On Sun, 28 Oct 2001 00:07:43 -0700, Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just upgraded to WindowsXP, for those who even care, and it went smoothly. > Runs faster than ME and is very stable and solid. The usual applications that > would crash ME without fail didn't even make XP hiccup. > > Two things though in both Linux and XP I just can't get my ancient external > parallel port CDwriter to work automatically. With XP I have to wait until HP > puts the download on their website, which I had to to with my scanner with > ME, and so far with Linux the information I found requires me to play with > some settings which I am more than willing to learn just hard to find the > time lately. > > As far as the Luna interface being a rip of Apple's Aqua, not with all the > wishful thinking and eye squinting does it look like Aqua. I still enjoy > Linux's adaptability for making the Aqua theme much nicer than to enjoy > without tying it to a premium system. > > If anyone wishes to drop me a hint on the CDwriter issue or a link for the > truly "RAW" newbie I would appreciate it very much.
Try http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/CD-Writing-HOWTO.html Try checking the hardware database at linux.com as well. I used to have such a drive, but I've forgotten how I got it to work. I vaguely remember having to load a paride kernel module, and enabling SCSI emulation over IDE. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan "The "p_page" should be a "b_page". Duh." -- Linus Torvalds
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