On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 13:11 -0500, fedora-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 12:02:00 -0500 > From: beartooth <beartooth@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Faint hope : new printer drivers in FC5? > To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Message-ID: <pan.2006.02.20.17.01.59.517853@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Fool that I was, I bought a printer on someone's recommendation, without > thinking to check whether it worked with linux. It's a Lexmark X1185 -- > which didn't then, and still doesn't afaict: linuxprinting finds no driver > for it. > > So will there be any new printer drivers in FC5 that are not yet generally > available on linuxprinting? If so, is there a list I can check mine > against? > > Fwiw, I've been running an XP machine, just for topo maps and GPS stuff; > but it's beginning to look like CrossoverOffice 5.0 (CXO) will be able to > handle at least the most important (to me) of the proprietary suites of > GPS/topo software that I have, Maptech and Garmin. But, I'm told on the > CXO list, neither wine nor CXO can handle any printer that linux can't > already run. > > So, if I take to running a clean OS on what is now the XP machine, will > that mean I have one more bulky paperweight sitting around? Or is there > hope with FC5 once I update to that? > > > -- > Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert > FC4; Pine 4.64, Pan 0.14.2.91; Privoxy 3.0.3; > Dillo 0.8.5, Opera 8.51, Firefox 1.0.7, Epiphany 1.6.5 > Remember I have little idea what I am talking about. > We bought a Lexmark All-In-One type printer a while back, but had to take it back. The only way it would give some limited functionality was by using the supplied driver on a M$ XP Pro machine, and even then, the poor crippled thing could not accept print requests from any but the host machine. PC World (the suppliers) accepted the printer without question when I explained the problem, so they must be aware of it. -- Peter Blake <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxx> <peterb@xxxxxxxxxx> Blake Measurement Ltd
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