https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=372151
User kssingvo@novell.com added comment
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=372151#c1
Klaus Singvogel changed:
What |Removed |Added
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Status|NEW |RESOLVED
Resolution| |INVALID
--- Comment #1 from Klaus Singvogel 2008-03-28 06:42:09 MST ---
Thanks for pointing us toward this.
But the drivers of Canon are not OpenSource, some important parts of the driver
functions are done in share libraries (and this part is not included as source
code).
Beside the important fact, that we cannot provide our usual service for such
drivers, e.g. working on security updates, as we don't have access to the
source code, there is another problem with these closed source code drivers.
As these libraries are only for i386 (32bit and Intel), we cannot provide
drivers for all of our supported platforms: x86_64 (e.g. AMD64), ppc64 (e.g.
MacBook), S390.
And there is another issue with this restriction: customers are not able to
connect several different Canon printers at their machine (but USB can do!) As
far as I know the libraries "overwrite" each other and are not compatible. So
customer can either connect and print to e.g. a Canon Pixma IP2500 or to a
Canon Pixma MP160, but not to both at the same time. We cannot fix this, as we
don't have access to the source code.
Therefore my suggested solution is that you might want to ask Canon if they can
give you openSUSE drivers?
BTW Please note that HP is able to write full OpenSource drivers and therefore
they are supported (included) by our distribution. If you don't get drivers
from Canon and you're not capable to build them by your own, you might want to
rethink if Canon is the right vendor for you? As said ... HP is fully supported
(since years).
Please reopen bugzilla, when Canon is able to provide full OpenSource code
drivers, and we will start to integrate them.
In the meantime I have to close this bug with INVALID.
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