[sane-devel] Reflecta ProScan 7200

[Vleeshouwers, J.M.]

Michael & Noah,

Well, I got it to work:
 $ scanimage -L
 device `pie:libusb:001:005' is a PIE      SF Scanner film scanner

I mixed up your instructions a bit, starting with Noah's simple version:

1. Install the libusb-dev package
// libusb-dev already installed (2:0.1.12-14ubuntu0.2)

2. Install gcc package and it's required dependencies
// gcc-4.4 already installed (4.4.3-4ubuntu5)

3. Download latest sane-backends from http://www.sane-project.org/snapshots/ & extract to <extrdir>

4. Execute in a terminal:
 $ cd <extrdir>
 $ BACKENDS=pie ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --disable-locking
 $ make
// The backend compiles without a problem.

5. Get Michael's files (http://wwwuser.gwdg.de/~mrickma/sane-proscan-7200/status-270411/files.tar.gz),
extract Makefile.am, pie-scidef.h, pie.c, pie.conf.in, pie.h, pie_usb.c to <extrdir>/backend,
extract pie.desc to <extrdir>/doc/descriptions. 

6. Touch Michael's files, configure & rebuild:
 $ autoreconf --force
 $ BACKENDS=pie ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --disable-locking
 $ make
// Again without a problem. But I'm not a make/automake/autoconf expert so it took me a while to find out why the first two steps are necessary.

7. "Install" newly compiled files; I used Michael's instructions for that:
 $ sudo cp <extrdir>/tools/udev/libsane.rules /lib/udev/rules.d/40-libsane.rules
 $ sudo cp <extrdir>/backend/pie.conf /etc/sane.d/pie.conf
 $ sudo cp <extrdir>/backend/.libs/libsane-pie.so.1.0.23 /usr/lib/sane/libsane-pie.so.1.0.20
 $ sudo cp <extrdir>/backend/.libs/libsane.so.1.0.23 /usr/lib/libsane.so.1.0.20
// I shall use the script Michael suggests, that is cleaner.
// At first, I forgot the first two copies, but they are certainly necessary.

8. Test with sane-find-scanner and scanimage
 $ sane-find-scanner
// Finds the scanner: found USB scanner (vendor=0x05e3, product=0x0145, chip=GL841?) at libusb:001:004 (but that's not new). 
 $ scanimage -L
// See above.

I did not get all this right straight-away, though. What took most of my time was finding out that I needed to
switch the scanner off and on again after having compiled the libraries in their final version.

Thanks for the help, I'll start experimenting with it!

Yours,

Jan