From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GZ5YH-0006Hp-IC for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 15 Oct 2006 12:57:13 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k9FCtJad022166; Sun, 15 Oct 2006 12:55:19 GMT Received: from ender.volumehost.net (adsl-69-154-123-202.dsl.fyvlar.swbell.net [69.154.123.202]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k9FCtIIL006707 for ; Sun, 15 Oct 2006 12:55:18 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ender.volumehost.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF9F5CEC for ; Sun, 15 Oct 2006 12:55:17 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at volumehost.net Received: from ender.volumehost.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ender.volumehost.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id snUTqbBUP9R1 for ; Sun, 15 Oct 2006 12:55:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from adsl-69-154-123-205.dsl.fyvlar.swbell.net (adsl-69-154-123-205.dsl.fyvlar.swbell.net [69.154.123.205]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ender.volumehost.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C59ADC4C for ; Sun, 15 Oct 2006 12:55:16 +0000 (UTC) From: "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Printer Setup Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 07:55:27 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.4 References: <452C547E.2090509@verizon.net> <20061014223423.GA9603@crud.crud.mn.org> In-Reply-To: X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart5796194.XXMCesyz0g"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200610150755.31570.bss03@volumehost.net> X-Archives-Salt: 62689800-e47d-4a27-8828-e78dd8d20bcd X-Archives-Hash: a836711a14c4dd5bfa7dac5c08f7483d --nextPart5796194.XXMCesyz0g Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Sunday 15 October 2006 03:44, "Duncan" <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> wrote=20 about '[gentoo-amd64] Re: Printer Setup': > The Brother they have at work is a laser 4-way > printer-scanner-copier-fax Probably an MFC-7420, like mine, or possibly one of it's "big brothers." =20 They have cups, lpd, and sane drivers available for x86 linux, but no=20 support for other arches (including x86_64) last time I checked. They do=20 have a separate cups driver that allows faxing from your desktop. As I'm on x86_64 and don't need a scanner much, I looked for other cups=20 drivers that were available from portage and found the=20 Brother MFC-9600 Foomatic/hl1250' driver worked fine for simple printing. =46WIW, I think Brother wants to be linux friendly, but haven't (for whatev= er=20 reason) but a lot of effort behind it. =2D-=20 "If there's one thing we've established over the years, it's that the vast majority of our users don't have the slightest clue what's best for them in terms of package stability." =2D- Gentoo Developer Ciaran McCreesh --nextPart5796194.XXMCesyz0g Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBFMi/Dq72nDbhDXToRAlBQAJ9XA24pykfNrNRQPWVyDl6CMKCyVwCggG7o c1BWIYAkue8s8XpMkXFxTuk= =Q91Q -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart5796194.XXMCesyz0g-- -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list