Printer drivers

[Alan Jackson]

On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 21:12:36 -0500
Kurt Wall <kwall at kurtwerks.com> wrote:

> 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?

 # ldd tpsetup 
        not a dynamic executable

> 
> > 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?

  not yet. I e-mailed them, but silence....

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