Re: HP 692C Configuration

1999-10-08 Thread longship
The HP 692C uses PCL 3, as does almost all the HP ink jets of recent years. This means that the 690 series will use any printer definition that also uses PCL 3. I'd pick the closest HP printer to the features of the 69x and go with it. It works for me. In other words, PCL 3 is PCL 3 is PCL 3.

Re: Sound Blaster Live!

1999-10-06 Thread longship
Andrea, Please don't waste your money on the SB Live. This card is on the list of cards without open source support because Creative refuses to release the information necessary to construct a driver. Buying this card doesn't help our case to get Creative to release the programming specs. There

Re: PCI Soundcard

1999-10-05 Thread longship
> On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, Shannon wrote: > > > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] write > > s: > > > > > The best bargain in the business has got to be the Creative Ensoniq > > > PCI128. I bought a card at CompUSA for under $30.00. It's based on > > > the ENS1371 chipset and works we

Eureka--LyX 1.0.4 on Slink

1999-10-04 Thread longship
Hi, Here's how to get the latest Lyx running with Slink. 1. Download LyX 1.0.4 source tarball via link on http://www.lyx.org/ 2. Make sure that the following are installed from the Stable (Slink) directories. All sgml components. I included the following: debiandoc-sgml perlsgm

Re: PCI Soundcard

1999-10-03 Thread longship
> Hi All, > I'm looking for a good PCI soundcard for my new computer. Preferably > non-PnP, although I can work with it if necessary. I would like it to > work under OS/2, Linux, and Win95 (for games). Are there any suggestions? > Thanks > The best bargain in the business has got to be the Cre

Re: Slink to Potato

1999-10-01 Thread longship
> http://www.internatif.org/bortzmeyer/debian/apt-sources/ This is the type of information that should be linked to on the Debian host site. One should not have to come to the Mailing Lists to find this. The logical place to put this is with the Gnome Slink update link. I can see that much of

Re: Slink to Potato

1999-10-01 Thread longship
> On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 08:17:41AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > How are you doing this? Do you just go get the packages and 'dpkg -i' them > > or do you use apt? There are a bunch of things I want to upgrade on my > > system but I assumed that all of the potato packages would have depend

Re: Slink to Potato

1999-10-01 Thread longship
> When I asked a similar question a long time ago (but still when slink > was stable!) it was explained to me thusly: if you start modifying > "stable", then you might break it. That means that if one permitted > regular modifications/upgrades to stable packages, one would have to > go through th

Re: Slink to Potato

1999-10-01 Thread longship
> Well, it's a bit better than that - particularly if you keep up with the > various lists (mostly -user and -devel) you should be all right. It's > more a case of "pay attention and be prepared to fix things if they > break" than anything else. I'd guess that a fair proportion of > developers ar

Re: Slink to Potato

1999-10-01 Thread longship
> I've been slowly upgrading my packages from slink to potato, and > frankly, have never had a single problem. I was nervous about upgrading > perl, because I've seen all sorts of veiled references to possible > hosage (although I've never seen a concise statement of the actual > problem), but eve

Slink to Potato

1999-10-01 Thread longship
Hi, I know that the basic issues of my question have been asked many times here previously. But, time goes on and things change. Maybe this all too important issue needs to be addressed again. When I talked with some Debian folks at Linux World, they indicated that Potato was fairly stable and