abel deuring schrieb: > Heiko Freundel wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> for the above mentioned MultiFunktionPrinter Samsung provides an Linux >> driver which should work with sane. This was a main reason for deciding >> for that MFP. I tried to use it with Ubuntu 10.0, but without success. >> >> Samsung just wrote me, that the driver was not testet with Ubuntu :-( >> >> At http://www.sane-project.org I just found the information, that there >> is an untested version of the driver. >> > > Where did you find this information? I just checked the page with > the list of scanners supported by the sane-backends package, and > could not find the word "Samsung". Only on the list of external > backends mentions Samsung. Additionally, I searched the current > source code from the CVS -- and found the SCX-4521F only in the > files describing external backends. > Yes, you are right: http://www.sane-project.org/lists/sane-backends-external.html#S-SAMSUNG > >> 1. How can Samsung have an driver and the sane-project has not? >> > > well, anybody, individuals as well as companies and other > organizations, are free to write Sane backends as they want to do > so. And nobody is forced to contribute a Sane backend to the > "backend collection" from the Sane project. Moreover, a manufacturer > like Samsung has the advantage to have easy access to relevant > programming information for the scanners (I don't know, if Samsung > provides this kind of information to independent developers). > > The Sane project will have "direct" support for Samsung devices only > if somebody starts the work on a special backend, or if some > scanner/MFP device turns out to be easily supportable by an existing > backend. > I know, that Samsung can do that. But the driver doesn't work with Ubuntu 10.0. Samsung told me, that it wasn't tested with Ubuntu. Two days ago I asked with which distributions it was test. I'm still waiting for an answer.
I don't have the knowledge for writting printer drivers, but if the driver works with other distributions, it shouldn't be that much change? Is there an for an beginner understandable howto which I can use do the changes by myself? Thanks Heiko
