Re: Using Lexmark X6170 with FC1

[Graeme Willox <graemewillox@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 07/12/2003 11:55 James Drabb wrote

On Sat, 2003-12-06 at 19:06, Graeme Willox wrote:
  

On 07/12/2003 01:47 James Drabb wrote

I'm quite happy with the Lexmark printer.  If it won't work with Linux
then unfortunately perhaps, Linux will be what has to go.
    

Wow!  Your going to give up on Linux because of one poorly made,
proprietary printer?  Oh well.  Is Linux running on a separate PC?  You
could try to print to it using samba.  Though I don't know if that will
work because Lexmark uses their own proprietary protocol to talk to the
printer.

Jim Drabb
  

I'd like to give Linux a fair go, but given that I can't return the printer, what you're suggesting is that I effectively throw away a $500 printer.  In answer to your question, Linux isn't running on a separate PC.  At the moment, I'm using grub to choose between Linux and Windows XP Pro.

I'll have a look at samba.  I guess my biggest problem with Linux at the moment is that I still know absolutely nothing about it.  I didn't even download it myself.  I can't get broadband internet access in my area.  I got a copy of Fedora from someone else who uses it.

I considered it a major achievement when I managed to have my fat32 partitions mount automatically each time the machine is booted.  :-)