[Watford] June meet & linux printer driver

[Walt]

Hi everyone,

Hope to make it tomorrow evening as usual.  

Although I have progressed a bit I am still very much a newbie and one of
the things that completely defeats me is compiling source code.  Every time
I download some source code for a program I fancy and follow the
instructions to the letter it fails to complete somewhere along the line.  I
just don't fully understand the process  and have very little idea how to
interpret the error messages and take remedial action.  Books and the web
don't really help that much because the answers are usually from experts who
invariably manage to lose me somewhere along the line.

Would it possible to organize a future session on this particular subject?
It will boring for most of the members but it would a great help to me and
maybe some others too.

Look forward to seeing you all.
Walter

-----Original Message-----
From: watford-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
[mailto:watford-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Yvan Seth
Sent: 04 June 2008 10:35
To: watford at mailman.lug.org.uk
Subject: Re: [Watford] June meet & linux printer driver

On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 11:31:06PM +0100, David Pead wrote:
> Roll call, who's in?

We're trying to arrange to make it, looking positive so far.

I've been dead busy with moving/work so haven't had a chance to prepare
for any of the items discussed in the last meetup we made it to.
However, I can bring along my handheld GPS (Garmin) and chat about how I
work with it in Linux.  Any other GPS fans in the group who can bring
their GPS toys and methods along?

Will bring along my PIC programmer too and can show some basic stuff
with that if time permits.

> Also, I can't seem to find a driver for a printer at work that I'd
> like to use: KODAK EASYSHARE 5300 All-in-One. There's a driver for
> mac's (which have a unix backbone) but nowt specifically for linux.
> 
> Any ideas you cleaver lot? A way to 'port' (have I got that right)
> perhaps?

Alas, Kodak printers are notoriously difficult with Linux and Kodak
doesn't care.  I'm not aware of any shim layer to make Mac (BSD based,
but very hacked) drivers work with Linux.   Typically it'd be a code
port, but the driver code isn't available.

-Yvan

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