plustek: scanimage will not find my UT12
Subject:
Re: scanimage will not find my UT12
From:
John Mellor ####@####.####
Date:
25 Mar 2002 12:08:28 -0000
Message-Id: <1017057767.18540.7.camel@family.kungfu-tse.net>
Gerhard,
It has taken me forever to sort this out, but essentially you were right
about it being an old installation causing the problem. However, I was
thrown off the scent by the fact that it was not old bits of
sane-backends, but a complete old libsane1. I replaced this with 1.0.7
and voila - I have a scanner! After, of course, the usual Catch 22
business of libsane1 needing sane-backends and sane-backends needing
libsane1 before either would install. I solved this by the
time-honoured method of lying and cheating (otherwise known as
--nodeps).
Thanks again for your trouble, and also to Aleksander who took
trouble to try and help me.
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 files have not been replaced by the newer ones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:
> > This may sound rather silly, but if I install the sane 1.0.7 rpm do I
> > also need the plustek module? If so, what do I do with it, as I seem to
> > no longer have a sane-backends directory in my home folder?
> > 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!
> >
>
