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Peter Lloyd-Jones wrote: >Hi > >Is there anyone out there using Fedora 4 and the C84? > >Still chasing my mouse, but as it works if I boot into "normal" Fedora it is >not a matter of great urgency. However my printer is. > >If the printer is on the parallel port the computer does not recognize it, nor >does it work at all when set up as a C84. Change the driver one can can get >it to spit out a sheet of paper. (which proves the computer is pointing at >the correct port). Plug into USB and the computer does recognize the >printer(!), but still fails to do anything. > >This does seem strange to me, some distro's work some things, others others on >this computer. (Only windows seems to work everything!) Should I try >another distro. Are they trying so hard to be plug and play that they are >failing? > >Thanks in advance > >Peter L-J > > > Not sure if this has been mentioned already, but have you tried the latest version of Gimp-Print? It's now called GutenPrint. I'm using GutenPrint 5.0.0rc1 on Ubuntu Breezy (AMD64) 5.10 with my Epson Stylus Photo R200 printer. I installed GutenPrint from source. I did a quick check of my installation and there appears to be a C84 driver included. Hope this helps. Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe. FAQ: www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html