Printer drivers

[Kurt Wall]

On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 09:42:56PM -0600, Alan Jackson took 33 lines to write:
> Well, one last issue with my new box. I have a Canon S900 printer, which
> has no driver at linuxprinting.org, but does at turboprint (which is where
> I got one for my old machine).
> 
> So I download the AMD64 driver (built on Linux 2.4.1) and it says :
> 
> # ./setup
> ./setup: line 30: bin/xtpsetup: cannot execute binary file
> plus more stuff.

Such as?

> # file tpsetup
> tpsetup: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, AMD x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.4.1, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped

What does "ldd tpsetup" and ldd "xtpsetup" say?

> Could this be a problem because I'm running 2.6.15? Especially since it is
> dynamically linked (why didn't they make a static???)

No. Maybe.

> Is there any other solution? Canon has OS-X drivers - but no Linux...

Any help on the turboprint site?

Kurt
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