Hey Michael,
Thanks for the advice, I am running an Epson LX 810 9 pin dot matrix right now,
it is behind the curve , but the price of $25
U.S. was rIght. I guess I could run that in " compatability mode" please
enlighten me, what is " compatability mode" ? I have always used a generic
Epson 9 pin driver with the ' Doze, and my print quality with true type fonts
such as " Times New Roman" has been acceptable. I'm not a font freak , just TNR
and a sans serif are plenty for me. Thanx
CR
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michael jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 12/19/99 10:41:55 AM
To: c rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
cc: linux newbie list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (bcc: Thomas C.
Rogers/DSC)
Subject: Re: seibweN....seibweN
c rogers wrote:
> Hey Richard,
> thanks for the swift reply, I had the boot disks, I did make them, in fact I
> made three sets in case there were bad copies, I got in and have the boot
> problem conquored, it was a misconfiguration of the LILO in the MBR due to a
> previous installation of the R.H. 5.2 2.0.38, removal and installation of
> That Turbo Linux, and reinstallation of R.H. 5.2 2.0.38. Now in an attempt
> to configure the sound card, I am once again up that creek, sans paddle.
> Running on a Cyrix M II 333 MMX processor ATI 3D Rage II c AGP graphics
> card, and Crystal CS 423X Sound chip MDU IRQ. I try auto probe and it fails
> to configure the card. Trying the manual set up, it asks for the DIP switch
> settings. I suppose this means that I must take the computer apart and see
> what these settings are. Is that what I must do in order to configure the
> card ?
if you didn't change anything when you installed it, you may be able to get the
factory "default" settings from the mfg's website and use those. this could
save
you the trouble of opening the case.
> Do you think that I am also going to have to take my printer apart
> when I come to that part of it ?
i found the dot matrix printers usually can be run in a compatibility mode,
ie EPSON or IBM or something like that. i've run a few lasers printers too.
if you have a real new color inkjet, those are outside the scope of my
experience.
i have read that people have them working well also though. what kind do
you have? maybe someone on the list has that model and can help you.
> My modem is a 3 COM U.S. Robotics 56K PNP
> fax modem. Do you think that I will have to do some arcane things to it,
> like change the jumpers to get it to work ?
if it's an ISA PNP you might not have to. you can try 'man isapnp' and it will
explain how to setup your card. or you could opt to set the jumpers manually.
if it's a PCI PNP, well AFAIK it will not work at all. well, as a modem anyway.
i have read that there has been some work to use the PCI modems as pagers and
and to answer the phone for other prgrams to use. but not as a modem. read
/usr/doc/Modem-HOWTO .
>
> Thankx for the guidance, I was able to get an acceptable GUI mess running at
> one time from the directions on this list, still trying to print and get
> online. CR
>
> >
> >---------------------- Forwarded by Thomas C. Rogers/DSC on 12/19/99 07:03
> AM
> >---------------------------
>
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