[sane-devel] Lexmark X83

[Dave Close]

I noticed recently that Henning reports the gt68xx backend is reported
to work with some Lexmark scanners, including the X70 and X73. So I've
been encouraged to try with the X83 but I don't have it working yet.
If anyone has already made it work, please let us know.

According to gt68xx.conf, the X7? scanners identify as 0x043d 0x002d.
My X83 identifies itself as 0x043d 0x003d, so I've added that line to
gt68xx.conf. Without any other changes (using SANE from CVS), sane-
find-scanner does not see the X83 (should it?). scanimage -h gt68xx:
(without a device file) reports a segmentation fault. Adding
/dev/usb/scanner[0-15] fails with the message, "open of device
gt68xx:/dev/usb/scanner? failed: Invalid argument" (replacing ? with
the actual number). All those device files exist, are owned by me,
and have permission 600. I must be missing something obvious.

Once I figure out what I'm doing wrong and get the scanner detected,
I'll need the firmware file. Looking through the two CDs provided with
the scanner, I don't find any files ending in .usb or .us_. Most of
the files can be easily ruled out as possible firmware, but I'm not
sure about lexusb.sy_. Does anyone know if the file is separately
available on the CD? I don't have a Windoze machine to try. If you do
and have already extracted the file, can you send me a copy?
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