[sane-devel] the samsung scx-4200 works with the xerox mfp driver

[m. allan noah]

tag- you're it.


allan

On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 11:43 PM, db<db.pub.mail at gmail.com> wrote:
> It would be nice if some one passed this information onto the ubuntu
> guys too, can't see xerox mfp backend in 9.04 (at least the on the
> live cd version of sane ;) )
>
> 2009/6/25 m. allan noah <kitno455 at gmail.com>:
>> It sounds like we need to collect the USB id's of all the possible
>> machines, and add them to the backend's .desc and .conf.in files. The
>> id's can usually be found by looking in .inf files in the unzipped
>> windows driver packages. Any volunteers?
>>
>> allan
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 5:55 AM, Michael Whapples<mwhapples at aim.com> wrote:
>>> This is good to hear, I suspected this might be the case some time ago
>>> (possibly a month or so) when I tried the xerox backend with my samsung
>>> CLX-3170fn. There may be some bugs for some devices, eg. when I first tried
>>> my CLX-3170fn the xerox backend crashed the device when the last page had
>>> passed through the ADF when using scanadf if you didn't inform it of number
>>> of pages being that of the pages available or less. This particular problem
>>> is corrected in git, but you never quite know what other devices might do.
>>>
>>> As for the official samsung drivers, you must be joking if you would want to
>>> use them, they seem to be out of date by quite a bit with sane and don't
>>> work with the current release.
>>>
>>> It would be good to make it more widely known that the xerox backend of sane
>>> supports samsung devices and should possibly be enabled for samsung devices
>>> by default.
>>>
>>> May be some time samsung will realise there are opensource alternatives
>>> which work and so support that, rather than creating closed source linux
>>> drivers which they must maintain to keep up to date (which they don't seem
>>> to have done).
>>>
>>> Also I will just say I am also talking as a user here.
>>>
>>> Michael Whapples
>>> On -10/01/37 20:59, db wrote:
>>>>
>>>> the samsung scx-4200 works with the xerox mfp backend, i suspect that
>>>> this driver will work for other samsung's too. Perhaps it would be
>>>> wise to make it the default (samsung's proprietary driver performs
>>>> ugly hacks .. so as long as users can install that one if this
>>>> fails...) then more feedback should result. At the present time there
>>>> is little on google / anywhere on using a open source scanning driver
>>>> (i already use splix and thats now in ubuntu).
>>>>
>>>> I hope that the xerox mfs backend can be turned on for samsung
>>>> scanners .. that are out on the market atm.
>>>> (it just worked for tm ^^).
>>>> Yes i know there are problems with this... but... (anyways i'm just a
>>>> subscriber to report this message its up to you guys ;) ).
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ->
>>>>  cat /etc/sane.d/xerox_mfp.conf
>>>> #xerox_mfp.conf
>>>>
>>>> #Dell MFP Laser Printer 1815dn
>>>> usb 0x413c 0x5124
>>>>
>>>> #Xerox Phaser 6110MFP
>>>> usb 0x0924 0x3d5d
>>>>
>>>> #added!
>>>> #scx4200
>>>> usb 0x04e8 0x341b
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
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