Several issues

[oldman]

Mark Jordan wrote:

>Ok, some separate issues:
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>1) Sometimes my OpenOffice just quits within a minute  a la  just
>going *poof* on an i386 FC4 machine (Pentium III). I have posted this
>as an openoffice issue but I wondered if anyone here had any
>experience with this maybe with another problem, so if this might be
>an FC4 problem.
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>2) I have a Freecom Classic Series cd burner and I just can't get
>fedora to talk to it. It's on USB (external). Any ideas appreciated
>
>3) I have a Lexmark Z25 printer but FC4 doesn't have a driver for it.
>Linux detects it as such perfectly. Is there one?
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    Pretty well known that lexmark has not been helpful in getting 
drivers, but try http://linuxprinting.org

>And finally, ...
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>4) What does the HAL dæmon do? Report error messages? <-- idle curiosity
>
>Sorry for all the questions. Feel free to get annoyed at me.
>
>Mark
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