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Subject: Re: Firmware stuff - was systemd fight
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 11:36:13 -0500
On Mon, 3 Mar 2014 17:10:46 +0800 (WST)
Bret Busby b...@busby.net wrote:
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Debian 6 apparently made most printers paperweight or sopmetimes
works, in functionality
On Tuesday 04 March 2014 06:55:48 Bret Busby wrote:
On Mon, 3 Mar 2014, Bret Busby wrote:
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 19:04:20
From: Bret Busby b...@busby.net
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Firmware stuff - was systemd fight
On Mon, 3 Mar 2014, Lisi Reisz wrote:
Date: Mon
On Monday 03 March 2014 07:05:22 Doug wrote:
It would seem that XSane is smart enough to scan
without any other drivers
This is very much not my experience. I have always found that XSANE
needs drivers, and if they are not available says that it cannot find
the scanner.
Lisi
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On Mon, 3 Mar 2014, Doug wrote:
On 03/03/2014 12:56 AM, Bret Busby wrote:Debian; why provision is not made,
to allow software that runs on Debian 5, to run on Debian 6 and Debian 7.
As a single example, I have a multifunction printer, of which, the
multifunctionality worked with Debian 5.
On Lu, 03 mar 14, 13:56:45, Bret Busby wrote:
Apart from the systemd fight stuff, I am wondering, in the context
of the above message content, why a spearate firmware distribution
of Debian Linux, needs to exist, rather than the firmware being
included in the offical Debian version.
On Monday 03 March 2014 09:10:46 Bret Busby wrote:
The device is a Samsung CLX3185FW, and it had drivers that worked
with Debian 5.
Contact Samsung. If you have difficulty in getting through to someone
who speaks Linux mail me off-list and I'll give you a name.
A client had bought a Samsung
On Monday 03 March 2014 09:49:13 Andrei POPESCU wrote:
I strongly advise that on your next buy (not necessarily MFPs) you
also consider how well that device is supported with Linux. Bonus
if the manufacturer contributes to that support. If enough of us
are doing the same it might eventually
On Mon, 3 Mar 2014, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
On Lu, 03 mar 14, 13:56:45, Bret Busby wrote:
Apart from the systemd fight stuff, I am wondering, in the context
of the above message content, why a spearate firmware distribution
of Debian Linux, needs to exist, rather than the firmware being
On Lu, 03 mar 14, 17:10:46, Bret Busby wrote:
Whilst the device had been able to work with Debian 5, it simply
does not work with Debian Linux after Debian 5, other than using a
printer driver for, I think the Samsung CL317x series.
Did you try splix?
Kind regards,
Andrei
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On Mon, 3 Mar 2014, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
On Lu, 03 mar 14, 13:56:45, Bret Busby wrote:
Apart from the systemd fight stuff, I am wondering, in the context
of the above message content, why a spearate firmware distribution
of Debian Linux, needs to exist, rather than the firmware being
On Mon, 3 Mar 2014, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 19:01:10
From: Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Firmware stuff - was systemd fight
On Lu, 03 mar 14, 17:10:46, Bret Busby wrote:
Whilst the device had been able to work
On Mon, 3 Mar 2014, Lisi Reisz wrote:
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 18:31:20
From: Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Firmware stuff - was systemd fight
Resent-Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 10:48:12 + (UTC)
Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
On Monday 03
On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 7:57 PM, Bret Busby b...@busby.net wrote:
[...]
But, Linux, and, the Linux community, should not have the same objective; it
should instead, be preserving the (that I believe to be) primary objective
of UNIX; that a programme that is written for one version, can run on
On Mon 03 Mar 2014 at 19:04:20 +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
The responses that I got from Samsung, were that their printers are
not compatible with Debian Linux, after Debian Linux 5.
I had contacted Samsung.
Manufacturers neglecting to continue support for equipment is nothing
new. You choose
On Lu, 03 mar 14, 18:57:09, Bret Busby wrote:
I think that it is unfortunate that we are apparently expected to
throw out all of our hardware (including printers and other such
accessories), and, replace it all, each time a new version of an
operating system, is released.
On Lu, 03 mar 14, 19:02:09, Bret Busby wrote:
Whilst the device had been able to work with Debian 5, it simply
does not work with Debian Linux after Debian 5, other than using a
printer driver for, I think the Samsung CL317x series.
Did you try splix?
Couldn't get splix to work.
I'll
On Monday 03 March 2014 12:51:18 Brian wrote:
What rabbit do you expect Debian to pull out of the hat to fix a
closed source driver? You could always run your CLX3185FW with
Debian 5. :)
Samsung does supply later drivers.
Lisi
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On Mon, 3 Mar 2014 17:10:46 +0800 (WST)
Bret Busby b...@busby.net wrote:
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Debian 6 apparently made most printers paperweight or sopmetimes
works, in functionality.
Something significant, changed between Debian Linux 5 and Debian Linux
6, that reduced the functionality of the operating
Is it not in the unfree repository?
Alot of stuff was moved there.
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Subject: Re: Firmware stuff - was systemd fight
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 11:36:13 -0500
On Mon, 3 Mar 2014 17:10:46 +0800 (WST)
Bret
On Mon, 3 Mar 2014, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
On Lu, 03 mar 14, 18:57:09, Bret Busby wrote:
I think that it is unfortunate that we are apparently expected to
throw out all of our hardware (including printers and other such
accessories), and, replace it all, each time a new version of an
On Mon, 3 Mar 2014, Bret Busby wrote:
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 19:04:20
From: Bret Busby b...@busby.net
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Firmware stuff - was systemd fight
On Mon, 3 Mar 2014, Lisi Reisz wrote:
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 18:31:20
From: Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com
On Sun, 2 Mar 2014, y...@marupa.net wrote:
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 03:05:20
From: y...@marupa.net
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Four people decided the fate of debian with systemd. Bad faith
likely
Resent-Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2014 19:21:09 + (UTC)
Resent-From:
On 03/03/2014 12:56 AM, Bret Busby wrote:Debian; why provision is not
made, to allow software that runs on Debian 5, to run on Debian 6 and
Debian 7.
As a single example, I have a multifunction printer, of which, the
multifunctionality worked with Debian 5. Now, it is only a laser
printer,
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