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On Sun, 16 Mar 2008, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

> Message from Steven
> ===================
> Sindi wrote:
> > I have not bothered printing from Abiword or Opera.

What I meant was I got lpd working with both of these (and xv)
but it only works for 'user' not 'root', which is a nuisance, and I was 
able to set them to use gs directly instead, which works with root.  It 
was a major operation to get BL to do everything with 'user'.  (It was 
also a nuisance setting up to use lpd).

But since I don't use Abiword, and I don't print entire websites 
(sometimes just the text content) I have no need to print from Opera or 
Abiword.   If I did, I could save a .ps file and print that with gs 
directly.

I just figured out why I cannot use floppy BL, ramdisk BL, or loop BL to 
boot from a hard disk plugged into an add-in PCI IDE controller - there is 
no hde.  We have a board with dead IDE controllers.  The solution may be 
to stick the drive into another computer and add hde hdf hdg and hdh 
partitions.   Perhaps future BLs could at least have hde1-4.

We have another computer which had 10 leaking capacitors, and which still 
fails memtest the first few times, and crashes within a few minutes with 
two versions of Windows, but has worked fine with linux, probably because 
we did not use much memory.  Memtest was failing at around 284MB.  Linux 
could be set to use only 128MB of the 512MB DDR.  mem=128M.

Sindi

> I print from both AbiWord and Opera
> (using lpd on BL2).
>
> Cheers,
> Steven