Just thought I'd ask in a different way. My Samsung ML-2510 driver installed fine in FC3, and works fine from FC3. Because it's a proprietary driver, there's no way to really say why it won't work in Fedora 7 and a different driver must be used? It's basically "refer to samsung" for using their printer driver? else use splix, for example? Changing distro's wouldn't resolve whatever "broke" the samsung printer, I'm assuming, unless similarly old versions are run.
-Thufir
On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 22:26 +0000, Thufir wrote:
Just thought I'd ask in a different way. My Samsung ML-2510 driver installed fine in FC3, and works fine from FC3. Because it's a proprietary driver, there's no way to really say why it won't work in Fedora 7 and a different driver must be used? It's basically "refer to samsung" for using their printer driver? else use splix, for example? Changing distro's wouldn't resolve whatever "broke" the samsung printer, I'm assuming, unless similarly old versions are run.
Is this a question or a statement?
Richard.
On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 23:29:05 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
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Is this a question or a statement?
Richard.
Yes.
More of gripe, assuming I have the facts correct. I found it exhausting just getting FC3 installed to confirm that the printer even works, and needed to vent some. I wish I understood why the printer behaves this way, it's very opaque. In retrospect, I wish I hadn't posted the gripe.
-Thufir
on 6/29/2007 10:32 PM, Thufir wrote:
On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 23:29:05 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
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Is this a question or a statement?
Richard.
Yes.
More of gripe, assuming I have the facts correct. I found it exhausting just getting FC3 installed to confirm that the printer even works, and needed to vent some. I wish I understood why the printer behaves this way, it's very opaque. In retrospect, I wish I hadn't posted the gripe.
-Thufir
This list is not where you should be reporting your problem. I would recommend that you should post a very clear, concise Bugzilla report.
On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 22:26 +0000, Thufir wrote:
Just thought I'd ask in a different way. My Samsung ML-2510 driver installed fine in FC3, and works fine from FC3. Because it's a proprietary driver, there's no way to really say why it won't work in Fedora 7 and a different driver must be used?
That's not entirely true. You _could_ attempt to debug it and work how/why it behaves differently on F7. But you've little chance of actually _fixing_ it. You might get away with running it in a chroot with the bits of FC3 you need, perhaps.
If you use non-free software, you should _expect_ it to break.
Have you tried the GDI driver? http://openprinting.org/show_driver.cgi?driver=gdi&fromprinter=Samsung-M...