Re: [gentoo-user] Cups/Sane and The Brother MFC-7420
On Sunday 18 December 2005 23:05, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Cups/Sane and The Brother MFC-7420': Can anyone help me with the scanner now? It would be really nice to have that work. I'm running amd64, do I have 64-bit sane. The libraries they provide are, of course, 32-bit so sane won't load them. I haven't (and probably won't) install a 32-bit sane, so I'll just have to wait for 64-bit drivers from brother. Might start a new thread if I decide to use my gentoo laptop to run it and it doesn't work in 32-bit mode. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Cups/Sane and The Brother MFC-7420
I recently bought a Brother MFC-7420 and I'm trying to get it to work with my gentoo linux system. Brother provides a lpr driver, a sane driver, and a cupswrapper driver, none of which I can get to work. I have successfully converted the provided .deb / .rpm packages to tar.gz and extracted them, looked at the install/configure shell prints, extracted the fliters and ppds (for printer drivers) and put them in the right place, or at least what I believe to be the right place. Unfortunately, when trying to configure kprinter, as root, I get an error to the effect of Invalid Format when trying to read the ppd. Does anyone have experience with this printer, or any of the brother printers (they seem to have a mostly unified interface) on gentoo? I'd have to have to switch to debian just to get this to work. ;) Also, what information would be helpful for any that want to help me troubleshoot this? This has been stymieing me for a week, and I'd really like to get it fixed ASAP (I have having to go to kinkos to print). -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Cups/Sane and The Brother MFC-7420
Did you try emergeing foomatic-db w/ USE=ppds ? there are a bunch of Brother ppds in there. On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 16:08 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: I recently bought a Brother MFC-7420 and I'm trying to get it to work with my gentoo linux system. Brother provides a lpr driver, a sane driver, and a cupswrapper driver, none of which I can get to work. I have successfully converted the provided .deb / .rpm packages to tar.gz and extracted them, looked at the install/configure shell prints, extracted the fliters and ppds (for printer drivers) and put them in the right place, or at least what I believe to be the right place. Unfortunately, when trying to configure kprinter, as root, I get an error to the effect of Invalid Format when trying to read the ppd. Does anyone have experience with this printer, or any of the brother printers (they seem to have a mostly unified interface) on gentoo? I'd have to have to switch to debian just to get this to work. ;) Also, what information would be helpful for any that want to help me troubleshoot this? This has been stymieing me for a week, and I'd really like to get it fixed ASAP (I have having to go to kinkos to print). -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy -- Lares Moreau [EMAIL PROTECTED] | LRU: 400755 http://counter.li.org lares/irc.freenode.net | Gentoo x86 Arch Tester | ::0 Alberta, Canada Public Key: 0D46BB6E @ subkeys.pgp.net | Encrypted Mail Preferred Key fingerprint = 0CA3 E40D F897 7709 3628 C5D4 7D94 483E 0D46 BB6E signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] Cups/Sane and The Brother MFC-7420
On Sunday 18 December 2005 17:00, Lares Moreau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Cups/Sane and The Brother MFC-7420': Did you try emergeing foomatic-db w/ USE=ppds ? there are a bunch of Brother ppds in there. After I read this, I decided to just go ahead and try some of the provided brother drivers. While I'm not sure if it has full functionality now, I did the test page to print by using the 'Brother MFC-9600 / hl1250' driver. Can anyone help me with the scanner now? It would be really nice to have that work. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
