plustek: Plustek OpticPro P12 and Red Hat 8
Subject:
Re: Plustek OpticPro P12 and Red Hat 8
From:
"Jaeger, Gerhard" ####@####.####
Date:
26 Oct 2002 13:25:14 -0000
Message-Id: <185Qs4-1LZDVoC@fmrl04.sul.t-online.com>
You might enable the debug messages of the driver
(recompile with option DEBUG=y --> make all DEBUG=y)
then reinstall and make load.
Send us the output of dmesg to see where the problem is.
If even Windoze does not find it, I suspect, that the scanner is dead...
Gerhard
On Saturday, 26. October 2002 00:48, Mikael Kujanpää wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Could somebody nice person tell me, what I'm doing wrong? I have, as
> mentioned at the subject:
> - Plustek OpticPro P12 with paraller port connection
> - Red Hat 8.0
>
> I'm using Sane-backends version 1.0.8. Paraller port is set to be in
> EPP-mode.
>
> The install procedure goes very nicely, until it's time to do "make load":
>
> [root@val143 plustek_driver]# make load
> /sbin/modprobe pt_drv || exit 1
> /lib/modules/2.4.18-17.8.0/misc/pt_drv.o: init_module: Success
> Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including
> invalid IO or IRQ parameters.
> You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg
> /lib/modules/2.4.18-17.8.0/misc/pt_drv.o: insmod
> /lib/modules/2.4.18-17.8.0/misc/pt_drv.o failed
> /lib/modules/2.4.18-17.8.0/misc/pt_drv.o: insmod pt_drv failed
> make: *** [load] Error 1
> [root@val143 plustek_driver]#
>
> At the same time, my scanner's light flashes. The parport -modules are
> loaded, but pt_drv isn't:
>
> [root@val143 plustek_driver]# /sbin/lsmod | grep parport
> parport_pc 19108 0
> parport 37152 0 [parport_pc]
> [root@val143 plustek_driver]# /sbin/lsmod | grep pt_drv
> [root@val143 plustek_driver]#
>
> Could whole scanner be broken? The scanner didn't work either at Windows
> (2000). If I remember correctly, the Windows drivers said "could not
> connect to scanner" or something like that.
>
> Please, ask more information if it's needed.
