[plug] Red Hat 6 (?)

[John Summerfield]

> 
> I have watched the discussions about problems encountered with the 
> changes to Red Hat Linux, from 5.x to 6.0.
> 
> We have 5.2 installed, and have one or two problems (we have not tried 
> yet to fix the sound not working, and have not yet got the DeskJet 
> 500c working with the postscript applications), but it seems to work 
> okay, apart from those problems.


I just looked at my printer config: it shows DJ 500 (but NOT 500c) and 
550C, 560C and 6xxC)

/usr/local/share/ghostscript/5.10/doc/devices.txt lists the 500c: did you 
try configuring the 500 to see if that works? You may need to tamper with 
the files that the printer configuration tool creates.


> 
> We have a copy of RH 6, but have not yet installed it.
> 
> With all the problems that have been raised with RH 6, is it worth the 
> upgrade (apart from for the guru's, who get into the systems 
> programming, and get their hands dirty)?
> 
> What are the benefits of the upgrade?

Well, if it's not broken....
Don't expect RHL 6 to fix the Deskjet problem.

If you want a 2.2 kernel, you can apply necessary updates to 5.3 and get 
there: I'm running 2.2.(9|10) kernels on RHL 5.0 systems: the system still 
on 2.2.9 simply hasn't been rebooted.
-- 
Cheers
John Summerfield
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