[Foomatic] Please add my driver for the Lexmark X125 to the database

[Mark Roth]

Till,

How long will it take when you add the DB files for it to appear on the web
site?  As of this morning it's still not in the list.

Thanks,
Mark


In article <c12egd$1fi$1 at poblano.linuxprinting.org>, markroth8 at yahoo.com (Mark
Roth) writes:
> 
> Till,
> 
> Congrats on the release of 3.0.1!
> 
> I followed your advice on removing the '/' from my short names and my XML
files
> now work with 3.0.1rc3 (I assume they will still work on 3.0.1 final).
> 
> I also followed all the steps below and now have a set of files ready to be
> added to the database.	I created a new release of my driver, version 0.2.3,
> that contains the updated foomatic db files.  You can download it here in the
> files area:
> 
>   https://sourceforge.net/projects/x125-linux/
> 
> They're in the drv_x125/foomatic directory.
> 
> Please let me know if there's anything else you need before you can add the
> Lexmark X125 driver to the database.
> 
> Thanks!
> - Mark
> 
> 
> In article <mailman.1075991223.4760.foomatic-devel at linuxprinting.org>, Till
> Kamppeter <till.kamppeter at gmx.net> writes:
> > 
> > Do the following:
> > 
> > - Uninstall the Foomatic of your distro.
> > 
> > - Download Foomatic 3.0.1rc2 (foomatic-db-engine, foomatic-filters, 
> > foomatic-db) and install the packages.
> > 
> > - Read the README of foomatic-db-engine
> > 
> > - Add XML files for all printers on which your driver works. If there 
> > are already entries for some of the supported printers, update their 
> > text and recommended driver, and raise their rating to "Partially", 
> > "Mostly", or "Perfectly".
> > 
> > - Add a driver XML and option XMLs.
> > 
> > - Look into the existing XMLs to see how Foomatic XMLs have to llok like.
> > 
> > - Copy similar entries to have a start for new entries.
> > 
> > - Try out whether your new entries work.
> > 
> > - Send them to me and/or include them in your package. I will add them 
> > to linuxprinting.org
> > 
> >     Till
> > 
> > 
> > Mark Roth wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I've just released version 0.2.2 of my Lexmark X125 driver, which adds
> > > bi-directional printing support.
> > > 
> > > I think the driver is pretty stable - I've been printing with it for over
> one
> > > month and the driver has had 144 downloads.
> > > 
> > > How do I go about adding my driver to the foomatic database?
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > Mark
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> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> >