I have moved to Debian as my primary distro and using squeeze (currently labelled testing, but soon to be stable) on my laptop. Unfortunely my laptop has a nvidia graphics card, and it pains me to have to enable the non-free repositories. Virtual Richard Stallman (vrms) got pissed.
On laptops, there usually is a Fn button [...]
To disbale the PC speaker, just blacklist the module pcspkr
echo “blacklist pcspkr” >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
rmmod pcpskr
Installing cups and HP 1018 on Debian Lenny on a NSLU-2. I used the foo2zjs driver, but you could also use hplib.
Install cups and foo2zjs. Go and have a cup of coffee or an icecream – this will take a while
apt-get install cupsys foo2zjs
Now install the hp1018 driver.
getweb 1018
By default cups doesnt allow anything but [...]