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masugidsk8r
post May 8 2007, 12:59 AM
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Oookay, it's me agen. So I've listened to your words and installed Ubuntu Fiesty 7.0.2 and it's pretty good. I like it except for one issue I'm having right now. I have a printer: Lexmark X5470 and it's detected by Ubuntu. However, the drivers it's currently supporting is only 5000 and it doesn't work. I want to install a .PDD version of the driver but I can't find it. Can anyone help me?
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post May 8 2007, 05:48 AM
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Lexmarks, unfortunately, are not well supported by CUPS and SANE (the main Linux systems for printing and scanning) and Lexmark themselves simply believe that if you are running Linux then you should be writing your own drivers blink.gif ! Unfortunately the best advice I can give you is to get an old Windows box up and running and connect the printer to that, then print via Samba. Alternatively, depending on how old the printer is you might be able to return it and get a refund, as they tell you if it works with Windows or Mac OS, but not Linux - you have to try it.

In the words of the OpenPrinting Database:
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post May 8 2007, 10:56 PM
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*gasp*!!

Lexmark x5470 is not trash. It's a pretty cool printer. It's good that it can run stand-alone. It's a good between from home to business.

Anyways, I decided to use Windows 2000 for now and just wait until Dell integrates Ubuntu. It should be user-friendly when Dell decides to have Ubuntu installed on its systems. I'll wait for that time to come.
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post May 15 2007, 06:58 PM
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i had the same problem but i just installed the driver manually and it worked.
i am also having trouble with my broadcom wireless card it just wont work with ubuntu
i have 6.06 mabe it will work with the new ubuntu
anyone know????
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post May 28 2007, 05:22 AM
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v36rox, did you get X5470 to work? If you did I would completely move to Ubuntu. Hmm... I might as well just stay with dual-boot for perfect gaming.
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