plustek: problem getting Epson 1250 to work...
Subject:
Re: problem getting Epson 1250 to work...
From:
Gene Heskett ####@####.####
Date:
23 Jul 2002 21:55:58 -0000
Message-Id: <200207231734.47233.gene_heskett@iolinc.net>
On Tuesday 23 July 2002 12:54, Mark Cianfaglione wrote:
>I'm having a problem getting my Epson 1250 to work. I've compiled
> into the kernel the USB support and the scanner support as a
> module.
>
>When the machine boots it detects it but does not add an entry
> into the /proc/bus/usb directory (filename "devices")
>
>After doing the "modprobe scanner scanner vendor=0x4b8
> product=0x10f" line I can detect the scanner with the
> sane-find-scanner utility. It states correctly that the scanner
> is /dev/usb/scanner0. When I try to run it I get a message saying
> that scanimage (or whatever frontend I use) cannot find the
> scanner...
>
>I'm using the plustek-sane-0_42_9.tar.gz and
> sane-backends-1.0.8.tar.gz
>
There is a slightly newer backend, 43_1 IIRC.
>when I do a man sane-plustek there is no mention of a usb epson
> scanner...
>
>Am I missing something really obvious...
Yeah, only its not that obvious. If you go check the plustek.conf
in (usually) /usr/local/etc/sane.d, you'll find it set for using
the parallel port, modify it to hit the usb port instead, using the
files own docs as a guideline.
--
Cheers, Gene
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