Hello all,
I'm testing a Sun Ray 1 DTU in a SOHO environment, using SRSS 3.1.1
software on Debian Etch, set up according to the excellent how-to from
the guys at Erlangen (Germany) university. Kernels are 2.6.18-4 and
2.6.20-i686 (from backports.org)
The Sun USB-6 keyboard works perfectly with German keys, sound playback
works with the LD_PRELOAD wrapping command and XMMS and the alsa-oss
extensions, sound server turned off in KDE 3.5.5 (login through GDM).
- However, CUPS doesn't see the printer. I can use the USB printer
Kyocera FS-1020D only by doing
echo 'hello world' > /tmp/SUN...etc.$PRINTER
Is this a known problem or could this have to do with the current major
usb issue described recently for Ubuntu Feisty that makes a lot of
scanners invisible, and maybe my printer too on Etch, although "utusbrun
lsusb" does show it? Any ideas about CUPS? Success stories? In Erlangen
they print to networked printers, not USB.
- VMWare: On the host/server I run VMware with a legacy Windows client
my work depends on, and Dragon Dictate speech recognition.
With my setup I can start VMWare but it complains about missing XKB
extensions and, in another error message, about not being able to set
the proper resolution in case of a window resize.
I have have switched the extensions on and off with the utxconfig -k
command and in KDE but to no avail. Entering the password in W2K for the
preconfigured user login doesn't work due to wrong keycodes. A single
keystroke creates several dots at worst, or none, and backspace creates
more hidden password chars. Remote login from another Etch machine works
flawlessly.
Could anyone think of a solution or is it unsolvable for "low level"
setup reasons? Would Sun Rays work with ordinary keyboards and xkb-data
(non-legacy?), even if this means more work for configuration? Would the
new beta software make something easier?
Greetings,
Andreas v. Heydwolff
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