Various Help Needed on SuSE (8.1) Install

[Duane Attaway]

On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Robert Johnson wrote:

> 1.) Regarding 'Are you using CUPS for your printer driver?'

There are two printer drives for linux: cups and lpr.  I'm not a GUI fan 
as everyone has wildly differently changing interfaces each month, but you 
can easily find out what you have from the command line:

ps aux | grep cupsd
ps aux | grep lpr

One of those commands will tell you if you have either service currently
running.  Cups has a nice web based interface that can be accessed by the 
port it leaves open for your local machine:

http://localhost:631/

Chances are you are using cups, since it is easy to use for beginners.  
Lpr is easily accessed through the command line.

> 2.) 'There is also a Lucent driver out that may work with many
> winmodems.' 

The following page might illustrate your winmodem choices:

http://www.idir.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html

> 'I believe you may use the i810 driver for xfree.' Where do I go to
> locate these drivers so I can download/install them?

These drivers are all included within xfree.  Many people use different 
configruation programs for X.  There are many.  Mine is a command line 
utility and might frighten little children (xf86config.)  I'm not sure 
what fancy GUI utility people use these days (Xconfigurator?)

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