plustek: My experience on installation
Subject:
My experience on installation
From:
MnK ####@####.####
Date:
4 Jun 2000 19:46:50 -0000
Message-Id: <393AB72F.BEB69502@innocent.com>
On Gerhards urging, I am writing to explain my installation experiences
with the plustek driver for Sane.
First off, the hardware:
AMD K6-2 200mhz
64mb SDRAM
3 seperate HDs (1.2 - 12GB)
Plustek OpticPro 9636T
Software:
Mandrake 7.0 (2.2.14-15mdk) w/KDE 1.1.2 and Xfree86 4.0.0 (I built
originally on 3.3.6)
gcc version 2.95.2
Sane 1.0.1
plustek0.35
First off, I could not get the driver to work with Sane 1.0.2. This
might have been due to some problems with my specific setup, but once I
switched to 1.0.1 things were much smoother.
I deleted all previous sane/plustek builds that I had tried.
1. opened up sane1.0.1 (tar xvfz sane-1.0.1.tar.gz)
2. copied the plustek tarball to the sane/backend directory (cp
plustek0.35.tgz sane-1.0.1/backend)
3. opened the plustek driver up (tar xvfz plustek0.35.tgz)
4. went back up to the sane directory (cd ../..)
5. configured sane (CFLAGS="-g -O -Wall" ./configure
--prefix=/usr/local)
6. dropped into the sane/backend/plustek_driver directory (cd
backend/plustek_driver)
7. made and installed the plustek driver (make, make install, make
load). This is where I had trouble. The driver would not load this way
make load
make -f MakeKernel load
make[1]: Entering directory `/sane-1.0.1/backend/plustek_driver'
/sbin/modprobe pt_drv || exit 1
/lib/modules/2.2.14-15mdk/misc/pt_drv.o: init_module: Device or resource
busy
make[1]: *** [load] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/sane-1.0.1/backend/plustek_driver'
make: *** [load] Error 2
No joy. Mainly what failed here was the creation of the /dev/pt_drv
that is essential to the driver operating.
/usr/local/bin/scanimage -L
[plustek] dev_open: can't open /dev/pt_drv as a device
[plustek] attach: open failed: Error during device I/O?
8. This isn't a problem though. Just make the dev entry yourself
(mknod /dev/pt_drv c 40 0).
9. Now load the driver with insmod -f pt_drv
/usr/local/bin/scanimage -L
device `plustek:/dev/pt_drv' is a Plustek 9636T Vers = 0.35 flatbed
scanner
10. Scan to your heart's content.
Hopefully this helps someone else out there get their Plustek up and
running under Sane.
Thanks again to Gerhard, Rick, Mark, Kevin, and Alejandro for the work.
A special thanks to Christian for sending the test devices to Gerhard.
Mark
