Firstly, I would like to thank the people who had provided answers to the
questions that have been bothering me much. Right now, I've got a lovely
true colour GUI and a monitor that doesn't even think of flickering, and
also a working soundcard and full support for my voodoo 2 card - none ov
which ever happened in Slackware/Dragon (I remember my first three months
in Linux spent in the numbing minimalist comfort ov Thee Console - that,
mesdames et messieurs, had been the period of intense struggle and strain,
and if it hadn't been for the help of the people on the
dragonlinux-support egroup, I wouldn't have achieved anything at all).
But that's all pretty much irrelevant. The thing that never had worked
under any distro of Linux at all is my Okipage 6W printer. The driver you
can find for the thing, "oki4drv" was originally meant to be used with Oki
4, as the name rightly suggests, and Oki8; however, it is supposed to be
able to get the printer to work at a 300x300 dpi and only if you feed it
one page at a time. Which is fine with me. After all the time done in the
grim reign of The Blue Screen And The Hourglass I am happy with any system
that is efficient, even if I can bear with a few inconveniences. But the
thing is that the driver doesn't work at all. I find that terribly sad, me
dears. Terribly sad indeed. The sheet of paper has no problems getting
into the printer, which churns it out in its primordial pristine
whiteness. And that's bloody well that. I mean, you type something like
oki4drv aneris_holds_me_by_the_bollocks.txt
wait
the sheet cometh in, the sheet cometh out... anything written there? Nada.
Is there any way of getting thw thing to work? There are still some 700
megs of hdd space wasted on FAT32, and that's where an ugly win95 OS
lives, though calling that an operating system is an insult to the
collective intelligence of all the people capable of actually grasping the
concept of an "operating system"; win is anything but operating. They must
find a new name for it, you can send your suggestions. Anyway. Any way of
making the monstrosity useful other than having to reboot into winbloze
and printing the stuff there? It's a humiliation.
23/93
Hail Eris!
Pope Mickey The Twenty-Third, Patron Saint Of All Potheads Running Linux.
