How do I supply a correct pdd

Enrique Perez-Terron enrio at online.no
Mon Jul 25 19:06:47 PDT 2005


I am the author of the "recommended" driver for the lexmark x74 printer.

I just installed my driver on a new computer and found the fedora system  
came up with another .ppd file than the one I installed in  
/usr/lib/cups/models.

It does not work. Foomatic-rip decides on an empty command line.

Placing my ppd file in /etc/cups/ppd works.

I am unable to figure out where the incorrect ppd comes from. I am  
despairing over the opacity of the configuration engines we are having  
these days. Where do I even begin getting information about them? I can't  
even locate a project home page for alchemist, and the only documentation  
page in the package is a README containing the words "intentionally blank  
until there are som docs".

I remember I once (years ago) found a web page at cups.org (or was it  
linuxprinting?) where one could submit data about a printer model, but now  
I just cannot find back to it. Still I suspect it is there somewhere and  
is responsible for this misery.

Can somebody please provide me a pointer or a hint?

Thanks,
Enrique




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