[sane-devel] Umax 2000P

[Stéphane VOLTZ]

Le samedi 30 décembre 2006 23:02, Frank McCormick a écrit :
> Hello all
>
>     I am trying to get a Umax 2000p scanner to work with my Ubuntu
> installation. So far no luck - I keep getting an error message which seems
> to indicate the SANE frontend or maybe the backends were not compiled with
> an option.
>
> This is the error:
>
> frank at ubuntu:~$ xsane
> [umax_pp_low] sanei_umax_pp_InitPort cannot use direct hardware access
> [umax_pp_low] if not compiled with --enable-parport-directio
>
>
> In googling the problem it seems there are 2 ways of accessing the parallel
> port directly or through ppdev. However when I load that module (sudo
> modprobe ppdev) I am no further ahead.
>
> I also tried downloading the sources and compiling but when it came to
> compiling the front end it failed because it seems to think the backends
> have not been compiled, when in fact they have been. I am using Ubuntu
> Dapper and Edgy but both distributions give me the same error. Is it
> possible to use a Debian distros files ? Is there any other way to resolve
> this ?
>
> Thanks

	Hello,

	if  the --enable-parport-directio hasn't been used to build the umax_pp 
backend, you can only make it work with ppdev. Loading the ppdev module might 
not be enough, you must have permission to access the device. Check the owner 
and group of the /dev/parport0 device that is created when the module is 
loaded. To see if it's only a permission problem try 'sudo scanimage -L'.
	Also, in umax_pp.conf, you can change the 'port'  line to 'port safe-auto' 
or 'port /dev/parport0 if you're sure you'll allways use ppdev.

Regards,
	Stef