AIM:scotbrad1 ICQ:5537123
> Free Physics Project (http://freephysics.sourceforge.net)
>
> Hanton's Razer: Never attribute too malice that witch can
> adequitely be explained buy stupidness.
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