Did you try emergeing foomatic-db w/ USE="ppds" ? there are a bunch of Brother ppds in there.
On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 16:08 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > I recently bought a Brother MFC-7420 and I'm trying to get it to work with > my gentoo linux system. > > Brother provides a lpr driver, a sane driver, and a cupswrapper driver, > none of which I can get to work. I have successfully converted the > provided .deb / .rpm packages to tar.gz and extracted them, looked at the > install/configure shell prints, extracted the fliters and ppds (for > printer drivers) and put them in the right place, or at least what I > believe to be the right place. > > Unfortunately, when trying to configure kprinter, as root, I get an error > to the effect of Invalid Format when trying to read the ppd. > > Does anyone have experience with this printer, or any of the brother > printers (they seem to have a mostly unified interface) on gentoo? I'd > have to have to switch to debian just to get this to work. ;) > > Also, what information would be helpful for any that want to help me > troubleshoot this? This has been stymieing me for a week, and I'd really > like to get it fixed ASAP (I have having to go to kinkos to print). > > -- > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy -- Lares Moreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | LRU: 400755 http://counter.li.org lares/irc.freenode.net | Gentoo x86 Arch Tester | ::0 Alberta, Canada Public Key: 0D46BB6E @ subkeys.pgp.net | Encrypted Mail Preferred Key fingerprint = 0CA3 E40D F897 7709 3628 C5D4 7D94 483E 0D46 BB6E
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