[sane-devel] Samsung SCX-4100 support proposal.

[ABC]

Hello Ilya Tumaykin,

Then you should go standard/hard way:
http://www.sane-project.org/contrib.html

-abc

On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 01:30:32AM +0300, Илья Тумайкин wrote:
> Thanks for your reply.
> 
> Of course I've already tried that with no luck at all.
> The short story of things that already was tried (all of them failed):
> 1. Added scanner's usb id to xerox_mfp.conf. Double checked udev rules for
> correctness. Blacklisted usblp and built SANE with usb support.
> 2. Got reports that SCX-4200 "just works" with latest Ubuntu. Checked
> patches for Ubuntu package. None of them were related, however I gave it a
> try with no luck.
> 3. Installed latest Ubuntu just to be sure and eliminate the fact that I
> could forgot some small detail.
> 4. Tried several different versions of Samsung's Unified Driver on my
> Gentoo and that clean Ubuntu I've just installed.
> There are several comments related to this issue in Gentoo's bugzilla under
> the name "Coacher": https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=139715
> However, it is not SANE related.
> 5. Recompiled 3.0.8 kernel with changed Makefile to make it 2.6.40.8:
> VERSION = 2
> PATCHLEVEL = 6
> SUBLEVEL = 40
> EXTRAVERSION = .8
> I'll also make a try with 3.1 later but I don'y think I'll be lucky. I was
> trying to trick Samsung's driver so it is not SANE related too.
> 
> The syptoms I have are the same after all this tries: when I plug in my MFP
> I see dmesg info message, can see udevd output, even have my printer
> working smoothly, but scanner is dead.
> 
> 2011/11/10 ABC <abc at telekom.ru>
> 
> > Hello Ilya,
> >
> > Try to add USB ids of your device to your xerox.conf
> > and try scanimage -L
> >
> > -abc
> >
> > On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 10:44:54PM +0300, Илья Тумайкин wrote:
> > > Hello everyone.
> > >
> > > I am a long time Linux user and Samsung SCX-4100 owner. In ancient times
> > > SANE didn't have support for my model or, for exmaple, SCX-4200, so I
> > used
> > > Samsung's binary driver. Now it is incompatible with modern 3.x kernels
> > and
> > > I think it's a turning point for me to drop it in favor of opensource
> > one.
> > > Since SCX-4200 and SCX-4600 are supported by xerox_mfp backend I hope it
> > > will be easier to add support for my scanner too. I send my call to devs
> > to
> > > help me achieve this mission. I have on my side Linux-powered machine,
> > > Samsung SCX-4100, good knowledge of C and willing to make my old flatbed
> > > working. Please guide me through. Where should I start?
> > >
> > > Best regards.
> > > Ilya Tumaykin.
> >
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