plustek: driver plustek for umax 3450 usb scanner
Subject:
Re: driver plustek for umax 3450 usb scanner
From:
Gerhard Jaeger ####@####.####
Date:
9 Dec 2002 07:50:53 -0000
Message-Id: <200212090845.39713.gerhard@gjaeger.de>
Hi,
On Sonntag, 8. Dezember 2002 20:36, Hendra Ocborn wrote:
> hi...
> im newbie and wanna ask about umax 3450U driver. I
> followed your instruction and usinng plustek driver
> for my scanner. first i configured /etc/modules.conf
> and added new line with "option scanner vendor=0x1606
> product=0x0060" then at /etc/sane.d/plustek.conf, i
> added "[usb] 0x1606 0x0060" and "device
> /dev/usbscanner" (is it correct?).
YES and NO! It's only correct if /dev/usbscanner is a link to
/dev/usb/scanner0
> continued with command "modprobe scanner", "mknod
> /dev/usbscanner c 180 48", "chmod 666/dev/usbscanner".
> Then type "sane-find-scanner"....appear text "# No
> SCSI scanners found. If you expected something
> different, make sure that
> # you have loaded a SCSI driver for your SCSI
> adapter.
>
> found USB scanner (vendor=0x1606, product=0x0060) at
> /dev/usb/scanner0
-->> Here is the correct device node, use this one as
device entry in plustek.conf
> # Your USB scanner was detected. It may or may not
> be supported by
> # SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's
> manpage.
>
> # Scanners connected to the parallel port or other
> proprietary ports can't be
> # detected by this program.
>
> # You may want to run this program as root to find
> all devices. Once you
> # found the scanner devices, be sure to adjust
> access permissions as
> # necessary.
> "
> next command "scanimage -d plustek:/dev/usbscanner"
> appear...P6 #sane data follows 248 150 255
Great so /dev/usbscanner works as well. P6#... is the image data.
You should use scanimage -d plustek:/dev/usbscanner > img.pnm
to save the picture data.
> thats it....stop over here, when i tried to acquire
> with gimp, i only found xsane device dialog refered to
> xsane /dev/usb/scanner0.
> what can i do now?
Scan! All looks okay, so what. Can't you scan using xsane?
Try xscanimage...
Gerhard
