On Tuesday 20 April 2010, fred smith wrote: >On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 01:02:09PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Tuesday 20 April 2010, Steve Blackwell wrote: >> >My wife just got a new Lexmark X2670 all-in-one printer with her new >> >laptop that we want to share. >> > >> >I can't find any drivers for it for F11. Does anyone else have this >> >printer and if so have you found a way to make it work? >> > >> >Thanks, >> >Steve >> >> Probably a mistake. Lexmark's parent corporation has an attitude toward >> linux, going so far as to deny warranty when they found it was being used >> on a linux system. I've been bit, my employer for 20 years was bit. So >> most of us old-timers have never bothered to put any fingerprints on >> their products when shopping for printers. I'm partial to Epsons stuff >> myself. They, and Brother seem to have us grokked. HP also for large >> values of sometimes. > >I just recently (last couple of weeks) saw an article online, somewhere, >about how Lexmark is now providing Linux support for all their printers. >But unfortunatley I can't recall where it was. > >Ah-HA! here it is: > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=lexmark_linux&num=1 > I stand (or sit) corrected, as I also recall reading that article at the time. Can I plead CRS? Or perhaps oldtimers since I'm 75? But since the leopards spots go all the way through its skins epidermis, I am left wondering how much surgery it took to accomplish that about face. ;-) -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Removing the straw that broke the camel's back does not necessarily allow the camel to walk again. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
