You were saying, Wombat?.....

[WyWyWyWy]

Ok back to Linux driver...

Looks like Matrox had to be Linux specific because it had to use some of the features of linuxfb... (busmastering?)

Guess we *BSD users have to wait until FreeBSD 5.0 which *I think* it has in-kernel framebuffer support.

[leech]

Originally posted by mutz
...Greebe kicks ass...

Greebe smokes too much weed.

I agree, back to the linux driver comment, which Greebe had no useful information on.

I'm having problems getting the stupid driver working again. I wiped my linux harddrive twice yesterday, Debian is back on it. I don't know what crap Mandrake loads up at the beginning, so I decided to give Debian a shot again, which I had X working before (I just couldn't for the life of me get my printer going) What I had to do to get it working in Debian was I compiled a kernel 2.4.19 off of ftp.us.kernel.org and I had to enable busmastering in X, also I had to download the 4.2.1 packages that Branden made (http://people.debian.org/~branden) that dude kicks ass by the way! I'll work on it again today I think. Hopefully I don't lose all my hair over it. Anyone else have any luck so far?

Leech

[albatorsk]

Running Slackware with kernel 2.4.19 and XFree86 4.2.0. It just worked for me. No problems what so ever. Busmastering and HW cursor enabled, of course.

[runderwo]

OT, but what printer do you have? I'm sort of a self-proclaimed Unix printer maven.

[leech]

Originally posted by runderwo
OT, but what printer do you have? I'm sort of a self-proclaimed Unix printer maven.

I have a lexmark z52. I don't know why I couldn't get it to work, though I theorize it was due to using cups 1.1.15, which is in debian unstable. 1.1.16 is the newest (oh wait, I just looked on Cups.org and they say the newest is 1.1.15, but Mandrake 9.0 has 1.1.16... odd)

Leech

[albatorsk]

<SARCASM>
Who needs cups when there is LPRng, APSfilter and Ghostscript?
</SARCASM>

No, seriously. I've never tried CUPS, but that's just because I've never had to. I have an Apple LaserWriter 630 Pro that I have connected to my server with appletalk/netatalk and LPRng. It's working absolutely great, but am I missing out on something? What would the benefits be to me if I switched to CUPS?

[albatorsk]

A dhcp.conf? Do you mean a dhcpd.conf? All it has to say is something like:

default-lease-time 7200;
max-lease-time 7200;

authoritative;

subnet 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
  range 192.168.1.2 192.168.1.254;
  option domain-name-servers 192.168.1.1;
  option routers 192.168.1.1;
  option broadcast-address 192.168.1.255;
  default-lease-time 600;
  max-lease-time 7200;
}

But that won't help you with your firewall rules. Take a look at them with "iptables -l" and check what's blocked and what's not.

[leech]

I like cups, easy to set up, has support for IPP and well hell, I don't know, I'm beat, and pissed off....

Apparently Mandrake 9.0rc2 is far too secure. It won't even let me ping or browse the net when I put on "Higher" security when I set it up. What's up with that? I put the NIC that the DSL goes through back into my desktop computer until I can figure out what else I can try. Anyone want to create a dhcp.conf file for me that'll work in Debian? Along with the settings for the NAT stuff? I gave up on that and decided to try to install Mandrake 9.0rc2. God, I hate windows....

Leech

[leech]

Originally posted by albatorsk
A dhcp.conf? Do you mean a dhcpd.conf? All it has to say is something like:

default-lease-time 7200;
max-lease-time 7200;

authoritative;

subnet 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
  range 192.168.1.2 192.168.1.254;
  option domain-name-servers 192.168.1.1;
  option routers 192.168.1.1;
  option broadcast-address 192.168.1.255;
  default-lease-time 600;
  max-lease-time 7200;
}

But that won't help you with your firewall rules. Take a look at them with "iptables -l" and check what's blocked and what's not.

Yup that's what I meant Speaking of firewalling rules, that's apparently why I was having such a pain in the ass getting my DSL working last night. Mandrake 9.0rc2 is WAY too secure for even my tastes. Everything is locked out, just about. SO I couldn't even use ping as a normal user!

Leech

[runderwo]

Have you tried the Lexmark driver set for it? There were some bugs in CUPS & Gimp-print relating to lexmark printers a while back. Using the Lexmark binary drivers may at least approach the problem from a different angle.

[leech]

I found a link somewhere on the net about cups 1.1.15 on debian having a problem, which matched mine perfectly, so it might just be a problem in the packages.

Leech