Warty Install Issues: Sound, Printer, Modem, Scanner. Quoting-Style

[vailima]

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>Subject: Re: Warty Install Issues: Sound, Printer, Modem,Scanner. Quoting-Style
>   From: Gerhard Gaußling <ggrubbish at web.de>
>   Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 00:12:54 +0200
>     To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
>
>Am Dienstag 10 Mai 2005 22:41 schrieb vailima:
>> 1. No Sound
>> 2. Won't recognize the Printer
>> 3. Won't recognize the Modem
>> 4. Won't recognize the Scanner
>
>Hello Vaillima,
>
>Please open for each issue a new thread in this maillist, or at least 
>change the subject according to the new content of the post/mail.
>
>Further, please, avoid top-posting, at least  in long threads. I noticed 
>that in an other email within this thread about your modem problem, and 
>I was rather confused, because I had to read from the bottom to the top 
>of your message, to follow the conversation. Its much more convenient 
>in maillists to do an interleaved form of quoting and commenting or at 
>least 'bottom-posting', because this saves the logical and causal 
>relation in a communication. The answer follows the question and not 
>vice versa. 
>
>Like I quoted and wrote in an earlier mail in this list on the topic 
>'top-quoting' read RFC1855 as a quasi-standard for posting in forums:
>
>    http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt :
>    - If you are sending a reply to a message or a posting be sure you
>      summarize the original at the top of the message, or include just
>      enough text of the original to give a context.  This will make
>      sure readers understand when they start to read your response.
>      Since NetNews, especially, is proliferated by distributing the
>      postings from one host to another, it is possible to see a
>      response to a message before seeing the original.  Giving context
>      helps everyone.  But do not include the entire original!
>
>But keep in mind to edit the quoted lines to a reasonable content. 
>Otherwise This might lead the poster to let the whole bunch of quote 
>untouched and wrote his short "I agree!" message on the buttom of the 
>mail.
>
>See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-posting
>
>Regarding your problems, I want to insist, that you should open a new 
>thread for each issue, I can say this:
>
>> 1. No Sound
>Please, tell the soundcard manufactor and model. Try System > 
>Preferences > Multimedia System   . Choose esd. Post the error 
>messages. 
>http://www.alsa-project.org
>http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/ 
>$ dpkg-reconfigure alsa-base.
> 
>> 2. Won't recognize the Printer
>Also post the printermodel and error messages as well. dpkg -l *cups*
>http://www.linuxprinting.org/
>http://www.linuxprinting.org/printer_list.cgi
>$ dpkg-reconfigure cupssys
>$ dpkg-reconfigure cupssys-bsd
>$ dpkg-reconfigure foomatic-filter
>
>> 3. Won't recognize the Modem
>Same as in 1. and 2. look on the webpage for linmodems and ask google.
>http://start.at/modem "Winmodems are *NOT* modems"
>http://free.hostdepartment.com/g/gromitkc/winmodem.html Huige List of 
>supported and unsupported (win)modems.
>http://linmodems.org/
>
>> 4. Won't recognize the Scanner
>The same as in 1.-3. Have a look at http://www.sane-project.org/
>especially here http://www.sane-project.org/sane-supported-devices.html
>$ sane-find-scanner
>
>Use google ubuntu.com/wiki and ubuntuforums.org.
>
>e.g. : 
>http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=%24HOWTO+site%3Aalsa-project.org&btnG=Search
>http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=%24PRINTERNAME+site%3Alinuxprinting.org&btnG=Search
>http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=linmodems+site%3Aubuntu.com&btnG=Search
>http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=%24ITEM+site%3Asane-project.org&btnG=Search
>
>I hope that helps a little. Please open new threads for these issues.
>
>Kind regards
>
>Gerhard
>
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