Printer, Sound card
I have had Debian for about two years and never have been able to get my printer configured. Everytime I try to print I get operation not supported by device from the command line and a reference to character modules not found in xconsole. So I thought , let me try another Distro that's based on Debian and see if I have more luck. I was extremely impressed by the install in the sense that it was fast and set up my software efficiently, but I still have the same problems with hardware- the printer doesn't respond and the sound cards, an Ensoniq Vivio and an Alsa 120 act like they aren't there. Only my pnpdump says they are there. I have never been able to get my sound to work no matter what distribution of linux I work with. I could screw with the kernel, but it didn't work with Debian, so I have no reason to think that it will work with Corel. Can anyone tell me why they think my devices are not working properly? __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: Printer, Sound card
Hi there, it doesn't matter what distribution you use to get things things working because you have to do the same things for each distribution that you try. to get things like sound and printing you have to compile them into the kernel. I forget the exact configuration to get things working. but let me make some wild guesses. choose experimental drivers. in geveral setup choose parrellel support and the option that it spawns choose plug'n'play devices choose the thing under thing goto character devices and choose printer support and bingo you have printing for sound go to sound and pick your card you might want to go and do a lspci -a to show you what your sound card's chipset is and other settings. for software to print you probably want to get magic-filter and lpr or something like that. get sound players. you didn't indicate what the version of the kernel you are using or what you did to the kernel when using debian. I hope this is some help to you. Paul On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Eric Hagglund wrote: I have had Debian for about two years and never have been able to get my printer configured. Everytime I try to print I get operation not supported by device from the command line and a reference to character modules not found in xconsole. So I thought , let me try another Distro that's based on Debian and see if I have more luck. I was extremely impressed by the install in the sense that it was fast and set up my software efficiently, but I still have the same problems with hardware- the printer doesn't respond and the sound cards, an Ensoniq Vivio and an Alsa 120 act like they aren't there. Only my pnpdump says they are there. I have never been able to get my sound to work no matter what distribution of linux I work with. I could screw with the kernel, but it didn't work with Debian, so I have no reason to think that it will work with Corel. Can anyone tell me why they think my devices are not working properly? __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Printer, Sound card
Hay Eric, without details on what you tried and what you have it's a bit difficult to guess what anwser you need:) But I like guessing so... You need a driver to be able to print. In stock debian systems such a driver is compiled as a module named lp. You have to tell the system to use this module. To do so run as root: # modconf select misc and then lp You are then allowed to enter some parameters to the lp module. Depending on your hardware you might try something like io=0,irq=7 This tells the lp module to look for a parellel printer and find the port himself and use irq 7. If your printer-port uses a different irq fill that one in (you can check the printerport setting under Windows:) Now it must be possible as root to do things like # echo hallo /dev/lp0 (replace lp0 with lp1 if you are running an older version of debian) If this works it's about time to install an lp daemon, e.g. lprng, and a printer filter, e.g. magicfilter. Hopes this helps, otherwise try giving us more details:) -- groetjes, carel
