Re: Once burned...
As far as the 820 is concerned, the following is from the Ghostscript
printer compatibility page (www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/printer.html):
The HP DeskJet 720C, 722C, 820C and 1000C are PPA printers. They will
not work with the PCL drivers above. You are expected to use PPA
printers with a special Windows printer driver. You might be able to
use the Ghostscript mswinpr2 device which is only available under
Windows and talks to the Windows printer driver. A PPA driver for the
HP820C does exist for Ghostscript. It was written without access to
documentation. See ftp://ftp.ig.utexas.edu/outgoing/scottk/820C/
You'd have to compile your own ghostscript from the source code, adding
this driver, instead of just installing the Debian gs-aladdin package, but
it should work.
On Thu, 25 Jun 1998 neuwirth@pobox.com wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I hope this is the right list for utterly and incredibly new Linux newbies.
> I had another distribution my machine but it was too old to recognize most
> of my hardware to I gave it away. I'm waiting now for Debian 2 to start
> anew but I wanted to be sure my hardware will work with this one. Hope you
> can help.
>
> I have a Logitech TrackMan Marble (same connector as the standard PS/2 port
> mouse), an HP DeskJet 820 CSE on LPT1, an ATI Video Expression+ (Direct
> Draw) video card, and a Sound III 336SP Sound Card and 333 modem
> combination (OEM stuff). The other Linux either didn't recognize any of
> them or I couldn't figure out how to make it; actually I never had the
> chance to try the modem.
>
> The other Linux did recognize both my hard drives and my CD.
>
> Sorry to be so wordy but I'd rather not set it all up again only to find I
> can't use it. Anyway, is there a way to find out specifically if Debian 2
> will be able to support my hardware?
>
> Thanks much.
>
> NN
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