plustek: can't get scanner working
Subject:
Re: can't get scanner working
From:
"Jaeger, Gerhard" ####@####.####
Date:
24 Dec 2001 12:43:23 -0000
Message-Id: <01122413375900.00621@ruebennase>
Dave the problem seems to be, that your scanner isn't recognized!
I that case, the driver won't be loaded.
sane-find-scanner won't work with parallel-port devices, it only
address usb and scsi devices.
You might enable the debug messages in the driver
(uncomment the line debug=y in the Makefile) then load again
and send the output of dmesg to the list!
What else can you do:
You can play around with the BIOS settings, make sure to have EPP
or if that doesn't work SPP enabled.
You might need to disable the IEEE1284 functionality of hte parport
module in the kenre configuration, as this sometimes interferes with
the ASIC inside the Plustek scanner...
Hope this helps
Gerhard
On Monday, 24. December 2001 02:54, David McGlone wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I have a plustek 9636P parallel scanner, and running RH 7.2. I have removed
> all sane from my system and downloaded the sane-backends 1.0.6, sane
> frontends 1.0.6 and the newest xsane. I have also downloaded the
> plustek-module.
>
> I have installed sane over a darn million times and I can't seem to get my
> scanner working.
>
> here's what I did as per the instructions.
> I installed sane-backends 1.0.6 then I moved the plustek-module to the
> backend/plustek_driver and unpackaged it and did "make all" then as root
> "make install"
>
> ok at this point everything should be set to go, the instructions say to
> "make load", and the light comes on.
>
> now I install the sane-frontends 1.0.6 and the latest xsane.
>
> now scanner seems to be working, except xsane does not find it!
> so I resort to "sane-find-scanner" and still nothing. so I try scanimage -L
> and still nothing.
>
> can I please get some help here, I have installed and uninstalled and
> manually removed sane from all dirrectories and installed even more on both
> SuSE 7.1 and RH 7.2 with SuSE running the newest 2.4.16 kernel and RH
> running the 2.4.7-10 kernel.
>
> overall problem, I can get the scanner light on, but nothing else.
>
> Note: If problem is distro specific, I prefer suggestions for the RH
> machine.
>
> I have remove all sane from my system again and will install it again if I
> can get some help.
>
> if anyone would like to contact me thru aim my screen name is below
>
> Thanks
> David M.
> AIM: dmcglone27
>
