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Did you try emergeing foomatic-db w/ USE="ppds" ? |
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there are a bunch of Brother ppds in there. |
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On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 16:08 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: |
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> I recently bought a Brother MFC-7420 and I'm trying to get it to work with |
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> my gentoo linux system. |
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> |
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> Brother provides a lpr driver, a sane driver, and a cupswrapper driver, |
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> none of which I can get to work. I have successfully converted the |
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> provided .deb / .rpm packages to tar.gz and extracted them, looked at the |
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> install/configure shell prints, extracted the fliters and ppds (for |
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> printer drivers) and put them in the right place, or at least what I |
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> believe to be the right place. |
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> |
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> Unfortunately, when trying to configure kprinter, as root, I get an error |
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> to the effect of Invalid Format when trying to read the ppd. |
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> |
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> Does anyone have experience with this printer, or any of the brother |
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> printers (they seem to have a mostly unified interface) on gentoo? I'd |
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> have to have to switch to debian just to get this to work. ;) |
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> |
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> Also, what information would be helpful for any that want to help me |
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> troubleshoot this? This has been stymieing me for a week, and I'd really |
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> like to get it fixed ASAP (I have having to go to kinkos to print). |
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> |
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> -- |
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> Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. |
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> bss03@××××××××××.com |
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> ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy |
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