On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 22:05:27 +0200, nodata wrote: > On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 14:52 -0400, beartooth wrote: > [snip] >> Remember that I have little idea what I am talking about. > > You can use the hplip package to do this - it's in Fedora testing. I'm delighted to hear that -- many thanks! But I mean it with the .sig line that you quoted above : VVDQ is for Very Very Dumb Question. Fedora testing scares me. Is it really ready for dumb looks?? I still need a lot of help with the things I do do; I don't try to work from source code, and I don't even try commands like "make" or "build" or "install" -- actually, I avoid tarballs, and nowadays even rpms as much as I can. Any idea if it may soon be possible to do "yum install hplip"?? Or at least "rpm -ivh" from an rpm that says fc4?? > Just download the package from the http site, rename the "hp" to > "lexmark", and install. Voila - a working Lexmark printer driver. Hmmm.... by "the http site" do you mean http://freshmeat.net/projects/hplip/ -- or maybe http://hpinkjet.sourceforge.net/ -- or something else? Freshmeat says it's alpha! I run betas of browsers -- and I guess Pan is officially still beta, too, since the version number still starts with 0 -- but I get in troubles too big for me doing it, too, at times. I can't seem to cope with the galeon/mozilla dependencies, for instance, with the time, skills, and patience I have. Alphas are beyond me. Also, the sourceforge site says to check the Products Supported list -- which lists only hp hardware, afaict, naturally enough -- for whether to use hpijs instead. Is the lexmark X1185 by any chance a clone of some hp model?? But let me say again how delighted I am to hear that somebody is indeed working on something. And between you and me and the list, it would be a nice surprise for my wife, who isn't into computers any more than absolutely necessary, to find a nice new HP color-printer/scanner/copier next to her desk downstairs, instead of the poor old b&w antique that only still prints if you feed it one page at a time .... Many many thanks! Strength to their arms! Long may they live, thrive, and prosper! -- Beartooth Neo-Redneck, Linux Evangelist FC4, YDL 4; Pine 4.63, Pan 0.14.2.91; Privoxy 3.0.3; Dillo 0.8.5, Opera 8.01, Firefox 1.0.4, Epiphany 1.6.1 Remember that I have little idea what I am talking about.
