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From: Scott Andersen on 15 Mar 2006 18:02
I'm running a dual boot system with WinXP and the download version of
Mandrake 10. I have a Lexmark X1100 all in one printer. Lexmark does not
make any linux drivers. Is there a printer that I select that will
emulate my printer? I don't want to have to buy another printer because
it's not compatible with my OS and I want to go native linux. Thanks,

Scott
From: BlackTopBum on 15 Mar 2006 20:23
Scott Andersen said something like a ...

> I have a Lexmark X1100 all in one printer. Lexmark does not
> make any linux drivers. Is there a printer that I select that will
> emulate my printer?[...]

Poke around here:
http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Lexmark-1100
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From: Aragorn on 16 Mar 2006 08:20
On Thursday 16 March 2006 00:02, Scott Andersen stood up and spoke the
following words to the masses in /alt.os.linux.mandrake...:/

> I'm running a dual boot system with WinXP and the download version of
> Mandrake 10. I have a Lexmark X1100 all in one printer. Lexmark does
> not make any linux drivers. Is there a printer that I select that will
> emulate my printer?

A quick Google search - which I'm sure you could have done yourself, but
anyway... ;-) - lead me to loads of references regarding the Lexmark
X1100.

Here is a link on which this printer is being discussed...:

http://www.linuxprinting.org/pipermail/lexmark-list/2004q3/002658.html

And this is an important quote from that page...:

<quote>
Lexmark doesn't have a driver for the X1100. However we can get it to
work (and print perfectly in color, too!) using the z600 driver here:

http://downloads.lexmark.com/cgi-perl/downloads.cgi?ccs=229:1:0:389:0:0&emeaframe=&fileID=1151

</quote>

You can follow the rest of the instructions there if you have a Mandrake
10.1 system. You didn't specify whether you have 10.0 or 10.1, and
there's a big difference between those two, namely that 10.0 still
comes with /devfs,/ while 10.1 makes use of /udev./

> I don't want to have to buy another printer because it's not
> compatible with my OS and I want to go native linux.

You may want to upgrade to the newer Mandriva 2006 and download all the
updates before you go off on setting up your printer. That way, you
can skip all the steps about getting the latest CUPS, etc.

Neither Mandrake 10.0 nor Mandrake 10.1 are supported any longer. The
newer Mandriva 2006 may also save you from further worries in regards
to hardware support that you could be coming across in your older 10.x
distro.

Hope this helps... ;-)

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With kind regards,

*Aragorn*
(Registered GNU/Linux user #223157)
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