[sane-devel] Mustek ScanExpress A3 USB 1200 PRO

[Gernot Hassenpflug]

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 12:49 PM, scar <scar at drigon.com> wrote:
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> Gernot Hassenpflug @ 03/22/2010 07:42 PM:
>> See if as root you can get a result from:
>> scanimage -L
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> even as root, it doesn't detect any scanners.
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> sane-find-scanner does detect it though:
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> found USB scanner (vendor=0x055f [Hewlett-Packard.        ],
> product=0x040b [USB2.0 Scanner            ], chip=SQ113) at libusb:001:009
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Yes, in order for the backend to detect it you would need to register
the Vendor ID and Product ID with that backend, if I understand
correctly. That means editing the recommended backend code (preferably
in a CVS version of SANE) and recompiling it (goes into /usr/local so
no interference with system SANE). Then scanimage -L should find the
scanner with whatever backend the Vid/Pid was registered with, and try
to work with it.

Regards,
Gernot