[sane-devel] Help needed diagnosing strange failure to scan with Samsung SCX-4500W

2013-06-27 Thread Mike Cloaked
On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 5:20 PM, Mike Cloaked wrote: > Hi Thorsten > > > On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 11:25 AM, Thorsten M?ller < > thorsten at mueller-kleinheinz.de> wrote: > >> >> I just did a quick google search. Since I don't know how archlinux >> handles logins and security, I cannot offer lots of

[sane-devel] Help needed diagnosing strange failure to scan with Samsung SCX-4500W

2013-06-14 Thread Thorsten Müller
Hello Mike, Am Donnerstag, 13. Juni 2013, 16:26:45 schrieb Mike Cloaked: > On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 2:26 PM, Thorsten M?ller wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I don't know if your problem still exists since it's about a month > > back you wrote about it, but I did not find any post regarding a > > solutio

[sane-devel] Help needed diagnosing strange failure to scan with Samsung SCX-4500W

2013-06-13 Thread Thorsten Müller
Hello, > I made a typo in my last post which I will correct below: > > I am wondering now about udev more than libusb - > > > > In /lib/udev/rules.d/53-sane.rules > > > > there is a rule for the scanner: > > > > # Samsung SCX-4500W > > ATTRS{idVendor}=="04e8", ATTRS{idProduct}=="342b", MODE="06

[sane-devel] Help needed diagnosing strange failure to scan with Samsung SCX-4500W

2013-05-10 Thread Mike Cloaked
On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 9:20 AM, Mike Cloaked wrote: I made a typo in my last post which I will correct below: > > I am wondering now about udev more than libusb - > > In /lib/udev/rules.d/53-sane.rules > > there is a rule for the scanner: > > # Samsung SCX-4500W > ATTRS{idVendor}=="04e8", ATTRS{

[sane-devel] Help needed diagnosing strange failure to scan with Samsung SCX-4500W

2013-05-10 Thread Mike Cloaked
On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 1:58 AM, Theodore Kilgore < kilgota at banach.math.auburn.edu> wrote: > > This is weird. The "configuration and setup of the printer allegedly > fails, but it works? > Indeed! However I am now wondering if this is due to a udev conflict - I will add details further down.

[sane-devel] Help needed diagnosing strange failure to scan with Samsung SCX-4500W

2013-05-09 Thread Mike Cloaked
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 8:00 PM, Mike Cloaked wrote: > > As above - printer is hooked up to laptop which is then booted - scanning > works fine. The printer is not set up on that machine. > > When I plugged the printer back into the desktop after running the laptop test the system log contains:

[sane-devel] Help needed diagnosing strange failure to scan with Samsung SCX-4500W

2013-05-09 Thread Mike Cloaked
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 7:49 PM, Mike Cloaked wrote: > Hi Theodore > > >> When you successfully scan on the laptop, when did you hook up the >> scanner? Before booting? Or after? >> >> After booting. > I just ran a new test with the printer already plugged in during boot - the scanner worked fine.

[sane-devel] Help needed diagnosing strange failure to scan with Samsung SCX-4500W

2013-05-09 Thread Theodore Kilgore
(answer at bottom) On Thu, 9 May 2013, Mike Cloaked wrote: > On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 8:00 PM, Mike Cloaked > wrote: > > As above - printer is hooked up to laptop which is then booted - > scanning works fine. The printer is not set up on that machine.? > > > When I plugged the printer back int

[sane-devel] Help needed diagnosing strange failure to scan with Samsung SCX-4500W

2013-05-09 Thread Mike Cloaked
Hi Theodore Thank you very much for your long reply - much of what you say sounds right to me, and indeed I had wondered myself whether there was a conflict "somewhere" between the printer and scanner support within the system but I don't know how to resolve it. I have googled and found a number o

[sane-devel] Help needed diagnosing strange failure to scan with Samsung SCX-4500W

2013-05-09 Thread Mike Cloaked
On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 9:12 PM, Mike Cloaked wrote: > I have a strange scanner failure to try to resolve, and I am hoping that > an expert on this list may be able to help me fix the problem. > > I have a Samsung SCX-4500W multifunction printer that is plugged in to the > usb port of my main mach

[sane-devel] Help needed diagnosing strange failure to scan with Samsung SCX-4500W

2013-05-09 Thread Theodore Kilgore
Hi Mike, I have been a subscriber to this list for years, but I have to give first a specific disclaimer. I am not a developer for sane, nor any regular contributor. But I have been active for years in the Gphoto project and also have written several kernel drivers for webcams. Most particularl

[sane-devel] Help needed diagnosing strange failure to scan with Samsung SCX-4500W

2013-05-09 Thread m. allan noah
Try uninstalling or disabling your print driver, or anything else that might be trying to talk to the scanner. allan On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 11:50 AM, Mike Cloaked wrote: > On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 9:12 PM, Mike Cloaked > wrote: >> >> I have a strange scanner failure to try to resolve, and I am h

[sane-devel] Help needed diagnosing strange failure to scan with Samsung SCX-4500W

2013-05-06 Thread Mike Cloaked
I have a strange scanner failure to try to resolve, and I am hoping that an expert on this list may be able to help me fix the problem. I have a Samsung SCX-4500W multifunction printer that is plugged in to the usb port of my main machine running arch linux x86_64. The printer part works fine wit