#INTERNET DRIVERS FOR UBUNTU DRIVER#
#INTERNET DRIVERS FOR UBUNTU MANUAL#
#INTERNET DRIVERS FOR UBUNTU LICENSE#

debs (the LSB DDK takes care that the maintainer scripts work with both RPM and DEB). The packages will be automatically alienized to also have. Binary packages will be available as distribution-independent LSB-3.2-based packages.

#INTERNET DRIVERS FOR UBUNTU DRIVER#

To fulfill security and quality standards of the distributions we will apply the followingД«inary printer driver packages and also PPD files (for PostScript printers) will be hosted on the OpenPrinting web site.

The driver packages are distribution-independent LSB-based RPMs. Now system-config-printer gets triggered to go on, so that the queue gets set up or the setup gets aborted if the printer is unsupported or the user did not like the available driver. After that, or if the user cancels or if no driver was found, the driver manager closes and returns a success or failure, in success case also which driver was loaded, via DBUS.

#INTERNET DRIVERS FOR UBUNTU LICENSE#

The user selects the driver, accepts the license (if needed for the driver), and if he agrees with the download and installation of the driver he clicks 'OK' or 'Next' and the driver gets downloaded and installed. Then descriptions (and if needed also license text) of the drivers are presented to the user in a GUI, containing the info in the gray boxes at the top of a driver entry page on the OpenPrinting web site. The call is accompanied by identity information about the printer (IEEE-1284 device ID, if not available make and model).ДЄ driver manager, in our case Jockey, will catch the DBUS call and query the OpenPrinting database via its web query API to get answered back which drivers are available for the printer. In the case that these functions do not find an appropriate driver, a DBUS request will be sent telling that a piece of hardware was found for which there is no driver. In any case functions of system-config-printer will try to assign a locally installed driver to the printer and set up a CUPS queue.

#INTERNET DRIVERS FOR UBUNTU MANUAL#

The automatic download will be triggered by the auto-detection and/or manual selection of a printer by the hal-cups-utils or by using the add-printer wizard of system-config-printer. User C has a new printer whose driver is not yet in the release of the distribution that they are using.ДЄll Linux distributions, depending on implementation progress starting with Ubuntu Intrepid.User B has a printer for which the manufacturer supplies a closed-source driver which distributions cannot ship.User A has an uncommon printer for which there are no drivers in their distribution.Giving easy access to drivers from an external source will widen the scope of printers which will 'just work' a lot. Many printers do not get set up automatically straight away due to their drivers not being shipped with the distribution. It is not reasonable to expect all distributions to be completely up to date all of the time, yet users expect to be able to use a brand new printer straight away. Printer drivers are continually being created or updated - especially as new printers can come out at any time between distribution releases. Packages affected: system-config-printer, Jockey, printer drivers/PPDs shipped on the CDs Automatic download of printer drivers through the internet

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