[sane-devel] Using a Visioneer Strobe XP 100 or Syscan Travelscan 464 with SANE (long)

[Gerhard Jaeger]

Hi,

first you should find out why the Plustek backend refuses to work!
There are at least two points:
- make sure that the backend can access the scanner device
- make sure to have appropriate device entries in the plustek-devs.c file

Then also decide how to access the scanner:
sane-find-scanner says libusb:001:005
but you tried to use /dev/usb/scanner0
this does not work!!!

- unload scanner.o
- patch the plustek.conf file, use only the following entry:
[usb]
device auto

This should help so far...
If not: try
export SANE_DEBUG_PLUSTEK=12 ; scanimage -L
and send us the output for further analysis
Cheers
  Gerhard


On Dienstag, 18. Februar 2003 18:32, Ted Drude wrote:
> I would like to get either the Syscan Travelscan 464 or the Visioneer
> Strobe XP 100  working with  SANE.  Both of these USB scanners seem nearly
> identical and use the LM9832 chip inside. Neither currently has a Linux
> SANE driver (or do they?  anyone have more info?)
> ------
> When I plug either of these scanners into the USB port on my RedHat 8.0
> system, I can see them using the "lsusb" command. By reading various
> sources, I was able to figure out for the Travelscan 464, specifically,
> that I needed to add the "options scanner 0xa82 0x4600" to
> /etc/modules.conf.
>
> After doing that, when I do a "rmmod scanner" and "modprobe scanner" and
> then "lsmod" it says the scanner module is loaded.
>
> OK, so now I am getting this message when I do a "sane-find-scanner":
>
> # No SCSI scanners found. If you expected something different, make sure
> that ...[yada yada]
>
> found USB scanner (vendor=0x0a82 [SYSCAN], product=0x4600 [TravelScan 460])
> at libusb:001:005
>
> # A USB device was detected.
>
> This program can't be sure if it's really # a scanner. If it is your
> scanner, it may or may not be supported by # SANE. Try scanimage -L and
> read the backend's manpage. ...[yada yada]
> ----------
> So I need middleware, so I downloaded the latest sane-backend and the
> plustek driver code from the Web page (I started there, because it already
> supports several LM9832 scanners).  I did the recommended changes to the
> source code (plustek-devs.c) in order that it would recognize the
> Travelscan.  Then I did the make, make install, etc.  Everything seemed to
> work OK.
>
> But now, when I do a "scanimage -L" now, I just get this message:
>
> 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).
>
> The "sane-find-scanner" command still works as described earlier.
> -----------------------------------
> Someone suggested that I try a "Scanimage -d plustek:usb/dev/usb/scanner0".
> So, I tried that, then I get this message:
>
> scanimage: open of device plustek:usb/dev/usb/scanner0 failed: Error during
> device I/O
>
> ---------------------------------------
> Any suggestions on what I should try next?  Perhaps a different scanner
> driver?
>
> Thanks, - Ted
>
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