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Re: Printer and Sound Difficulties



> The only problems I am having is getting some hardware working
> correctly.  The first item is my printer, a HP Deskjet 682C.  When
> printing things I often get unexplainable errors where the printer
> just stops working and the error light starts flashing.  Removing,
> cleaning and reinserting the printer cartriges seems to fix the
> problem some of the time but this is a hassle and doesn't always work.

Are you using the magicfilter package? If not, then do so.
 
> The second problem is sound.  I recently got a SB16 PNP card and it
> appears to be correctly configured with no apparent errors.  Despite
> this, no sound ever comes out of the speakers.  Not being very good
> with sound, I'm at a loss here.

Have you compiled sound support in? see Marcus' excellent soundblaster
HOWTO as well.

HTH,

Matthew

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