plustek: problem getting Epson 1250 to work...
Subject:
Re: problem getting Epson 1250 to work...
From:
Gene Heskett ####@####.####
Date:
24 Jul 2002 18:15:48 -0000
Message-Id: <200207241355.59860.gene_heskett@iolinc.net>
On Wednesday 24 July 2002 10:31, Mark Cianfaglione wrote:
>Gene
>
>>Or you could rerun it using the iscan driver from epson which
>> will shut it off as it starts up. I currently have both
>> enabled, and xsane gives you a choice of which one to use as it
>> starts. Finding its power cord is inconvienient at best here...
>
>I should have mentioned it that the iscan program didn't work
> either.... I guess that leads into your next paragraph... I'll
> try that tonight...
I don't believe iscan will find it without the kernel rebuild I did
described below, or the right stuff edited into modules.conf. If
someone has that bit of additions to modules.conf, would you please
post them because not everyone will rebuild a bleeding edge kernel
at the drop of a very small hat like I do. I long ago made scripts
out of the pair of proceedures to do that, so its basicly an almost
no-brainer here. :-) A quick edit of /usr/src/buildit to change
the vars to suit the version numbers in each, a quick edit via a
make xconfig to reset the flippin clock to utc, an equally quick
edit of version numbers in /usr/src/linux/makeit, and run it. Run
the second script as ./makeit, fix /boot/grub/grub.conf and reboot.
If I'm not doing anything else, its < 20 minutes total. Humm, I
should add that scanner.h edit to those scripts I guess.
>
>>On the 'can't find it' subject, I've found that the most
>> foolproof method for me is to go into the linux/drivers/usb
>> kernel directory, and add the scanners ident stuff to scanner.h
>> in that directory, just add another line in exactly the same
>> style but with the ident numbers of 0x04b8, 0x010f, and its name
>> in the comment, then rebuild and reinstall the kernel. It will
>> then be seen in the /var/log/dmesg file that it was found on the
>> reboot.
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Cheers, Gene
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