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?
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