On Wednesday 20 June 2007 04:38, Johannes Meixner wrote:
Of course there is no need that you write a comprehensive manual about all parallel port scanners.
Not intended. I just want to make owners of dusty old parallel port scanners aware that hardware can be used under openSUSE with points to SANE web page. I have to get idea what steps will user follow in order to install scanner and give answers what to do.
I like to point out that your current article seems to indicate that additional software is needed in any case to get a parallel port scanner working.
I got that with your last post. At the time I wrote the draft, I was still focused on my scanner that still fits my needs, but even after manual selection in YaST it didn't worked.
A note that some parallel port scanners don't need additional software while others do and a hint to read the appropriate SANE man page (e.g. "man sane-microtek2" for your scanner) and a link to the SANE project page for the model-specific details is perfectly sufficient.
So that would be the start: 1- try manual selection, 2- if it doesn't work check SANE list of supported scanners 1- explain what to look for in the list (backend name) 2- read manual page
I like to avoid that various users come up with problems how to compile and use kernel modules because your article may indicate that they need it in any case.
It is still not public (kind of), but I agree on this.
My scanner was one of those with problem to be recognized, after loading ppscsi and onscsi it was found by YaST.
The YaST scanner setup module does not serach at all for parallel port scanners. It calls /usr/lib/YaST2/bin/autodetect_scanners which is basically "sane-find-scanner -q" and this searches only for USB and SCSI scanners (see "man sane-find-scanner").
Your special SCSI modules make your parallel port scanner appear as a SCSI scanner so that it is then found by YaST and set up as a SCSI scanner as you described in your article.
In contrast my parallel port scanner works as native parallel port scanner.
Attempt to use manual setup in YaST didn't worked for this particular model. If it would be USB than I would never see ppscsi and company. Thanks again. I'll make changes tonight, at least to mark my example as special case. -- Regards, Rajko. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org