<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div>I had a Medion flatbed scanner MD/LT 9385 working on my Manjaro Linux (currently kernel 3.9.7-1, x86_64), by just uncommenting the necessary lines in /etc/sane.d/gt68xx.conf and putting the firmware gt680xfw.usb in /usr/share/sane/gt68xx/</div><div>Last week the scanner failed, so I bought a brand new Plustek Opticslim 2600, also gt68xx based (GT6816 chip). I hoped that the same procedure would work again. I added the following lines to /etc/sane.d/gt68xx.conf:</div><div># Autodetect Plustek OpticSlim 2600<br>usb 0x07b3 0x0467<br>model "OpticSlim 2600"<br>override "plustek-opticslim-2400"<br>firmware "/usr/share/sane/gt68xx/cis3R5B1.fw"<br>afe 0x20 0x02 0x22 0x03 0x1f 0x04<br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style:
normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">and put the required firmware in place. <br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Things don't work however:</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"> lsusb<br>Bus 001 Device 002: ID 072f:9000 Advanced Card Systems, Ltd ACR38 AC1038-based Smart Card Reader<br>Bus 002 Device 002: ID 07b3:0467 Plustek, Inc. <br>Bus 003 Device 002: ID 0424:2502 Standard Microsystems Corp. <br>Bus 001
Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub<br>Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub<br>Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub<br>Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub<br>Bus 003 Device 004: ID 03f0:7b04 Hewlett-Packard <br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"> sane-find-scanner<br><br> # sane-find-scanner will now attempt to detect your scanner. If the<br> # result is different from what you expected, first make sure your<br> # scanner is powered up and properly connected to your computer.<br><br> # No SCSI scanners found. If you expected something different,
make sure that<br> # you have loaded a kernel SCSI driver for your SCSI adapter.<br> # Also you need support for SCSI Generic (sg) in your operating system.<br> # If using Linux, try "modprobe sg".<br><br>could not open USB device 0x072f/0x9000 at 001:002: Access denied (insufficient permissions)<br>could not open USB device 0x0424/0x2502 at 003:002: Access denied (insufficient permissions)<br>could not open USB device 0x1d6b/0x0001 at 001:001: Access denied (insufficient permissions)<br>could not open USB device 0x1d6b/0x0001 at 002:001: Access denied (insufficient permissions)<br>could not open USB device 0x1d6b/0x0002 at 003:001: Access denied (insufficient permissions)<br>could not open USB device 0x1d6b/0x0002 at 004:001: Access denied (insufficient permissions)<br> # No USB scanners found. If you expected something different, make sure that<br> # you have loaded a kernel driver for your USB host controller and have
setup<br> # the USB system correctly. See man sane-usb for details.<br><br> # Not checking for parallel port scanners.<br><br> # Most Scanners connected to the parallel port or other proprietary ports<br> # can't be detected by this program.<br><br> # You may want to run this program as root to find all devices. Once you<br> # found the scanner devices, be sure to adjust access permissions as<br> # necessary.<br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">sudo
sane-find-scanner<br><br> # sane-find-scanner will now attempt to detect your scanner. If the<br> # result is different from what you expected, first make sure your<br> # scanner is powered up and properly connected to your computer.<br><br> # No SCSI scanners found. If you expected something different, make sure that<br> # you have loaded a kernel SCSI driver for your SCSI adapter.<br> # Also you need support for SCSI Generic (sg) in your operating system.<br> # If using Linux, try "modprobe sg".<br><br>could not fetch string descriptor: Pipe error<br>could not fetch string descriptor: Pipe error<br> # No USB scanners found. If you expected something different, make sure that<br> # you have loaded a kernel driver for your USB host controller and have setup<br> # the USB system correctly. See man sane-usb for details.<br><br> # Not checking for parallel port scanners.<br><br> # Most
Scanners connected to the parallel port or other proprietary ports<br> # can't be detected by this program.<br><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">scanimage -L<br>device `gt68xx:libusb:002:002' is a Plustek OpticSlim 2400 flatbed scanner<br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Notice how scanimage wrongly identifies it as OpticSlim 2400, despite the modified gt68xx.conf</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Any help is appreciated.<br></div><br></div></body></html>