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Hello,</div>
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I have a question about the use of a parallel port scanner (Epson Actionscanner II). In the past I did this and worked just fin:</div>
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<span>Remove comment for the Epson back-end here<br>
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<div>/etc/sane.d/dll.conf <br>
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<div>Modify this file to add port in the EPSON entry, in my old PC, the port was 0x378</div>
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<div> /etc/sane.d/epson.conf <br>
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<div># epson.conf<br>
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<div># here are some examples for how to configure the EPSON backend<br>
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<div># SCSI scanner:<br>
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<div>scsi EPSON<br>
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<div># for the GT-6500:<br>
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<div>scsi "EPSON SC"<br>
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<div># Parallel port scanner:<br>
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<div>#pio 0x278<br>
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<div>pio 0x378<br>
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<span>#pio 0x3BC</span><br>
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<span>I bought a new PC and got rid of the old one, the new one doesn't has a parallel port so I got a PCI card with the parallel port. </span></div>
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I use Open Suse and it recognizes the parallel port</div>
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<span><span>ls -l /dev/lp*<br>
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<div>crw-rw---- 1 root lp 6, 0 Jan 12 14:21 /dev/lp0<br>
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<div>crw-rw---- 1 root lp 6, 1 Jan 12 14:21 /dev/lp1<br>
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<div>crw-rw---- 1 root lp 6, 2 Jan 12 14:21 /dev/lp2<br>
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<div>crw-rw---- 1 root lp 6, 3 Jan 12 14:21 /dev/lp3<br>
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<span><span>dmesg | grep parport0<br>
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<div>[ 7.130079] parport0: PC-style at 0xd020, irq 26 [PCSPP]<br>
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<span>so the parallel port is there and 'active' at 0xd020, using that IO address in the procedure above gives no results, the scan front-end (scanlite, xsane, etc..) or by shell command returns that there are no devices found.</span></div>
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<span>the frontend is run under 'root'.</span></div>
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<span>I had this since 3 years ago, I wanted to try again, didn't find much new information, so I?m posting here in case any has a better idea or something I haven't tried.</span></div>
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<span>Any help is welcome.</span></div>
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<span>Thank you</span></div>
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