On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, Ged Haywood wrote: > If anyone out there has experience of using Debian and USB will they > please speak up now? I'm particularly interested if you have seen > differences between the performance of Debian and other Linux on the > same hardware.
Ok, you might be right. I was using SuSE on this PC before, and had problems with my USB printer - it would print for some time, and then the image would corrupt. Then I switched to Debian and now it prints stably. It's a Lexmark Z25 printer with a proprietary (user space) driver, so, I was blaming it for my problems... The funny thing is, that they do not support Debian at all, and the installation script uses RPM to install drivers, so, I had to trick it. That was still with 2.4.x. As I switched to 2.6, I had to install a newer version of th driver (no, it doesn't mention 2.6), which now uses CUPS. And again - it just works. But this I didn't try under SuSE any more. OTOH, the other my USB device, that migrated from SuSE to Debian is a camera, and it works exactly as well or as bad under Debian as it did under SuSE. VIA USB 1.1 with a Duron 900MHz. On the other PC with a P133 I have a VIA USB 2.0 PCI card, also Debian, also works. Never tried anything else there with USB though. Now got 2 card-rw's (1.1 and 2.0) and a 2.0 hub - all work ok on both machines. Guennadi --- Guennadi Liakhovetski ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
