Comment 64 for bug 569190

OK, a few things here:
1) AL-CX11 *NEVER* *EVER* worked out-of-the-box, for me. In each and every Ubuntu version starting from 7.04, I think, up to 10.04.

2) Yes, it requires the driver from avasys.jp (see http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=973233)

3) How did I get it to work? compiling the driver didn't work for me. I have the printer set up as socket://192.168.1.11:9100, but it simply won't print; printer doesn't even wake up from standby (the "microswitch"--actually a relay--referred to in the above posts). Also, permissions are OK, directory OK as well. Cups access_log and error_log give no information: all seems to be well, document printed as far as cups is concerned--but the printer doesn't even wake up.

So, I tried ipp://192.168.1.11:631. Interesting, now I see a *lot* of stuff in the logs: if I remember correctly (it was very late last night), ps2pdf or something is started, and it aborts complaining that libstdc++5 is not found.

Well, it turns out that in 10.04 you have no libstdc++5, only libstdc++6 (and that's what I installed, according to the Ubuntuforums instructions).

Even the dirty trick of symlinking ++5 to ++6 didn't work. So I downloaded it from http://packages.ubuntu.com/intrepid/libstdc++5 and installed it.

Finally, I deleted the printer and reinstalled it through CUPS, resulting in the usual socket://192.168.1.11:9100 connection.

Works. There is always the issue of CUPS complaining that pstoalcx11.sh is not installed, but we just ignore it.

Now I will try reproducing on two more laptops, one with 10.04, other 10.04 Netbook Remix. I will try posting some logs as well.