[sane-devel] opticpro9636 T

[Henning Meier-Geinitz]

Hi,

I'm sending this back to the sane-devel list as I personally don't
have much experience with the plustek backend. Still trying to answer...

On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 04:47:31PM -0400, Ernie Schroder wrote:
>  # SANE_DEBUG_PLUSTEK=255 scanimage -L
> [sanei_debug] Setting debug level of plustek to 255.
> [plustek] Plustek backend V0.44-10, part of sane-backends 1.0.9
> [plustek] ># Plustek-SANE Backend configuration file<
> [plustek] ># For use with Plustek parallel-port scanners and<
> [plustek] ># LM9831/2/3 based USB scanners<
> [plustek] ><
> [plustek] ># For parport devices use the parport section<
> [plustek] >#<
> [plustek] >[parport]<
> [plustek] next device is a PARPORT device
> [plustek] >device /dev/pt_drv<
> [plustek] Decoding device name >/dev/pt_drv<
> [plustek] ><
> [plustek] >#<
> [plustek] ># leave the default values as specified in /etc/modules.conf<
> [plustek] >#<
> [plustek] >#option warmup=30<
> [plustek] >#option lOffOnEnd=0<
> [plustek] >#option lampOff=0<
> [plustek] >#option port=0x378<
> [plustek] ><

 
> >
> > The device node for the pt_drv in /dev does exist and the user has
> > access permissions for it?
> 
> there is a /dev/scanner/pt_drv.(no /dev/pt_drv) Permissions are ok:
> ls -l /dev/scanner/pt_drv0
> crwxrwxrw-    1 root     wheel     40,   0 Dec 31  1969 
> /dev/scanner/pt_drv0

The path is wrong. It's /dev/pt_drv. Or change plustek.conf to
/dev/scanner/pt_drv.

> and as root I do:
> scanimage --device-name plustek:/dev/scanner/pt_drv0
> scanimage: open of device plustek:/dev/scanner/pt_drv failed: Error 
> during device I/O
> 
> should I sym-link /dev/scanner/pt_drv0 to /dev/pt_drv?

Yes, that's another way to do it.

Bye,
  Henning