[sane-devel] Plustek scanner

[Keith Bates]

> On Wednesday 19 September 2001 01:22 am, I wrote this message and got some helpful replies from Ryan, michael and Jerry.:
> 
>> Keith Bates, Mit, 19 Sep 2001 :
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> I've just joined the list and just starting with SANE. Please bear with
>>> me if I'm being stupid :-)
>>> 
>>> I've got a Plustek OpticPro 4831P scanner which plugs in via the printer
>>> port. This scanner is on the list of supported scanners. I've installed
>>> the latest version of SANE, but when I try to run it via the GIMP it
>>> tells me no scanner was found.
>>> 
>>> I've gone through the configure-make-make install routine for both
>>> sane-backend and xsane.
>>> 
>>> If someone can tell me what I'm doing wrong I would be one happy camper!
>> 
> Jerry replied:


> 
> Kieth
> 
> did you set the dll.conf file in sane.d?
> comment out everything except    net,plustek ,v41
> 
> also because it's on the para  port  an ordinary user does NOT have the right 
> permissions to use it so you will have to use the "net" device to ascess it.
> read doc for saned and sane,net
> 
> just to check try running xsane as root to see if it works.     however DO NOT
> NORMALLY USE AS ROOT!!!!!!!!!!!
> 
> hope this helps
> Jerry


Since then I have installed the Plustek back end, I've checked all the 
files which are mentioned in the sane-plustek man, I've modified the  
dll.conf file as recommended by Jerry and I've modified 
/etc/modules.conf as below:

alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
alias eth0 ne
alias synth0 awe_wave
alias sound-slot-0 sb
post-install sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -L 
 >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
pre-remove sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -S 
 >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
alias char-major-40    pt_drv
pre-install pt_drv modprobe -k parport
options pt_drv lampoff=180 warmup=15 port=0x378 lOffonEnd=0 mov=0 
slowIO=1 forceMode=0


The file /usr/local/etc/sane.d/plustek.conf contains just one line:

/dev/pt_drv


When I run scanimage -L as root or as myself, I just get the message : 
No scanners were identified, if you were expecting something different 
check the scanner is plugged in... etc.

The scanner works under windows so it's not a hardware problem.

Can you please tell me what to do next??

Thank you!!!



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