plustek: sane-find-scanner does not find my UT12
Subject:
Re: sane-find-scanner does not find my UT12
From:
John Mellor ####@####.####
Date:
14 Jan 2002 12:32:47 -0000
Message-Id: <1011006848.1978.27.camel@family.kungfu-tse.net>
Thanks Gerhard. I investigated carefully and it seems that my original
Plustek driver was not installed, so I ended up with the parallel port
one contained within sane itself. Although I then edited the .conf file
there must have been something else that needed changing. I uninstalled
everything, reinstalled the rpm containing the Plustek patch and all was
well. A bonus was that everything must have been put in a better place
because root in a terminal can now call up sane-find-scanner and
scanimage without needing the full path as it did before.
Scanimage still failed to find the scanner but I discovered this was
because the scanner was at /dev/usbscanner and scanimage was looking at
/dev/usb/scanner. I put a symlink from one to the other and all now
works fine, except that if I reboot or put the machine to sleep
something is lost and I have to do: "modprobe scanner" for scanimage to
find it again. I think a modification to the /etc/modules.conf file will
put this right although I an still researching quite how. Would you know
offhand?. The scanning works without a hitch. Thank you; my wife no
longer has to irritate me by rebooting to Windows for a scan!
On Mon, 2002-01-07 at 12:04, Jaeger, Gerhard wrote:
> Please go to my download-site at
> http://home.t-online.de/home/g-jaeger/plustek.html
> and check the download section either for the package
> plustek-sane-0_40_14.tar.gz
> and install this one according to the installation instructions or download
> the RPM of a patched SANE-1.0.6 from
> http://kyrian.ore.org/RPMS
> with the USB support...
>
> The original SANE-1.0.6 only contains a backend that is able to talk
> with a kernel-module that controls the Plustek-parallelport devices...
>
> Gerhard
>
>
> On Monday, 7. January 2002 01:22, John Mellor wrote:
> > Not quite sure what I have done (apart from obey Michael Hackel and
> > fiddle about a bit) but sane-find-scanner now "found USB scanner (vendor
> > = 0x07b3, product = 0x0017) at device /dev/usb/scanner".
> > Hooray. However, scanimage is still unable to connect to it. My
> > configuration file at /usr/local/etc/sane.d/plustek.conf reads:
> >
> > parport
> >
> > /dev/pt_drv
> >
> > I cannot see how this connects with /dev/usb/scanner. Can someone tell
> > me what is now wrong please?
> >
>
