Problem solved ..xsane can scan and do OCR just fine using gocr, gocr-gtk, gocr-tk (whatever of these three, I just installed all of them)...all very simple ..except nobody seems to know and it's documented nowhere ..sigh ..the pleasures of Linux .. Kooka can go gooka .. :-) Cheers, Gert <div>On 11/4/06, claydoh <<a href="mailto:claydoh@claydoh.com">claydoh@claydoh.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On Friday 03 November 2006 2:00 am, Gert Gast wrote: > Hi all, > > Trying to run Kooka in Kubuntu with Samsung SCX-4100. Xsane runs fine, I > can scan from inside GIMP for example without problem.Printer ok as well. I > just want to get OCR scanning happening as well using Kooka or whatever.. > any ideas ? Here is the error message from the konsole > > Failed to open device > X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 154 > Major opcode: 143 > Minor opcode: 3 > Resource id: 0x0 > Failed to open device > insmod: can't read > '/lib/modules/2.6.15-27-386/kernel/drivers/mfpportctrl/mfpport.ko': No such > file or directory > KCrash: Application 'kooka' crashing... > > Any help would be highly appreciated ..else I have to OCR again from > Windows..yuk... > > Cheers, Gert I found this link that has some useful information: <a href="http://jacobo.tarrio.org/Samsung_SCX-4200_on_Debian">http://jacobo.tarrio.org/Samsung_SCX-4200_on_Debian </a> It seems that samsung is using a proprietary kernel module involving parallel ports, and as that module is missing, you are getting the error message. As you can scan properly, I think there is something else at issue here. Make sure you have an ocr or ocrad package installed, you can install gocr, which are in the Universe repository. I have not tried out either in quite some time, but I don't think you will get anywhere near the functionality or features you get from commercial OCR software. -- Clay Weber <a href="http://kubuntuforums.net">http://kubuntuforums.net</a> <a href="http://claydoh.com">http://claydoh.com</a> <a href="http://emacdogsports.com"> http://emacdogsports.com</a> -- kubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:kubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">kubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-users"> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div> -- _____________________'Making Internet Work for You'____________________ Dr Gert Gast -- CommunicationsDesign -- +61+2 66848 015, mobile 041 8260 834 48 Parkway Drive,Ewingsdale NSW 2481, Australia <mailto:<a href="mailto:gert.gast@gmail.com">gert.gast@gmail.com</a>>