Printing problems

2003-07-21 Thread frank brierley
Hi all, I have a HP deskjet 640c attached to a freebsd 4.8 box. This printer doesn't do plain text real easy, something to do with carrage return and line feed. There are a few simple printing filters on the web that help print plain text with lpd, but ghostscript has me beaten. There is a p

Re: second cd drive only detected occasonally

2003-07-20 Thread frank brierley
com> wrote: frank brierley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I have a DVD drive as secondary slave (IDE) and a cd burner as secondary master. Both drives are detected by BIOS and by windows. However freebsd assignes a device to the cd burner (samsung) only every now and then. Checking dmesg and on

second cd drive only detected occasonally

2003-07-17 Thread frank brierley
Hi, I have a DVD drive as secondary slave (IDE) and a cd burner as secondary master. Both drives are detected by BIOS and by windows. However freebsd assignes a device to the cd burner (samsung) only every now and then. Checking dmesg and only acd0 will usually appear. After a reboot there i

second cd drive sound

2003-07-15 Thread frank brierley
Hi, I have a freebsd 4.8 machine a dvd player and a cd writer installed. Freebsd can mount data disks on both drives /dev/acd0c and /dev/acd1a - I'm not sure what the 'a' and 'c' do. Both drives have the audio lines attached to the system board, one into the normal cd jack and the other into