[sane-devel] Problems with Plustek driver

[Jaeger, Gerhard]

Hi,

what about the access rights of /dev/pt_drv0?

Please check this..
  Gerhard

On Dienstag, 4. März 2003 13:36, Danilo Godec wrote:
> I have a Primax 4800 Direct scanner, which is a re-labelled Plustek
> parallel port scanner. I have Suse 8.1 which comes with sane 1.0.8 and
> includes Plustek support.
>
> I've also downloaded the Plustek kernel driver from
> plustek-module-0_42_9.tar.gz as it is supposed to work with sane 1.08
> without re-compiling sane.
>
> The driver seems to detect the scanner:
>
> pt_drv : driver version 0.42-10
> parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 7 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP]
> pt_drv0: Primax 4800 Direct found on port 0x0378
> pt_drv0: Lamp-Timer set to 180 seconds.
> pt_drv0: WarmUp period set to 15 seconds.
> pt_drv0: Lamp untouched on driver unload.
>
> However:
>
> dis:~ # scanimage -L
>
> No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different,
> check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by the
> sane-find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please read the documentation
> which came with this software (README, FAQ, manpages).
>
> dis:~ # scanimage -d plustek:/dev/pt_drv0
> scanimage: open of device plustek:/dev/pt_drv0 failed: Error during device
> I/O
>
> I have uncommented the 'plustek' line in /etc/sane.d/dll.conf. What else
> must I do to get the scanner to work?
>
> Thanks, D.
>
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