Archive for September 22nd, 2006
Creative Labs T-7900 speakers on Linux
Well the speakers have arrived, they worked more or less out of the box. It still took me a while before I was happy it was working because I hadn’t realised that the side and rear speakers don’t get activated in normal use. The way to test is to use a proper test program: speaker-test [...]
Posted: September 22nd, 2006 under Linux.
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Samsung ML1610 printer on Linux
This was fairly simple, but didn’t work out of the box. First off, I downloaded the huge “unified” printer driver from Samsung. I can’t say I’m a big fan of these things – I like small drivers, not huge all in one applications with GUI installers – it’s just not the Unix way and makes [...]
Posted: September 22nd, 2006 under Linux.
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