I need some advice regarding the installation of samsung scx-4200 scanner in ubuntu 9.10. I started to use ubuntu few months ago, after years of using win xp. Now I have ubuntu 9.10 and win xp installed on my machine (dual boot), but I'm anxious to learn about ubuntu as much as I can, so I can discard windows entirely.
My problem is that I can't get my scanner working in ubuntu. I've added #scx4200 usb 0x04e8 0x341b to /etc/sane.d/xerox_mfp.conf, but now I'm stuck. It seems that ubuntu detects scanner when I type "sane-find-scanner": # sane-find-scanner will now attempt to detect your scanner. If the # result is different from what you expected, first make sure your # scanner is powered up and properly connected to your computer. # No SCSI scanners found. If you expected something different, make sure that # you have loaded a kernel SCSI driver for your SCSI adapter. found USB scanner (vendor=0x04e8 [Samsung], product=0x341b [SCX-4200 Series]) at libusb:001:002 # Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be supported by # SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage. # Not checking for parallel port scanners. # Most Scanners connected to the parallel port or other proprietary ports # can't be detected by this program. The trouble is (to my knowledge) that I have Leadtek WinFast TV tuner card installed. So when I type "scanimage -L", I get: device `v4l:/dev/video0' is a Noname BT878 video (Leadtek WinFast 20 virtual device. When I run XSane image scanner, I get the same result - my scanner is Leadtek WinFast device. I would really appreciate some help on this matter, if possible step-by-step advice on what I should do. Google offers a lot of advices on how to do this thing using Samsung unified driver, but Michael wrote that samsung's proprietary driver performs ugly hacks, and I believe him. So... Thanks, Max
