[cups.general] Konica/Minolta 2430DL Network Printer solution forX86_64 systems

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 13 March 2007, David de Beer wrote:
>The manual that came on the printer's CD together with the actual driver
> gave no solution on the problems with an x86_64 system.
>
>John's solution works well with the 2430DL.
>He released me from a severe headache.
>NB 1) the symlink's spelling: rastertokm2430dl  (rastEr as in install
> list) NB 2) an already installed 2430DL should be deleted in Yast (or
> whatever tool your distro uses) and reinstalled before the symlink
> works.
>
>Just received a mail from KonicaMinolta on my support ticket concerning
> this matter, indicating that a 64 bits driver will not be expected
> within short term. To make clear they take Linux compatibility serious
> they attached the driver's source code.
>
>Alas, no developer here, but I appreciate being taken serious.
>
David, I think it goes without saying that IF you aren't under any NDA's 
with that source code, it would be appreciated if it was relayed to a 
developer who could bring it up to 64 bit compliance.  As to who that 
might be on this list, I've not a good idea other than it sure isn't me, 
my wet ram is getting a bit grey these days, expected at my age I think.

What license does it carry?  That also determines whether or not its even 
viewable by someone else.

>David
>OpenSuSE 10.2 (both x86 and x86_64)
>
>> Hello List!
>>
>> I recently installed OpenSuSE 10.1 X86_64 on a new Athlon 64 based
>> system, when all was said and done the system would not print.  Any
>> print job sent to network printer went to never land and the only
>> message in the error log of cups was the pid ended with status 22.
>>
>> Johannes pointed out that the failed pid was
>> /usr/lib64/cups/filter/rastortokm2430dl.
>
>During the setup of the system I installed the
>
>> magicolor2430DL-1.5.0-1.i386.rpm system downloaded from the
>> Koni> ca/Minolta web site, and the contents of that package are listed
>> below:
>>
>> /usr/lib/cups/filter/rastertokm2430dl
>> /usr/share/KONICA_MINOLTA/mc2430DL/COPYING
>
>...
>
>..
>
>The corrected symlink:
>> ln -s /usr/lib/cups/filter/rastertokm2430dl
>> /usr/lib64/cups/filter/rastertokm2430dl
>
>..
>
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