[sane-devel] Re: Mustek 600 III EP Plus problems

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 03 June 2002 11:20 am, richard hebert wrote:
>I can second the thing.
>I got the same scanner and RH 7.3 and i have tried to
>change port number
>cat /proc/ioports indicates parport0 at 0378-037a
>i used it in the mustek_pp.conf file and this is a no
>go.
>And no this is not while trying to print : )
>
>Reminder this is an upgraded sane pack released by RH
>a few days ago.
>Before and after the upgrade it does the same.
>Suggestions ?
>Ric
>
Somehow I missed the first message in this thread, but this is 
something thats not come up here since my scanner NOW is a USB.

But, prior to that, I had a Colorado 600p which was, and I can 
relate a story.  One evening after I had sent a 40 page file to the 
printer, the missus came in and wanted a page scanned. I dropped it 
on the scanner and fired up the single purpose (not sane related) 
driver I was then using and asked it for a preview, totally 
forgetting that the parallel port was busy, which it did with only 
a second or so stoppage of the printer, then I asked it for the 
real thing, which it did and that stopped the printer in the middle 
of a line of  graphics.  When the scanner was done, the printer 
fired right back up with no visible glitches in the output of those 
2 pages.

So if you're asking can you print and scan at the same time, the 
answer is yes IF the scanner driver plays nice.  Does sane do that?  
I dunno.

>On Mon, 3 Jun 2002 11:40:23 +0200
>
>Jochen Eisinger <jochen.eisinger@gmx.de> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> to which port is your scanner connected? Or are you
>
>using a printer
>
>> while trying to scan? You could try to unload the
>
>parport modules (or at
>
>> least make sure they do not lock the port
>
>address...)
>
>> regards
>> -- jochen
>>
>> [Kristen Doyle]
>>
>> > I am trying to get it working on an linux box when
>
>i try though the
>
>> > following comes up
>> >
>> > Linux 2.4.18
>> >
>> >
>> > [sanei_debug] Setting debug level of mustek_pp to
>
>128.
>
>> > [mustek_pp] init: SANE v1.0.8, backend
>
>v1.0.9-devel
>
>> > [mustek_pp] I wouldn't let myself be root if I
>
>were you...
>
>> > [mustek_pp] init: option niceload
>> > [mustek_pp] init: trying port `0x378'
>> > [mustek_pp] attach: couldn't attach to `0x378'
>
>(Invalid argument)
>
>> > [mustek_pp] attach(v1.0.9-devel): line 2538: debug
>
>exception
>
>> > [mustek_pp] init: couldn't attach to port `0x378'
>> > [mustek_pp] init: 'name' only allowed after 'port'
>> > [mustek_pp] init: 'vendor' only allowed after
>
>'port'
>
>> > [mustek_pp] init: option wait-lamp 15
>> > [mustek_pp] init: setting global option wait-lamp
>
>to 15
>
>> > [mustek_pp] init: option strip-height 16
>> > [mustek_pp] init: setting global option
>
>strip-height to 16
>
>> > No scanners were identified. If you were expecting
>
>something
>
>> > different, check that the scanner is plugged in,
>
>turned on and
>
>> > detected by the sane-find-scanner tool (if
>
>appropriate). Please read
>
>> > the documentation which came with this software
>
>(README, FAQ,
>
>> > manpages).[mustek_pp] exit: (...)
>> > comp3:/usr/local/etc/sane.d#
>>
>> --
>> ...and I doubt complaining to the author will get
>
>you
>
>> anything but a free procmail rule.
>
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