[sane-devel] Epson Perfection 1250

[Karl F. Larsen]

On Sat, 16 Nov 2002, Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Some general comments:
> 
> 1) This is not a write-only list. Please read the comments we write
>    and, if something is unclear, respond to them.
> 2) Please don't make up a new subject for every article you write. Stay
>    in the same thread, just reply to you own or somebody else article
>    in this thread. Otherwise we must search the list for your name to
>    find out what you aleady tried.
> 
> On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 02:13:36PM -0700, Karl F. Larsen wrote:
> > 	I read "man sane-plustek" 4 times. It said clear as a bell that 
> > ALL I need in the file plustek.conf is 2 lines. Here is what I have now 
> > on this computer:
> > 
> > # Plustek-SANE Backend configuration file
> > # For use with Plustek parallel-port scanners and
> > # LM9831/2/3 based USB scanners
> > 
> > [usb] 0x04b8 0x01f
> > device /dev/usb/scanner0
> 
> Either remove the ids after the [usb] line completely or at least use
> the correct ones. It has been already said that the product id is
> 0x010f, not 0x01f or any other variant of this.

	What happened Henning is that sane-for-scanners found the right 
one because perhaps, even though the product is wrong in plustek.conf 
file. 



> 
> The scanner is still found by sane-find-scanner?
> 
> If nothing else helps, create a plustek.conf file with nothing but:
> 
> [usb]
> device /dev/usb/scanner0
> 
> > 	It can't be much simpler than that, and that is what the man 
> > page said to do. Alas when I try Xsane and scanimage it comes up with 
> > "Can't find scanner".
> 
	I corrected the product to 0x010f and now Xsane comes up and 
WORKS! It was my sloppy written stuff that got me. 



> Please send us the debug.log generated by:
> 
> SANE_DEBUG_PLUSTEK=255 scanimage -L 2>debug.log
> 
> > 	At this point I'm dead. I don't understand sane, and if the man 
> > page is wrong then what is right?
> 
> The man page is not wrong as far as I can see.
> 
> > Since 0x04b8 means Epson do you think sane is looking for Epson.conf?
> 
> No.
> 
> > I only have plustek.conf in /etc/sane.d/.
> 
> What do you mean by that? Did you remove all the other config files?
> In this case you destroyed your sane installation. Please reinstall.
> You need at least dll.conf.
> 
> Bye,
>   Henning
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