[H-GEN] newbie help - getting there!

[Sarah Hollings]

Mike,

Ta heaps for the excellent general low-down on printing.  Can see a
learning curve ahead for that.  I am looking at your Norfolk site right
now.

Mike Andrew wrote:
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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)

Seems to be working heaps now - 'cept for the "white noise" problem (see
other post).  It's an on board Avance ALS100 chipset, on an Octek m/b.  

>  > 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.

Have had a look in printcap and it looks sort of OK (not that I'm real
sure what I'm looking for).  I cat'ed it out to a textfile (attached) if
you have time to take a quick look.

> 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.

I couldn't see where/how to do this.
> 
> >
> > 3: Periodic mouse problems.  Occasionally on boot-up, I have no mouse.
> 
> turn usb off in your cmos

My system is an ancient steam-driven Pentium 133 with no usb.  I noticed
that the mouse *always* disappeared if I bootup with the modem powered
up (it's on the other serial port).
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# printcap file containing the currently set up printers, generated by KPrint control tool
# the "lp" entry is replicating the default printer's info, it is not a seperate entry

##PRINTTOOL3## LOCAL cdj670 300x300 a4 {} DeskJet670 Default {}
lp:\
	:sd=/var/spool/lpd/hp:\
	:mx#0:\
	:sh:\
	:if=/var/spool/lpd/hp/filter:\
	:lp=/dev/lp0:
##PRINTTOOL3## LOCAL cdj670 300x300 a4 {} DeskJet670 Default {}
hp:\
	:sd=/var/spool/lpd/hp:\
	:mx#0:\
	:sh:\
	:if=/var/spool/lpd/hp/filter:\
	:lp=/dev/lp0: