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[Ron Clarke <ariadne AT acepia.net.au>]

Hi Steven,

On Fri, 2 Jan 2004 17:30:36 +1300
3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> Ron Clarke wrote:
> >
> >  And I have given up trying.  
> 
> Really?  We had only just started working on your printer.

   Ah !  I must have misunderstood.  
 
> > No matter what I did, I always get:
> >     "unknown printer"
> 
> I wish you had reported that error before giving up.
> It would have given us something to work with.

   I thought I had.

> When exactly do you get "unknown printer"?
> When you do the insmods?

    No. That seems to go without a hitch.

> When you do the lpd?

    No.

> When you try to print something?   With lpr?

    Yes, and all subsequent attemps to use lpr.

> I suspect that the "unknown printer" arises because 
> your printer device is not being found.  When you do 
> the insmods, what lp device does it activate?  lp0?  lp1?

   lp0

> That device (lp0/lp1) must be the same in your /etc/printcap
> -------------             -------------
> :lp=/dev/lp0:    -or-     :lp=/dev/lp1:      
> -------------             -------------
> Please note:  the initial lp on that line is *not* changed,
> nor is the initial lp on the first line.
> 
> For your printer to work, your /etc/printcap must be perfect
> (and lpd must be started subsequent to any changes).  Even a 
> small typographical error can stop everything working. If you 
> seriously want to get this working, please make an exact copy 
> of your /etc/printcap and show it to us.

    It is attached.
 
> > And with all respect, both PRINT- and USAGE-HOWTO's did not 
> > shed any light on the problem.
> 
> Then, why didn't you ask here?  I realize that Sindi has asked
> several questions about this topic, but her situation is not the
> same as yours.

   Seems that some of my queries have gone astray - my ISP's mail server is
sometimes a little flakey.   :(

> > If I ever, EVER, consider moving my business from DOS to 
> > Linux, it would have to be with a working (and printing) 
> > Linux word processer.  
> 
> At no time have I suggested that people should run a business
> on BasicLinux.  BasicLinux is just a mini-distribution.  Adding
> applications to BasicLinux requires quite a bit of knowledge.
> Perhaps you should use a fuller version of Linux, that includes
> the desired applications by default (with a user-friendly wizard
> to configure them correctly)?

   I am looking to the future, rather than, say, this year.  And I AM adding
extra applications to BasicLinux 2.1, including sound (playing of MP3s at 
least),
xanim (poor quality mpeg player), RealPlayer8 (and this is a real success,
believe it or not, now that I have more colours in icewm), and the extra
browsers, xpdf, gv, ImageMagic.


> /etc/XF86Config
> 
> > that has "colordepth" as an  editable parameter. 
> 
> -------------------------------------
> Section "Screen"                                                            
>    
>    Driver          "Accel"                                                  
>    
>    Device          "Primary Card"                                           
>    
>    Monitor         "Primary Monitor"                                        
>    
>    DefaultColorDepth 16                                                     
>    
> -------------------------------------

   Not in my version of that.

> 
> > I still get icewm changing to unreadable colours when I place
> > the mouse over any application (like Links-colour, Display, XPDF, 
> > RealPlayer8), and anything run in an xterm is in black and white 
> > and almost unreadable  (e.g. MC, Camp, xaumix).
> 
> Which Xserver are you using?  The default Xserver (VGA16) is 
> not the best.  You will get a much more attractive screen display 
> if you install (1) an Xserver with better resolution and (2) some 
> additional font packages.

   I am using xsvga, and it now works just fine. My video card is a Diamond 
Stealth 3D 2000, and the recommended Xserver is xsvga.


> > BTW: I have found the easiest way to find stuff in MANIFEST.GZ 
> > is to view (F3) it with MC and use the search (F7) facility.
> 
> Links works the same way, except it is right-arrow to view
> and / to search.

   Yes it does - just tried it.  But I find MC easier to read that white text 
on
a black screen. I have asked before, but is there any way to make the CLI 
screen 
other than black ?  I tried editing the Dir-COLORS file, but it didn't change 
the 
background colours at all.

Regards,
         Ron

 
Ron Clarke 
AUSREG Consultancy      http://www.valylink.net.au/~ausreg/index.html
Tadpole Tunes           http://tadpole.mytunebook.de/
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