Quoting Robert G. Scofield ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
I snatched this from a post on a Debian list:
Once you have a 2.4 or 2.6 kernel installed, run (as root)
alsaconf. This should detect your sound card and do some of the basic
setup. With a bit of luck that might all you need.
Alsaconf is in
I've done a Sarge net install three times now, and it's quite an experience.
I get a different set of packages even when I choose the same stuff to
download. I don't have sound and I can't print. But I've got some stuff to
read on sound, and will try to take care of that on my own. But the
There are two things that should be simple and standardized in linux,
but definitely are not: sound and printing! Both are getting better if
you know what to do...
From my experience, cups is the way to go for printing. I highly
recommend the web interface for configuring, testing, and
On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 11:32:41AM -0800, Robert G. Scofield wrote:
I can't print from the GUI (Gnome in this case.) At first I could
print from the command line using the command lpr. But after
downloading the Cups packages lpr would not work. What would work
from the command line was
On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 03:24:17PM -0500, David Hummel wrote:
In the meantime, try lp.
Which will only work if the cupsys-client package is installed ;-)
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On Friday 28 January 2005 11:47, Jonathan Stickel wrote:
So if you haven't already, put
localhost:631 in your browser's location bar. If the cups daemon is
running, you should get a menu to start working CUPS. If you have a
printer correctly installed, clicking on the print test page for
Quoting Robert G. Scofield ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
I really can't believe that a fix to a Debian problem can be so easy. (And
I'm not sure exactly what the fix actually was.) So thanks Jonathan and
David.
Well, I try to accumulate in http://linuxmafia.com/kb/Debian/ fixes that
can be easy
On Friday 28 January 2005 17:59, Rick Moen wrote:
Quoting Robert G. Scofield ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Back when we all used oss-free, the simple fix was to
use the sndconfig package (RH-written, kindly placed under GPL by them,
and then packaged up for Debian and other distros). With ALSA, I don't
