[sane-devel] Usage of parallel port scanner

[Jochen Eisinger]

Hi,

lp0 etc are line printers (therefor lp) and not scanners. Please define
the port as described in the configfile /etc/sane.d/mustek_pp.conf or
the man-page sane-mustek_pp

regards
-- jochen

Joachim Backes wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I want to use my medion9848 scanner,attached to the parallel port,
> under linux (redhat 7.3). It is a mustek scanner. My problem: When using
> scanimage for example, how to define the scan device? I tried
> -d mustek_pp:/dev/lp0, but this was rejected by:
> 
>         scanimage: open of device mustek_pp:/dev/lp0 failed: Invalid argument
> 
> The parallel port is configured correctly - my printer runs at /dev/lp0
> without problems.
> 
> Any idea?
> 
> Regards
> 
> Joachim Backes
> 
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