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 15:29:56 -0000
Message-Id: <1011021585.6776.34.camel@family.kungfu-tse.net>
On Mon, 2002-01-14 at 12:52, Jaeger, Gerhard wrote:
> On Montag, 14. Januar 2002 13:29, John Mellor wrote:
> > 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!
>
> Use usbmgr!
> Alter its configuration at /etc/usbmgr. The file is called usbmgr.conf...
> Grep inside for scanner and there you have a lot of examples...
> Now on every reboot or if you plug-in the scanner, the module should
> be loaded autmatically...
>
> Gerhard
>
Don't have a /etc/usbmgr!
