[sane-devel] Scanner Basics

[Karl F. Larsen]

Hi Philippe, I plan to re-write Scanner Basics to include what I found 
was necessary to get my scanner working. I am glad yours is working too. 
I hope the "method" will work with many scanner types.


On Sun, 17 Nov 2002, Philippe Berini wrote:

> Le Sam 16 Novembre 2002 23:08, Henning Meier-Geinitz a écrit :
> 
> > > Eventually I noticed that with lsmod, the name of the module was
> > > "scanner" and I added in /etc/modules.conf two lines instead of one:
> > >
> > > alias /dev/usb/scanner0 scanner
> >
> > Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think that will achieve anything. If you
> > do "rmmod scanner", then run "scanimage -L", that really works?
> > It doesn't work here.
> >
> > Usually, there are two approaches to load the scanner driver when
> > booting:
> >
> > * Put "scanner" in /etc/modules (works on Debian and Mandrake)
> > * Add "modprobe scanner" to /etc/rc.d/rc.local or similar (RedHat)
> 
> OK, that's right. I must admit I had not "scanner" in /etc/modules. 
> (But my method consisting in adding: "alias /dev/usb/scanner0 scanner" 
> in/etc/modules.conf was also working, even if it's strange).
> 
> So now I think I have a correct configuration:
> 
> in /etc/modules:
> scanner 
> 
> in /etc/modules.conf:
> options scanner vendor=0x04a9 product=0x220d
> 
> in /usr/local/etc/sane.d/plustek.conf:
> [usb] 0x04a9 0x220d
> device /dev/usb/scanner0
> 
> and it works well....
> 
> (I also have a /usr/local/sane-backends-1.0.9/backend/plustek.conf file, which 
> I understood was not the one to use, but it does exist anyway, and where I 
> have:
> 
> [usb]
> device /dev/usb/scanner0)
> 
> Don't know what's the use of this file, but after all, if the rest works, it 
> doesn't matter.)
> 
> Thanks a lot for all your explanations,
> 
> 

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