plustek: Suggestions on getting Epson 1250 usb scanner working
Subject:
Re: Suggestions on getting Epson 1250 usb scanner working
From:
Stealth Dave ####@####.####
Date:
16 Feb 2002 12:49:33 -0000
Message-Id: <1013863501.2641.32.camel@skull1.stealthdave.com>
On Sat, 2002-02-16 at 02:54, Gene Heskett wrote:
> I too have one of these beasts. One must either setup an alias
> in your modules.conf, or add it to the list in the kernels
> scanner.h and recompile, which is what I've done over the last
> 2-3 kernel upgrades. Unforch, I'm still running 2.4.17 because
> its the last one that will both build, and work with iptables.
I'm pretty confident that I have the kernel module set up correctly. As
I've said, sane-find-scanner finds the scanner with no problems.
However, no sane front-end (i.e. scanimage or xsane) can find it.
> Once you've done that so that your scanner is findable by
> sane-find-scanner (don't forget to fix your
> ???.sane.d/plustek.conf to point to only the usb stuff too)
> then backtrack up the archive of this list and get the entries
> for plustek-devs.c that almost work with mine. The lower
> resolutions (600dpi and down) are working fairly well if your usb
> hardware is, but leave the lamp on when quitting. For that you
> can cycle its power cord, or rerun it which will re-initialize it
> with the lamp off, then quit.
I looked back through the archives (oh, for a search feature!), and the
only article that I could come up with for reference was this:
http://www.linuxhacker.org/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3:mss:814:200112
It mentions changing the Cap and HW entries for the Epson 1250 from _2
on the end to _5. Well, the end of the Cap and HW entries in the most
recent patch are _0. Being fearless, I went ahead and changed them
anyway, and it failed to compile, because the pointer names had changed
(I think; my beginning C class in college was 9 years ago and I never
went further with it). So I changed the pointer names as well, it
compiled, and same result. I'm starting to think that I either
misunderstood the instructions, or they no longer apply to the most
recent builds. Could you take a look at it and shed some light on the
subject for me?
Thanks for your patience,
- Stealth Dave
> >Thanks,
> >- Stealth Dave
>
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> Cheers, Gene
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