Re: [LUG] USB scanner

[Keith Abraham <keith.abraham@xxxxxxxx>]

Cheers Tony
	I had been contemplating doing the same.
	There are some dependency problems but
	they seem to concern libusb which I understand
	is only needed for kenels <2.4.0 and libieee1284.so.3
	which is only needed for some canon scanners.

	At the moment I've screwed up my USB installation
	(too much tinkering). when I've fixed it I'll rip out
	Sane 1.0.7 and install 1.0.9.
Ta
Keith
 
On Friday 03 January 2003 9:31 pm, Tony Atkin wrote:
> I found myself with a similar problem when I bought an
> Epson Perfection 1260 having checked on the sane
> website that it was a supported model.  SuSE 8.1 ships
> with Sane 1.0.8 and this model needs 1.0.9 (plustek
> driver).  So the obvious thing to do was to uninstall
> all of suse's sane stuff, download sane-backends,
> sane-frontends and xsane, then compile into /usr/local
> and run.  With a bit of fiddling with configuration I
> got myself a working system.  Until I had cause to use
> Yast to install some unrelated software when it
> managed to reinstall the old version of Sane without
> asking - Grrr Arrgh.  Fortunately SuSE has more sense
> than to overwrite config files.  I solved the problem
> - for now - by hunting down the SuSE binaries and
> deleting them by hand.
>
> Anyway, sorry I can't help with your particular driver
> but if my experience is anything to go by you should
> get it working with an updated Sane.
>
> Tony
>
>
>  --- Keith Abraham <keith.abraham@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >
> Santa brought me a Medion MD4394 usb scanner. (AFAIK
>
> > it's a re-badged Artec E+48u.)
> >
> > It works fine under W98 (which I only use for the
> > odd
> > game or two) but I would prefer to have it working
> > under
> > Linux.
> >
> > SuSE 8.0 supplies Sane 1.0.7 for scanner handling
> > but
> > after messing about with the generic Artec driver
> > via
> > YAST2 neither Xsane, Kooka nor scanimage seem to
> > find any USB devices.
> >
> > SuSE's Control centre/hardware indicates that the
> > system
> > knows about the scanner yet it's status is "not
> > available".
> >
> > I'm not even sure whether (NB the spelling all you
> > pagans
> > out there) SuSE's Artec driver is actually a USB
> > driver as
> > /etc/sane.d/artec.conf contains:
> >
> > scsi Ultima
> > /dev/usbscanner
> >
> > which doesn't seem correct to me.
> >
> > A bit of googling suggests that replacing Sane 1.0.7
> > with
> > Sane 1.0.9 and a Tevion backend would do the job but
> > not without some large dependancy problems.
> >
> > If anyone else has managed to get an Artec derived
> > scanner
> > working I'd be grateful for any help.
> >
> > Keith
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