[H-GEN] newbie help

[Mike Andrew]

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On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Sarah Hollings wrote:
> 1: Sound.  Corel uses the kde desktop (on top of what is basically a

This is almost certain to be an issue with your specific sound card, please
specify the type. (make model isa / pci / glued on board, etc)

 > 2: System printing.  KDE's choose a printer thing says I

printing in linux is a nightmare to the newly introduced because it is a
different concept. you print to print filters which produce Linux's
internal printer format otherwise known as postcript. it is postrctipt that is
conveyed around the system. One of the very final acts in this is to convert
postscript to a print driver suitable to your printer, and then, finally, send
to a given printer port. If your confused by this, you should be. There is no
means in linux to print to a printer port as the concept does not exist. You
print to print-filter-names.

lpr by default prints to the first print-filter-name declared in /etc/printcap.
By convention the name is 'lp' but that rarely is the case.

For your specific printer, you need to specify lpr -Pxxxxx where xxxxx is the
print-filter-name installed by you or the system. Your garbage output is likely
to be cause by the first print-filter-name being defined as a 'raw' printer
device.

> 
> 3: Periodic mouse problems.  Occasionally on boot-up, I have no mouse. 

turn usb off in your cmos
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