Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 18:31:03 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: "Justin W. Pauler" <jwpauler@jwpages.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Questions About FreeBSD Message-ID: <20000816183103.X4854@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008161647250.190-100000@drnet.fais.net>; from jwpauler@jwpages.com on Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 05:00:29PM -0500 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008161647250.190-100000@drnet.fais.net>
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* Justin W. Pauler <jwpauler@jwpages.com> [000816 15:03] wrote: > Hey Everyone! > > Allright, I am having some problems with FreeBSD. Well, they may > not sound like problems, but they sure are inconvieniences and I would > like to get them worked out if possible. This is FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE, I > have not cvsupped yet. So, here goes... > > 1. Does anyone know of a driver for the OPL-SAx Sound system? In my system > I have the OPL-SAx Sound Card and it finds that ok.. > > pcm0: <Yamaha OPL-SAx> stuff about it....... > > But it also finds... > > unknown0: <Yamaha OPL3-SA3 Sound System> stuff about it... > > Anyone ever heard of a driver for this, or some type of kernel module for > it? This may be fixed by a cvsup. > 2. What is up with ZIP drives. I have tried like the dickens to get my > system to work with my zip drive. Let me explain. I have an HP Deskjet > 610c and a Iomega Zip 100 Parallel port drive. I had a problem in windows > that forced me to get a secondary printer port. I have it install and for > some reason, BSD only see's my -NEW- printer card, finds it as lpt0. NO > matter what it WILL NOT find the onboard parallel port that is > installed. This is also where I have my ZIP drive plugged in. > > The strange thing? AS SOON as a boot from plugging in my zip drive my > printer starts jerking around. It now prints out (or tries to) and then > hangs. It use to do this when it thought that the ZIP and the printer were > on the same port. You may need to add another lpt1 line to your kernel config file and compile a new kernel. > 3. I use this machine as somewhat of a terminal for users. One big concern > they have had is security. They use the command 'exit' to logout and would > like some type of way to have the screen cleared after exit. I think this > would only be reasonable. See gettytab's manpage. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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