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    Quote Originally Posted by tweedledee View Post
    To everyone who has posted with USB scanner difficulties over the last few months: this is your problem. (And why they've always worked under Debian, which has this option enabled.) I have updated the first post to include this information and indicate how you can work around it, but none of the solutions are trivial. And please don't ask for assistance on how to compile your own kernel, there are many guides available.
    I found an alternative workaround for this issue on my Samsung SCX-4300 yesterday, and thought I'd share the wealth. It turns out that the Xerox MFP driver in libsane seems to work with some other scanners, including the Samsung SCX-4200 and SCX-4300. The original post where I found out about this is http://old.nabble.com/the-samsung-sc...d24196559.html.

    With a little bit of tinkering, I got this to work on my SCX-4300. All I needed to do was edit /etc/sane.d/xerox_mfp.conf, adding these lines:

    Code:
    #Samsung SCX-4300 
    usb 0x04e8 0x342e
    and then edit /lib/udev/rules.d/40-libsane.rules, inserting these lines toward the end of the file:

    Code:
    # Samsung SCX4300
    ATTRS{idVendor}=="04e8", ATTRS{idProduct}=="342e", ENV{libsane_matched}="yes"
    I don't know if there are other issues that might arise from using this driver, but it's easier than recompiling my kernel!

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    Re: HOWTO Install Samsung Unified Printer Driver

    Quote Originally Posted by ezekiel_quacks View Post
    I found an alternative workaround for this issue on my Samsung SCX-4300 yesterday, and thought I'd share the wealth.
    Thanks for sharing. I've updated the main guide to include this information.

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    Re: HOWTO Install Samsung Unified Printer Driver

    Quote Originally Posted by ezekiel_quacks View Post
    I found an alternative workaround for this issue on my Samsung SCX-4300 yesterday, and thought I'd share the wealth. It turns out that the Xerox MFP driver in libsane seems to work with some other scanners, including the Samsung SCX-4200 and SCX-4300. The original post where I found out about this is http://old.nabble.com/the-samsung-sc...d24196559.html.

    With a little bit of tinkering, I got this to work on my SCX-4300. All I needed to do was edit /etc/sane.d/xerox_mfp.conf, adding these lines:

    Code:
    #Samsung SCX-4300 
    usb 0x04e8 0x342e
    and then edit /lib/udev/rules.d/40-libsane.rules, inserting these lines toward the end of the file:

    Code:
    # Samsung SCX4300
    ATTRS{idVendor}=="04e8", ATTRS{idProduct}=="342e", ENV{libsane_matched}="yes"
    I don't know if there are other issues that might arise from using this driver, but it's easier than recompiling my kernel!

    I've checked your advice, and scanner is working at the first time only. When i type scanimage -L at first time after reboot, scanner is found. But when i type scanimage -L again, scanner is now not found ;( I try to restart udev, saned, but nothing fixes the problem.

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    Re: HOWTO Install Samsung Unified Printer Driver

    Okay, i found another workaround.

    The thing is, you have to bind /dev/bus dir to /proc/bus, but in the way that do not overwrite /proc/bus data. So, i've wrote a little init.d script, that does all work for us.

    Code:
    #! /bin/sh
    # Samsung scanner procfs hack script 
    #
    
    case $1 in
            start)
                for dir in `ls /proc/bus`;
                do
                    mkdir /dev/bus/$dir > /dev/null 2>&1;
                    mount --bind /proc/bus/$dir /dev/bus/$dir ;
                done;
                mount --bind /dev/bus /proc/bus;
                ln -s /sys/kernel/debug/usb/devices /proc/bus/usb/devices;
                echo "procfs scanner hack is active \n";
            ;;
            stop)
                rm /proc/bus/usb/devices > /dev/null 2>&1;
                umount /proc/bus > /dev/null 2>&1;
                for dir in `ls /dev/bus`;
                do
                    umount /dev/bus/$dir > /dev/null 2>&1;
                done;
                echo "procfs scanner hack is inactive \n";
            ;;
    
            *)
                echo "Usage (start | stop) \n";
            ;;
    esac
    And it's working on new kernel. Hope this will help
    Last edited by n3ck; March 24th, 2010 at 09:56 AM.

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    Re: HOWTO Install Samsung Unified Printer Driver

    Quote Originally Posted by n3ck View Post
    Okay, i found another workaround.

    The thing is, you have to bind /dev/bus dir to /proc/bus, but in the way that do not overwrite /proc/bus data. So, i've wrote a little init.d script, that does all work for us.
    I've added this to the list of solutions.

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    Re: HOWTO Install Samsung Unified Printer Driver

    Quote Originally Posted by n3ck View Post
    I've checked your advice, and scanner is working at the first time only. When i type scanimage -L at first time after reboot, scanner is found. But when i type scanimage -L again, scanner is now not found ;( I try to restart udev, saned, but nothing fixes the problem.
    Hmm... I'm not sure what to say. I just typed scanimage -L five times in a row, and my computer had no problems seeing the scanner every time. But it looks like you found another workaround since, so I'm glad for you!

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    Re: HOWTO Install Samsung Unified Printer Driver

    I just noticed a process running, smfpd that is using ~10% CPU at all times. Is this related to the Samsung Unified Printer Driver that was recently, reluctantly installed?

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    Re: HOWTO Install Samsung Unified Printer Driver

    Quote Originally Posted by williamts99 View Post
    I just noticed a process running, smfpd that is using ~10% CPU at all times. Is this related to the Samsung Unified Printer Driver that was recently, reluctantly installed?
    It is the parallel port daemon, and I have no idea why it would be using any measurable amount of cpu time, unless perhaps you actually have something connected to your parallel port. If you used the samsung installer, you are stuck with it unless you want to manually deactivate the startup script in /etc/init.d/samsungmfp (although I don't know which set of commands cleanly does so with Ubuntu's upstart, unless it's the same as normal init.d) or delete the smfpd file itself from /usr/sbin.

    If you used my repository, just uninstall the -parallel package.

    Of course, all these solutions assume you don't actually have a printer connected via parallel port; if you do, you must (as far as I know) have this piece of the driver for it to work.

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    Re: HOWTO Install Samsung Unified Printer Driver

    Fellows,

    My CD got corrupted and I cannot find the driver anyhwere in the internet.
    In the office I work we need that printer and its up to me to install it in a Ubuntu desktop to act as the printing server.

    Im very glad that i see how to install, but i simply dont have the driver
    Please help.

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    Re: HOWTO Install Samsung Unified Printer Driver

    Quote Originally Posted by juniorx32 View Post
    Fellows,

    My CD got corrupted and I cannot find the driver anyhwere in the internet.
    In the office I work we need that printer and its up to me to install it in a Ubuntu desktop to act as the printing server.

    Im very glad that i see how to install, but i simply dont have the driver
    Please help.
    If you want to use the repository to install, you don't need the driver files at all. If you wish to use the installer directly to replace what was on your CD, you can get the US version from the repository web page. The localized versions (including the version I provide through the repository) can be downloaded at the appropriate Samsung country page, going to support -> downloads -> computer hardware -> printers & multifunction -> type & model of printer. The color laser / CLP-770 combination will (currently) give you the most recent driver, and works for every printer.

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