Adam Borowski [2017-07-23 12:57]: >> > I run 32-bit Devuan on one Core2 machine. Why? I can't get Xerox' >> > proprietary printer driver for their Phaser 6010N color laser to work on >> > 64-bit. Several receipes on how to do this, none of them work.
> Printer drivers work in userspace, not in kernel. 64-bit x86 kernels can > run i386 binaries just fine -- usually better than a 32-bit kernel would, > as there's no mucking with inadequate address space. Yes, I can probably run a 64-bit kernel on this machine, and still have an exclusively 32-bit userspace. > And on De??an, there's multiarch so you can mix-and-match binaries. > I don't know much about printing (I don't own a printer nor have a reason > to use one more than once per ~2 years), but AFAIK printer drivers are > separate processes so there's no ABI problem whatsoever. In theory, yes. I have tried just that, and it didn't work. I will try again tomorrow, when I see this printer again. -- Hilsen Harald _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
