kvgeorge, do you have the 1150 working under fedora? If so, what exactly did you do and what do you mean "manually turn the printer on?" Thanks, hope to figure this out soon.

When operating systems like Windows startup, they also start services like printing. The drivers for Windows actually sends a wakeup signal to the printer to "turn-on" the printer. However, if you restart/shutdown a LINUX system, the power-off signal is sent to the device and it shuts-down, but does not "wake-up" when the machine is turned-on - likely to be the driver, not the OS (LINUX is far superior than windows...IMHO).

Yes, I do have it working under FC1. All I did was to download the driver from the link above and follow the directions offered above. Now, you will have to have the printer turned-on and it may/maynot detect that the printer is installed, but just accepting the defaults was good enough for my system. Also, things like SCANNING/COPYING will not work - someone has to undertake creating a better driver. I do remember that the "-keep" switch is required to get the drivers to install properly.

Well, I am not sure maybe RH and fedora are different on this because I have done exactly as the above directions suggested, but still no printing. I am not sure what else to try, anyway if anyone has anymore suggestions be sure to let me know. Thanks

Do you have all the required updates from RHN?

Well I let my RHN username/etc run out about two months ago because I think I am going to put gentoo on this machine when school is out and I have the time because I really like gentoo on the other machines I use it for. What updates do you think I need, maybe I can hunt them down manually or something like that. When I installed the driver and the 2 rpms though, I didn't have any problems what so ever.

Well, this isn't only apparent in RH9 as I run Xandros 2.0 and still have had multiple problems with this driver. I ran it successfully once but didnt do the -keep switch and i now just have a bunch of unneeded files on here. The second attempt was the first that I posted on here about, and now my third error with this. If I wasnt paying off some damage to my truck, I would just buy a new one.

Dude you might want to refer to the previous solution regarding tcl/tk errors.

Also the -keep switch is only required if the script does not install automagically. On my machine the install script fails silently so it appears to work, but no printers are added. All the -keep does is prevents the temporary installer directory from being deleted. Follow the instructions and then after successful install you can manually delete the temp files.
If in doubt i would be using -keep and manually installing it.

Hope that helps

Nutted

Hi

thanks to all of you for putting so much info on this message-board, I managed after two months to finally install my printer. Only one problem left: driver goes to a maximum of 2400dpi while printer is capable of doing 4800dpi. But this is no longer a reason to keep my windows-partition maintained.

Everything that could go wrong went wrong, so I needed all of the extra information users have put on this forum, eg the driver for the z600 can, as far as I know, only be found on http://www.downloaddelivery.com/srfi...-1.0-1.TAR.gz, and the --nodeps options was also necessary, and I experienced another problem doing:

after doing "sh z600*", i got:
verifying archive integrity...OK
Uncompressing Lexmark Printer Driver................

and no installer-directory, so I also needed the -keep option after "sh ...."

then when having the installer-folder there and trying to install the rpm-file, it simply told me that it was installed already. Me happy, going to printerdrake, but no z600...

I simply removed the driver (rpm -e z600llpddk-2.0-1
and then: rpm -Uvh z600* --nodeps.

After this it was in printerdrake, and when I clicked ok for a test page, the stupid machine started making some noise and a beautiful test page came out. Glad I didn't throw the machine away after all, now still the scanner...

Am using Fedora Core 1 and can't get the driver to show up in the printer config file, I followed the directions from the postings exactly including the -keep but I can't seem to get this thing to work

(At start: sorry about my English ).
I made all as in 3rd post on this thread (by nutted - thanks!). And it looked like he wrote - but when I start printerdrake, there was still any printer Help!

Dunno if anyone's figured it out, but I found that if I moved the lexmark install file into /tmp and ran it from there, that got rid of the error.
Presumably, the script gets tripped up easily by certain directory names. (I'm guessing in my case the script broke due to the space character in "My Downloads".)

Also note: The install script expects your computer to have a compiler installed. It calls gcc.

./z600cups-1.0-1.gz.sh: line 133: ./install

try to copy z600cups-1.0-1.gz.sh to super user dir
and run again..