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

Sun Nov 13 11:47:55 UTC 2011

You mean I should step forward from Reporting Unsupported Scanners to the
next section Writing a Backend and start some coding?

13 ноября 2011 г. 13:56 пользователь ABC <abc at telekom.ru> написал:

> I will not help you on that. Please read
> http://www.sane-project.org/contrib.html
>
> -abc
>
> On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 06:29:29PM +0300, Ilya Tumaykin wrote:
> > I have no /proc/bus/usb, but here are the rest of the info I collected.
> Not
> > sure if I should add these files as attachements, so I uploaded it to
> > pastebin.ca.
> >
> > dmesg
> > http://pastebin.ca/2093986
> >
> > lsusb -vvv
> > http://pastebin.ca/2093987
> >
> > sane-find-scanner -v -v (from root)
> > http://pastebin.ca/2093988
> >
> > udevadm monitor --udev --kernel --property
> > http://pastebin.ca/2093989
> >
> > What is the next step?
> >
> > 2011/11/11 ABC <abc at telekom.ru>
> >
> > > 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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-- 
Best regards.
Ilya Tumaykin.
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