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"Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <bss03@××××××××××.net> posted |
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200610150755.31570.bss03@××××××××××.net, excerpted below, on Sun, 15 Oct |
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2006 07:55:27 -0500: |
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> Probably an MFC-7420, like mine, or possibly one of it's "big brothers." |
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> They have cups, lpd, and sane drivers available for x86 linux, but no |
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> support for other arches (including x86_64) last time I checked. They do |
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> have a separate cups driver that allows faxing from your desktop. |
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Just checked 2nite. MFC-8220 IIRC, so it's the "big brother". Are those |
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drivers closed source (in which case no way, I prefer FLOSS drivers, |
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thanks, and certainly won't be putting any of my money into anything |
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without them, "Linux" non-support that closed source ultimately is), or |
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open but simply not ported to amd64/x86_64 yet? Regardless of what others |
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choose, I choose not to run what I see as slaveryware, period, no |
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negotiation even possible. |
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> As I'm on x86_64 and don't need a scanner much, I looked for other cups |
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> drivers that were available from portage and found the Brother MFC-9600 |
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> Foomatic/hl1250' driver worked fine for simple printing. |
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> FWIW, I think Brother wants to be linux friendly, but haven't (for |
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> whatever reason) but a lot of effort behind it. |
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That could well be. Of course, if they simply open the specs |
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sufficiently, the community will often provide drivers without company |
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effort, and even in the corner cases where they don't, they'll often run |
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with the drivers once supplied, leaving the company free of worrying about |
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continued investment and support. FWIW, I don't play NVidia's or ATI's |
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current "Linux support" games either. If it's not free as in speech, it |
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doesn't get installed. Simple as that. That's why I'm running Radeon |
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9200 series here, as that was the last of their free products. |
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Anyway, thanks for the info. Very useful! =8^) |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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