suse 8.2 networking

[Matthew Carpenter]

Wow, dep.  You found more problems than I did.  My biggest problem with Printing has had to do with setting the Paper size to Letter from A4 (which I think was resolved by setting it both in the "Driver" settings as well as the "Printer" settings...  Wierd.  

I can't say I'm much of an Opera fan either... they say that you either love Opera or hate Opera, and if you don't love it, you will only ever develop a mild appreciation for it.  Me, I prefer good old fashion plays and musicals. :)  I honestly prefer Konqueror as a browser, but do find myself occasionally bringing up Mozilla or NS4.7 to get compatibility, most often with appliances' web guis (Cisco couldn't keep code up to date to save their lives).

I'm cornfused about the printer drivers, since they are primarily from CUPS.  Two other things I found out about Printing in SuSE: 
1) Make sure you have the right driver.  My HPLJiii Si, which looks like a volkswagon and sounds like an F16, prints a very crisp and clear picture with the driver approved for the HPiiiSi, and sits idle with the HP3Si driver, even thought the Queue somehow empties itself.
2) Let Yast2 handle printer config...

acpi=off lets my laptop handle APM stuff the way I know it should.  Otherwise I get a message about some incomplete ACPI implementation in the BIOS.  Stupid Compaq :)

> ah, yes. the great "nothing works with 8.1" bug. red hat at least had 
> the courtesy, back when it was shipping what it called gcc-2.96, to 
> break everything *equally.*<g>

It sounds like 8.2 is not the savior of the world.  Oh well, I guess there's always 8.3 :)


> | * Audacity 1.1.3cvs which ships with the 8.1 has a bug recording in
> | stereo.
> 
> really? a buzzing bug or a chirping one? and how does it sound in 
> stereo -- does it move back and forth or anything?<g>

Worse: The Left channel records somewhat less than the Right channel, leaving them out of sync.  It's pretty interesting to hear them echo each other after a half hour of recording.  :)
 
> | * MPlayer doesn't do Encrypted DVD's and other "gelded" apps. 
> | Simply visit packman.links2linux.de and download the full-featured
> | RPMS and dependencies.
> 
> that's a legal issue that i do not think will be going away anytime 
> soon.

Write your congressman in support of the DMCRA.  Digital Millenium Consumers' Rights Act.  It has specific language (beyond the overall return of Reasonable Use detailed throughout it) which would allow the use of such technologies to make CSS decoding available on Linux in a free form.

> well, i am unimpressed with their support, but otherwise i think your 
> evaluation is right. though i do think there is enough stuff broken 
> that i intend to wait another two years before upgrading again, once 
> it all gets straightened out.

I've got enough machines to figure out whether it's good for me yet or not.  I'm most likely going to purchase 8.2 for a couple copies and just use 8.1 (which I haven't bought yet) if 8.2 doesn't do what I need.
> 8.2 via ftp became available just now.

Cool

> | Let me know if I can help troubleshoot with you.  The networking
> | thing prompted some questions in my head but I thought I'd check to
> | see if you got them straightened out before launching into that
> | discussion.
> 
> the networking stuff got fixed, but the printer is killing me 
> (especially now that there is a linux word processor that i mostly 
> *like.*)

Really, what's that?

About the printer, write me offlist and tell me the details about the printer, and what printer filter you can normally get to drive your printer correctly with.  If it's lpd's print filter, you can still use it.  Printing has come a long ways for Linux... but apparently not long enough yet :)

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Matthew Carpenter
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