plustek: HOWTO for Optic Pro 1236P (12000P/96000P)
Subject:
HOWTO for Optic Pro 1236P (12000P/96000P)
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Date:
7 Mar 2001 14:55:35 -0000
Message-Id: <14afQ3-2GyaZMC@fwd07.sul.t-online.com>
Hi List,
here's another small HOWTO, how Thierry managed to make his
Optic Pro 1236P to work with the driver.
It may help some of you...
Gerhard
> =================================
>
> How I managed a "Plustek OpticPro 1236P" flatbed scanned to work
under linux
>
> hardware :
> - Intel pentium 200 MMX based personnal computer
> - Plustek OpticPro 1236P flatbed scanner
> - Canon BJC1000 printer
> the parallel port is configured in EPP mode
> the scanner is connected to the pc's parallel port
> the printer is connected to the scanner's parallel port output
>
> software :
> a fresh linux red hat 7.0 install
> - kernel-2.2.16-22
> - gimp-1.1.25-1
> - gcc-2.96-54
> - sane-1.0.3-2
>
> I read "man sane-plustek" after installing sane.
> >From there I went on Gerhard Jaeger's site :
> "http://home.t-online.de/home/g-jaeger/plustek.html"
> then I got the plustek-module-0_36_37_tar.gz file, because I have
sane-1.0.3
> and not 1.0.4
> I untared the tar ball in my home directory
>
> I read the plustek_driver/INSTALL file (coming from the tar ball)
> it describes installation steps with a special case for SANE-1.0.3
and higher
> I followed the instructions : "make", "make install", update
> /etc/modules.conf,
> then "make load".
>
> But it didn't work !
>
> what I did to make it work :
>
> 1) when i tried "modprobe pt_drv" the system complained about a
> "/lib/modules/2.2.16-22/modules.dep" older than "/etc/modules.conf".
it also
> complained about unknown symbols.
> then I tried to preload parport module with "insmod parport", but I
got the
> same kind of messages though a little less. after some analysis I
tried to
> preload parport_pc too. It worked better but still not fine. so I
endly
> updated "/lib/modules/2.2.16-22/modules.dep" manually and added the
> following two lines
>
> /lib/modules/2.2.16-22/misc/pt_drv.o:
> /lib/modules/2.2.16-22/misc/parport.o \
> /lib/modules/2.2.16-22/misc/parport_pc.o
>
> after this one
>
> /lib/modules/2.2.16-22/misc/pt.o:
/lib/modules/2.2.16-22/misc/paride.o
>
> this made everything work fine, concerning the loading of the driver
>
> 2) when i ran "scanimage -L" i saw no device
> it looks like the "make load" installation phase did not create the
special
> files in /dev. so I did it manually :
>
> "mknod /dev/pt_drv c 40 0",
> "mknod /dev/pt_drv0 c 40 0",
> "mknod /dev/pt_drv1 c 40 1"
>
> and so on until 3.
> I also chmoded them
>
> "chmod 664 /dev/pt_drv*"
>
> as the make process should have done it.
>
> so, as a summary, I updated the modules dependency file manually, and
created
> the devices manually.
>
> now, the "scanimage -L" reports happily : "device
'plustek:/dev/pt_drv' is a
> Plustek 12000P/96000P Driver-Version 0.36 flatbed scanner"
> (althought it is a 1236P...)
>
> I tested it with "xsane" and it works fine
>
> I tried to add xsane as a GIMP plug-in (by linking it in the plugin
directory
> "ln -s /usr/bin/xsane ~/.gimp-1.1/plug-ins/"), but it doesn't work.
GIMP
> complains :
> querying module: "/root/.gimp-1.1/plug-ins/xsane"
> /root/.gimp-1.1/plug-ins/xsane: GIMP support missing
> LibGimp-WARNING **: gimp: wire_read: unexpected EOF
>
> strangely I tried the same thing with xscanimage which works fine !
the only
> problem with xscanimage as a gimp plugin is that I can't get a
preview nor
> change the scan window.
>
> maybe i should try a new version of sane/xsane ?
>
> resources :
> http://home.t-online.de/home/g-jaeger/plustek.html
> http://www.wolfsburg.de/~rauch/sane/sane-xsane.html
>
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>
