[sane-devel] Lexmark X83

[Frank Zago]

Dave Close wrote:
> I noticed recently that Henning reports the gt68xx backend is reported
> to work with some Lexmark scanners, including the X70 and X73. So I've
> been encouraged to try with the X83 but I don't have it working yet.
> If anyone has already made it work, please let us know.
> 
> According to gt68xx.conf, the X7? scanners identify as 0x043d 0x002d.
> My X83 identifies itself as 0x043d 0x003d, so I've added that line to
> gt68xx.conf. Without any other changes (using SANE from CVS), sane-
> find-scanner does not see the X83 (should it?). scanimage -h gt68xx:
> (without a device file) reports a segmentation fault. Adding
> /dev/usb/scanner[0-15] fails with the message, "open of device
> gt68xx:/dev/usb/scanner? failed: Invalid argument" (replacing ? with
> the actual number). All those device files exist, are owned by me,
> and have permission 600. I must be missing something obvious.

Loading the scanner driver with
	modprobe scanner vendor=0x043d product=0x003d
should help sane-find-scanner to actually see it.


Frank.