Bill Davidsen wrote:
The latest version of gutenprint is supposedly able to support this printer. Any idea where I find that? If there is one issue with Linux it's that by the time printer and scanner hardware is supported it's no longer in production. I can't count how many scanners I have bought (new) which just didn't work, and by the time they worked the new model or new firmware was out and I couldn't buy the one that works.

Anyway, I would like to use this setup because it's quite neat but totally unsupported.

Alternatively, if I could use the USB printer and scanner directly from Windows under kvm without causing the working system printers to die, I would do that. Last time I tried the printer worked but the rest of the system printers hung after I did it. :-(

The avasys drivers mentioned in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> do indeed work magnificently with Linux and the CX7400, but only on FC6. I have no issue keeping my printer/scanner on FC6 for the moment, but I hope at some point this package will be updated. I suspect that I can run FC6 in a virtual machine if I really want to upgrade, but for the moment I'm fine.

The trick with the scanner is to use iscan, xsane doesn't work. I'm going to try that with a few of the other scanners I have around, you never outgrow your need for deskside scanning.

Thanks to dpet who mentioned this package and got me to look at it a thrid time (one of the folks on IRC talked me into retrying once before) and iscan was the solution to the input end of the problem.

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Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
  "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked."  - from Slashdot

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