Hi Dan, Tks for your advice.
<snip> > I can't tell whether or not you've > been successful getting your printer to work. The printer is working fine on FC3, the host, on the same box. It also works on WinXP installed on a mobile HD mounted on this box. > I'm not sure of all the capabilities of a deskjet, but hplip is > designed > to support HP's multi-dimensional machines--printer, fax, copier, > scanner. I won't test scanner on BLFS 6.1. Another set of dependnecies are needed by SANE as well as by the drvier of the scanner available for test the later of which is an obsolete model. > I didn't post my adventure here since many of the dependencies for > hplip > are not included in BLFS, e.g.; foomatic... That are most concerned to me, adding dependencies for hplip. Would they conflict with other packages already installed on BLFS 6.1? I can install hplip based on my previous experience. This is not the first time for me encountering printing problem. > I think you > mentioned that you use KDE. Sorry, no, only TWM as window manager. Neither I'll install KDE nor GNOME. > The second situation may be pertinent to BLFS. Hplip wants to put > its > start-up scripts in /etc/init.d. Of course, in BLFS, we have only > /etc/rc.d/init.d. I think I can overcome this problem with the available documents on my possession. Anyway I'll install ESP Ghostscript-7.07.1 later to see whether I can solve the problem. I checked the list of supported printer on Gimp-Print-4.2.7; http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/p_Supported_Printers.php3 HP Deskjet 5740 is not there. If NOT I'll skip installing HP printer and move on building BLFS 6.1 Tks. BR SL -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
