> The only problems I am having is getting some hardware working > correctly. The first item is my printer, a HP Deskjet 682C. When > printing things I often get unexplainable errors where the printer > just stops working and the error light starts flashing. Removing, > cleaning and reinserting the printer cartriges seems to fix the > problem some of the time but this is a hassle and doesn't always work.
Are you using the magicfilter package? If not, then do so. > The second problem is sound. I recently got a SB16 PNP card and it > appears to be correctly configured with no apparent errors. Despite > this, no sound ever comes out of the speakers. Not being very good > with sound, I'm at a loss here. Have you compiled sound support in? see Marcus' excellent soundblaster HOWTO as well. HTH, Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/