On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 11:19:10AM +0700, Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim wrote: | Hello: | | I have switched from RH to Debian recently (for my desktop). | Unfortunately, I still have two pending problems which | I had taken for granted while I was using RH:
Do you still have copy of your config files from RH? /etc/modules.conf and /etc/modules would be quite useful here :-). | - turning on the sound What sort of sound card do you have? You need to know what chipset it is based on so that you can load the proper modules into the kernel. You may also need to specify some options such as IO address and DMA channel. If you still have /etc/modules.conf from RH then this information will be in there. See 'man update-modules' for information on how to add that info to a Debian system. | - turning on the printer printer (my beloved ole' BJC-210SP) The first thing you need is to be sure the parallel port is enabled. Type '/sbin/lsmod | egrep "par|lp"' and see if you have the parport, parport_pc, and lp modules loaded. If so then you are all set with the kernel setup and you just need to pick and configure a print spooler for it. If you don't have those modules then you can add them to /etc/modules and they will be loaded automatically the next time you boot. For now you can use modprobe to load them so you don't need to reboot yet. For a print spooler I like CUPS. I don't know if a "driver" (PPD file) is available for it or not, but there are some sites that provide a lot of these drivers and they may have yours. RH used LPRng and magicfilter in their recent releases, but I don't know how to configure it without printtool doing all the dirty work. HTH, -D
