More grief from SCX-4200 MFP

Posted on April 14, 2009 | Category: Printers & Scanners, SCX-4200

I thought I had it sussed. (see SCX-4200 Unified Linux Driver in Hardy Heron: Success at last)

It was going fine under Hardy, but then I did a clean install back in the winter and didn’t bother reinstalling the printer as I was sick for quite a while and then had a loan of a windows printer and installed the windows version instead. But now I need the Linux version so I went full of confidence to the Samsung Download Centre.
Incidentally the link I had in the post mentioned above didn’t work. That may be my fault but I think there is a new page. ie Samsung Download Centre. I was delighted to see that the driver build date was 2009-04-03, or April 3, 2009.

That must mean it’s vastly improved, right?

So I followed the instructions but didn’t think of plugging in the printer till the last moment, so maybe that’s my fault too. But I don’t think this is my fault. I tried to uninstall, having done a chmod -R 777 to enable an uninstall, as was my previous experience.

username-laptop:/home/username/cdroot/Linux# ./uninstall.sh

Failed to load widget from

QMutex::unlock: unlock from different thread than locker
was locked by 0, unlock attempt from -1222330688
root@username-laptop:/home/username/cdroot/Linux#

What in the name of all that’s holy does that mean?

It Failed to load widget from cdroot/Linux/i386/share/ui/uninstalldialogbase.ui because the widget isn’t there. All that’s in cdroot/Linux/i386/share is a folder called images, which contains Testpage.ps. I have Show Hidden Files ticked, so it’s not that.

The Samsung is a lovely machine when it works, but I bought it because it claimed to work in Linux, and it seems you have to sell your grandmother and every other living ancestor to get a new version of the driver working.

Incidentally, under windows it comes with OCR. Just download the driver and install, no fuss. But no OCR and no dice under the antidiluvian Linux configurator. For the record, the help pdf hasn’t been updated either, and the graphic Uninstall Samsung Unified Driver on the Applications menu is useless, because you can’t uninstall unless you’re the god-forsaken root.

If I try to print a file from say the text editor, SCX-4200 is there all right, but so is CLP-300splc, which is what is in the configurator. Never heard of it. I’ve set SCX-4200 as default but no dice.

So here I am back where I started when I got the godforsaken MFL in the first place. I feel like an idiot and I probably am.

However, just as I was about to completely despair, I found this measured solution in Ubuntu Forums by nickpaton. It’s dated February 1st, 2009, and for Intrepid Ibex, so I’m hopeful, but too tired to go through the detail just now. I suspect I’ll have to somehow uninstall the unified driver first, but we’ll see. More anon.

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