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I have just bought a new machine with SuSE 8.1 and the following hardware: 3d prophet kyro series gfx card and a hp deskjet 3650 printer. I am unable to ...
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  1. 08-05-2003 #1
    BobSmith
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    How do I: prophet kyro gfx, hp deskjet 3650 driver problems

    I have just bought a new machine with SuSE 8.1 and the following hardware: 3d prophet kyro series gfx card and a hp deskjet 3650 printer. I am unable to find support for either of these products particulrly the 3d acceleration. are there 3d accelerated drivers available for the card and does anyone know how to install this dam printer???!! please be very verbose with your hints as i am totaly new to linux!

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    Is that printer connected to your parallel port, or is it one of those USB printers?

    As for that graphics card of yours, download this file:
    http://www.powervr.com/Drivers/Linux...use81.i386.rpm

    Install it with this command:
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    su -c "rpm -Uhv powervr-2.00.20-516.suse81.i386.rpm"
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    It is a usb printer. hp deskjet 3650 I couldnt find any drivers or anything for this model on the HP site
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    I almost guessed so. Those USB printers almost always make a mess of things. The thing is that very few of them follow any standards, they register themselves as having a vendor-specific interface class and therefore they require special drivers to be used, and almost all vendors only make drivers for Windoze. If you're lucky, someone has either made a driver for this printer, or HP has a semi-standardized protocol for all their printers, and someone has made a driver for that protocol. In that case, you should be able to find it somewhere. Remember, google is your friend.
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