[sane-devel] Scanner Basics

[Karl F. Larsen]

Hi Karl, I looked at the usb.distmap and it has over a hundred entries 
most of which are all zeros. In Red Hat 8 there are 18 scanner entries. 
They are also all zeros. So I have no way to know how to start. I will 
stay with rc.local which is easy to do. I will use the entry in 
/etc/modules.conf that works fine after you use depmod -a. Without that 
it doesn't work. 

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On Sat, 16 Nov 2002, Karl Heinz Kremer wrote:

> The man page will probably not help. It does not talk about the
> format of the entry. Just open the file /etc/hotplug/usb.distmap.
> You will see lots of entries, every record starts with the 
> driver name (e.g. scanner), followed a number of numeric values.
> I only know what the vendor and product ID are, the others I
> just copy from other entries. When you start with a scanner
> entry and just replace the vendor and product ID with the data
> for your scanner, it will work. That's all you need to know. That's
> all I know. 
> 
> Karl Heinz
> 
> On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 07:22:01PM -0700, Karl F. Larsen wrote:
> > 
> > Hi Karl, I will need to read a man page for hotplug. I really don't 
> > understand your example.
> > 
> > 
> > On Sat, 16 Nov 2002, Karl Heinz Kremer wrote:
> > 
> > > On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 01:55:41PM -0700, Karl F. Larsen wrote:
> > > [ ... ]
> > > > Hi Karl, I find to get scanner into the kernel I must have something in 
> > > > /etc/rc.d/rc.local file, and that something can include the vendor and 
> > > > product. If you can tell me how to load the scanner module alone some 
> > > > other way I'm listening. I could read 
> > > > /usr/src/linux/documentation/modules again but I'm tired of all that 
> > > > today...:-)
> > > 
> > > Put a line like this into the file /etc/hotplug/usb.distmap. The second numeric
> > > argument is the vendor ID, the third is the product ID. The whole thing is
> > > one line. It's probably easier to just copy one line that starts with the
> > > driver name "scanner" and duplicate it, and then modify the vendor and
> > > product IDs. 
> > > scanner              0x0003 0x04b8   0x010f    0x0000       0x0000       0x00         0x00            0x00            0x00            0x00            0x00            0x00000000
> > > 
> > > Red Hat 8.0 does have hotplug support, as does SuSE 8.x. I would assume
> > > that pretty much all modern Linux distributions also come with hotplug
> > > enabled.
> > > 
> > > Karl Heinz
> > > 
> > 
> > -- 
> >                       
> >                - Karl Larsen k5di Las Cruces,NM Az ScQRPions -
> > 
> 
> 

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