[sane-devel] Problem with GT68XX and MacOS X REVISED

[Nick Collingridge]

Slight revision of my question to add details of firmware file.

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Summary of configuration:

G5 Dual 2GHz, 2GB RAM
MacOSX 10.4.3
Scanner ­ Mustek A3 USB
LibUSB ­ 0.1.11
SANE Backends - 1.0.16

I have installed all the above items and made sure that there is a properly
configured (according to the instructions, including an override and a
vendor and model number) GT68xx.conf file in /usr/local/etc/ on my boot
drive. 

Also a firmware file (a32fw.usb) in /usr/local/share/sane/gt68xx/.

However I still can¹t get the scanner to work. The symptoms are:

Using sane-find-scanner in Terminal I get:

    found USB scanner (vendor=0x055f, product=0x0210 [USB Scanner],
chip=GT-6816) at libusb:009:004-055f-0210-00-00

Then if I try scanimage ­L I get a message starting ³No scanners were
identified...²

Following this I have to power-cycle the scanner before it is recognised by
sane-find-scanner again.

If I try scanimage ­L immediately after power-cycling the scanner, I get:

    device `gt68xx:libusb:009:004-055f-0210-00-00' is a Mustek ScanExpress
A3 USB flatbed scanner

But irrespective of when I power-cycle, if I try scanimage > test.pnm, I
get:

    scanimage: no SANE devices found

I am confused and don¹t know where to go next. I think there is an issue
here with the scanner having to be power-cycled after every command (is this
a bug?), but even if I try and actually scan an image immediately after
power-cycling, it still doesn¹t work.

I am afraid that all the man pages and the FAQ for TWAIN SANE are not very
complete in their description of what needs to be done to get everything
working properly, and also don¹t really help very well when things don¹t
work. They just do not describe the combination of circumstances I am
experiencing. Also they are clearly written mainly for Linux users and much
does not directly transfer to MacOS X.

The really frustrating thing is that when I installed SANE on a previous
MacOS X system it worked fine (within its limits!). I just can¹t get it to
work again with the latest versions of all the s/w.

Do I need to provide any further info, or can someone give me some pointers
on what I need to do to get things going beyond where I have got to?
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