For some reason, I can't get my Lexmark X1150 to print in RH9. I hear it make the noise that it makes before printing, but then it doesn't print. What's wrong. It worked with my other printer (HP 930C).

I'd like some help on this issue, too. I had Lexmark Z45
that worked with the Z43 drivers. It required a little
tweaking of the margins, but it worked. I've searched the web but can't seem to find anything, the Lexmark site isn't
much help, either. I for one can't understand why folks like
Lexmark won't support Linux any more than they do, especially
the way it is growing in popularity.

Here are some tips that hopefully will get some of you guys up and running with this printer

I am using Mandrake 10rc1 (Cooker), and trying to configure a Lexmark x1150 printer/scanner. RedHat users can skip half of the bollocks here since it should install sweetly for you. I think mandrake 9.2 might have the correct libtcl/tk versions too so you might have it easier than I did. Anyway, here goes

1) Firstly get the RedHat 9 drivers for the Lexmark z600 from Lexmark

2) Extract the tarball.

[root@shmoopy Documents]# tar zxvf CJLZ600LE-CUPS-1.0-1.TAR.gz

This creates 3 files. README, COPYING and z600cups-1.0-1.gz.sh

3) Extract the files from the installer

[root@shmoopy Documents]# sh z600cups-1.0-1.gz.sh -keep

This creates a directory called installer contining 2 rpms and an assortment of scripts.

4) If the installer fails to run due to missing dependecies, we can probably get away with making a few symlinks if we have a more recent version of tcl/tk. Worked for me ...

[root@shmoopy Documents]# cd /usr/lib
[root@shmoopy lib]# ln -s libtcl8.4.so libtcl8.3.so
[root@shmoopy lib]# ln -s libtk8.4.so libtk8.3.so

I wouldn't recommend this if you have an earlier version. just upgrade. After fixing this up try extracting the installer again

5) Try to install the 2 rpms now. Attempting to do this on Cooker fails with the following interesting message ...

[root@shmoopy installer]# rpm -Uvh *rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
cups >= 1:1.1.15-10 is needed by z600cups-1.0-1

This is interesting since we appear to meet this requirement ...

[root@shmoopy installer]# rpm -q cups
cups-1.1.20-2mdk

5) If you dont have the required version of cups then you need to upgrade, otherwise do what i did ... ignore this rubbish and force the install. Note: I had to power off the printer during this process as rpm locked up if i didnt.

[root@shmoopy installer]# rpm -Uvh z600* --nodeps

You should now be able to configure your printer using printerdrake (or printtool) by selecting the z600 driver. The scanner is still not supported from what I can see so we are out of luck here.

Hope this helps somewhat

I can't have it work in the printerdrake GUI, did you?

if yes, were did you find the driver reference? In the lexmark tree?

yeah, worked fine for me.

Look under Lexmark for z600 driver.

I too have a Lexmark X1150 and have these same issues. I am running Mandrake 9.2. I downloaded the file (which is not at the location specified above - I found it here: http://www.downloaddelivery.com/srfi...S-1.0-1.TAR.gz), but get this interesting error (I am running as root:):

[root@localhost z600]# sh ./z600cups-1.0-1.gz.sh -keep
Creating directory installer
Verifying archive integrity...OK
Uncompressing Lexmark Printer Driver
./z600cups-1.0-1.gz.sh: line 133: ./install: No such file or directory
The program returned an error code (127)

Any suggestions?

Nutted,

Thank you! The -keep made all the difference in the world. It didn't create the ./intsaller directory otherwise.

Cheers,
Dizzy V

Glad to be of help dizzy_vee.

I've had a quick look at kvgeorge's prob and i have no idea. i click on the link above and I go straight to the file (works in epiphany, galeon, mozilla, lynx) . I have not seen your installer error. I would try downloading the file again from the original location and follow the above steps closely.

Good luck

Hey guys - Im having the same error as stated above. The line 133 thing, I don't get it. I think maybe its a courrupt download, as the two with the problem have downloaded from the same source. But where am I supposed to get the driver? Its not on Lexmarks site any longer, and ive tried this download repeatedly. ANY suggestions would be welcome.

AxExP

Well I found this thread in the endless search to try and get my x1150 printer to work. I was wondering if anyone had any new insight on this issue? I am using redhat 9 also, and I can't seem to find the z600 driver mentioned above, anyone know where to hunt that down at? Thanks

Hmmm,

I checked out the Lexmark link and it looks like they have pulled the driver, however i tried the other link posted above and not only is it still OK but the shell script runs fine here.

I managed to replicate the error you guys are getting by hacking the script. I inserted a line between 132 and 133 to echo the command that it was running (and disabled the checksums)

[blake@shmoopy lexmark]$ ./z600cups-1.0-1.gz.sh -keep
Creating directory installer
Verifying archive integrity...Error in check sums 1677675259 225780837
OK
Uncompressing Lexmark Printer Driver
running "./install ; res=1"
./z600cups-1.0-1.gz.sh: line 134: ./install: No such file or directory
The program returned an error code (127)

I have NFI why that would kill it but it clearly does. It appears to me that the script gets its working directories confused and tries to run the "install" script that is in the installer directory.

It might be worth trying extracting the stuff to another explicitly named directory ... This is what I get out of the tar ball linked to by kvgeorge

[blake@shmoopy blah]$ ./z600cups-1.0-1.gz.sh -help
1) Getting help or info about ./z600cups-1.0-1.gz.sh :
./z600cups-1.0-1.gz.sh -help Print this message
./z600cups-1.0-1.gz.sh -info Print embedded info : title, default target directory, embedded script ...
./z600cups-1.0-1.gz.sh -lsm Print embedded lsm entry (or no LSM)
./z600cups-1.0-1.gz.sh -list Print the list of files in the archive
./z600cups-1.0-1.gz.sh -check Checks integrity of the archive

2) Running ./z600cups-1.0-1.gz.sh :
./z600cups-1.0-1.gz.sh [options] [additionnal arguments to embedded script]
with following options (in that order)
-confirm Ask before running embedded script
-keep Do not erase target directory after running embedded script
-target NewDirectory Extract in NewDirectory

[blake@shmoopy lexmark]$ ./z600cups-1.0-1.gz.sh -keep -target wibble
[blake@shmoopy blah]$ ls wibble/
globals.tcl* lexinstall* license* testpage xlexinstall* z600cups-1.0-1.i386.rpm
install* lexinstall.tcl* setup.tcl* usb.tcl* xlexinstall.tcl* z600llpddk-2.0-1.i386.rpm*


Other than that I cant seem to get the thing to break quite like you guys. Let me know if you have any better luck with a new directory name

Ok, thanks for pointing me towards the link. I did get the install script to run and everything went smoothly. However, when I try to actually print something, it does nothing. I don't hear any noises or anything from the printer, but the queue shows there is a job sent. Any more suggestions? Oh, and I also installed the 2 rpms inside the installer directory.

One thing I noticed is that I had to manually turn on the printer. Even then, if the drivers became corrupted, then I would have to do the install over again. I am using Fedora Core 1, so I do not know if 9.x has these issues or not.

well, I redid the download, but now I'm recieving some different errors:

[xpromsex@yeayeayea]::/somelistoffiolders/Printer# sh z600cups-1.0-1.gz.sh
Verifying archive integrity...OK
Uncompressing Lexmark Printer Driver............
./xlexinstall: error while loading shared libraries: libtcl8.3.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I haven't looked into it much but it looks as if the required libraries aren't installed. but the ./xlexinstall isnt a folder I recognize. (however, being relative newbie, this isn't surprising.) just thought I'd update with some progress.

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