For those who care/are interested, I finally got the scanner working. Only after updating SANE to the latest version, double checking the plustek.conf file, reading the info at http://www.gjaeger.de/scanner/usb/Plustek-USB.txt and rebooting again did it actually start working. Interesting, since according to the documentation, the version of Sane that comes with SuSE8 is supposed to support this scanner using the Plustek backend. As for the rebooting, that seems to be a problem with my hotplugging setup - at least I cannot think of anything else that is in the way there. Haven't read up enough on this subject yet to fully understand what's going on here C. On Wednesday 31 July 2002 22:12, Clayton Cornell wrote:
Finally cooled off enough that my computer room is no longer an oven. Found some energy to work on this problem again, so here goes....
To answer everyones suggestions/questions....
On Sunday 28 July 2002 23:14, Frits J. Wüthrich wrote:
Did you set-up the scanner in YAST2 before you run any application? (YAST2 -> Hardware -> Scanner)
That was the first thing I did after reading up on what backend was/is supposed to support the scanner I have. That seemed to have no effect. That was about when I resorted to doing things the manual way. I fired up my favorite console text editor and started poking about in the .config files. in /etc/sane.d
On Sunday 28 July 2002 23:13, Alain Barthélemy wrote:
In /etc/sane.d/hp.conf ot /usr/local/etc/sane.d/hp.conf
add the line:
option connect-device
Did that (except its in plustek.conf because that's the backend I need to use for my scanner)... no noticeable effect.
On Sunday 28 July 2002 23:50, paul ollion wrote:
Type lsmod to see if your scanner module is listed there.
This also shows the scanner. A few relevant lines from lsmod: ---------------------------------------------- scanner 8480 0 usbcore 55136 1 [scanner usb-uhci] ----------------------------------------------
I rebooted again tonight just to see what would happen. Fired up XSane. It started up nicely and recognised my scanner right off. Under File/Info in XSane, I see this: -------------------------------------------- Scanner and backend Vendor: Hewlett-Packard Model: Scanjet 2200c Type: USB flatbed scanner Device: /dev/usbscanner Loaded backend: plustek Sane version: 1.0.7 --------------------------------------------
So, that tells me that things are almost working. Problem is, I cannot get any farther. If I try to do a scan, nothing happens. The software tries to do something and eventually exits with an error. I turned on the debugging stuff and with the initial startup af XSane, it properly idents the scanner, and appears to work correctly. If I try to scan, or exit and restart XSane, scanimage or whatever scanner app, it just exits with an I/O error. The debug stuff tells me that I no longer have a recognisable scanner -------------------------------------------- [plustek] UIO error [plustek] This is not a LM9831 or LM9832 chip based scanner. --------------------------------------------- Even though it is indeed an LM9832 chip based scanner.
So... still looking for suggestions and ideas.
C.