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Hi all, my first post, great distro. I am no stranger to Linux and have been kicking the tires of Salix for a while now in anticipation of replacing Debian when it goes full blown systemd (in Jessie), or preferably sooner.

This is my problem, Brother does supply a proprietary driver (a pain in the rear to install but it works) for Redhat, Debian and Ubuntu but I can get the printer to work in other distros using the "Brother HL-1430 Foomatic/hl1250 (recommended)" driver. I've looked in Gslapt and Sourcery and all I see is the foomatic-filters package. Am I missing something, possibly add another repo? Is there somewhere I can download and manually install any needed files?

The gutenprint driver does the same as it does in other distros, it sends the data to the printer, the printer heats up like it supposed to (laser/toner), etc, but then just stops, the status then shows no remaining jobs, as if the print was successful but no paper output, not even a blank page.

I really like Salix and I really want to switch to it, PCLinuxOS is my plan B, it too is a nice distro, nice people but too n00b friendly for my blood.

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tenxuts wrote:Hi all, my first post, great distro. I am no stranger to Linux and have been kicking the tires of Salix for a while now in anticipation of replacing Debian when it goes full blown systemd (in Jessie), or preferably sooner.

This is my problem, Brother does supply a proprietary driver (a pain in the rear to install but it works) for Redhat, Debian and Ubuntu but I can get the printer to work in other distros using the "Brother HL-1430 Foomatic/hl1250 (recommended)" driver. I've looked in Gslapt and Sourcery and all I see is the foomatic-filters package. Am I missing something, possibly add another repo? Is there somewhere I can download and manually install any needed files?

The gutenprint driver does the same as it does in other distros, it sends the data to the printer, the printer heats up like it supposed to (laser/toner), etc, but then just stops, the status then shows no remaining jobs, as if the print was successful but no paper output, not even a blank page.

Hello.

Please get the PPD file from the following page. https://www.openprinting.org/printer/Br ... er-HL-1430

Then start on the CUPS web interface, via: http://localhost:631/admin

A supporting dialog leads you through setting up a new printer. That includes entering the path to the downloaded PPD file. CUPS does the rest.

A description of the process can be found here: http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collabor ... umentation

I think you don't need Foomatic.

BTW,

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iommu=soft

works in the live disk kernel boot line for newer AMD machines with the IOMMU option (off by default) in the BIOS, it's hell without that parameter, no USB 2.0 mouse, no USB 3.0 (Via chip controlled), etc. The other workaround (without the parameter) is turning USB 3.0 off and IOMMU on temporarily.

Can not help with this.

tenxuts wrote:BTW,

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iommu=soft

works in the live disk kernel boot line for newer AMD machines with the IOMMU option (off by default) in the BIOS, it's hell without that parameter, no USB 2.0 mouse, no USB 3.0 (Via chip controlled), etc. The other workaround (without the parameter) is turning USB 3.0 off and IOMMU on temporarily.

What are you trying to say? I don't see a question.

@gapan...Sorry about that, the IOMMU thing was just a heads up for anybody with the same type of mobo, I found that out the hard way, you're right, probably the wrong place for it.

@westms...I did give a thorough explanation, I clearly stated the gutenprint driver does not work, if the link you supplied is the foomatic driver I quoted, then I apologize. I am by no means new at this, I've installed the proprietary driver in Debian, requiring pre-install tasks, enabling muli-arch i386, etc. So when I say I've tried everything and I know the difference between drivers, you can take that to the bank.