[sane-devel] Epson Perfection 1250

[Henning Meier-Geinitz]

Hi,

On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 02:41:46PM -0700, Karl F. Larsen wrote:
> Sorry Gerhard, I'm using Red Hat version 8 which has Xsane version 0.84 
> installed.

XSane is "only" the frontend (application), the version of the drivers
(sane-backends) is more interesting. scanimage --version shows that
version number.

What's the kernel version?

> The usb subsystem may or may not be working. I see it come up 
> while booting up but I don't know how to tell if it is working.

Well, maybe I missed it, but you still haven't described what your
actual problem is.

Does sane-find-scanner list your scanner? If it doesn't, your scanner
wasn't detected by the kernel USB scanner driver. I'm copying a
paragraph of man sane-usb here:

"If your scanner isn't detected automatically by your operating
system's scanner driver, you need to tell the kernel the vendor and
product ids of your scanner. For Linux, this can be done with modprobe
parameters: First, remove the scanner module (rmmod scanner), then
load it again: modprobe scanner vendor=0x0001 product=0x0002. Use the
appropriate vendor and product ids (e.g. from syslog or cat
/proc/bus/usb/devices)."

Now sane-find-scanner should list your scanner. If it doesn't, check
the permissions (see man sane-usb).

> Here is my stab at the plustek.conf file but I have no idea what I'm 
> doing....
[...]
> [usb]
[...]
> #
> # and of course the device-name

Yes, where is it?

> 	I would like a referance to this file. It is pretty odd.

man sane-plustek

The only thing you will need, is the device line after the [usb] line.
The device is the one printed by sane-find-scanner.

Example:

[usb]
some options ...
device /dev/usb/scanner0

Bye,
  Henning