plustek: scanimage will not find my UT12
Subject:
Re: scanimage will not find my UT12
From:
John Mellor ####@####.####
Date:
15 Mar 2002 14:14:13 -0000
Message-Id: <1016186547.2899.11.camel@family.kungfu-tse.net>
Thanks Gerhard, for such a prompt reply. I am still stuck, however. My
Plustek.conf file is exactly as it should be, and I have checked and
double checked the /dev/usbscanner business, as Aleksander pointed out.
I had exactly that problem when I first installed Sane 1.0.6 and had to
soft link /dev/usbscanner and /dev/usbscanner0 to /dev/usb/scanner.
Everything now appears to be OK. What is meant by 'can't open device
/dev/usbscanner as a device'? Is this the pointer to the problem? I
have tried replacing /dev/usbscanner in the .conf file with
/dev/usbscanner0 and /dev/usb/scanner but no luck.
I did discover the old 1.0.6 backends directory in my home folder
and deleted it, but no difference. I can find no trace of any other old
files. I have rebooted; and disconnected, reconnected the scanner as
well to no avail. It used to work, so I feel I must be missing something
simple.
On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 13:17, Jaeger, Gerhard wrote:
> John, the plustek-module is only needed if you have
> a parallel-port device.
> If scanimage won't find the scanner, then you have a problem
> with your configuration file plustek.conf, which is located
> at /etc/sane.d or /usr/local/etc/sane.d
> Then it depends on your kernel, if you use 2.4.12 or higher,
> you simply need the following:
>
> [usb]
> device /dev/usbscanner
>
> if you use an older kernel:
>
> [usb] 0x07B3 0x0017
> device /dev/usbscanner
>
> that's it.
> I think, that you have an older SANE installation, whoose configuration
> files have not been replaced by the newer ones
>
> Please check this.
> Gerhard
>
>
> On Dienstag, 12. März 2002 13:37, John Mellor wrote:
> > I installed the rpm and after some fiddling sane-find-scanner finds
> > a scanner at various places, two of which are links to the third.
> > Scanimage will not, however, and running it with 'export
> > SANE_DEBUG_PLUSTEK=12 produces the information that:
> >
> > can't open [usb] 0x07B3 0x0017 as a device
> > - then-
> > can't open device /dev/usbscanner as a device
> >
> > Help please!
> >
>
