> There's a good reason why it doesn't mention Parallel Scanners ... AFAIK >.. SANE works with SCSI connected scanners only.
>
> Neil Zampella
I know it's bad form to answer your own guestions, but in case anybody
else is going this route I wanted to make a post saying that I got this
set-up working under Linux 2.0.36 and SANE 1.0. Here are some of the
(obvious in hindsight) things I needed to figure out to get it working.
(If anybody knows a more elegant way to do this, let me know.)
-Using the SANE RPM from contrib.redhat.com, I had to make sure that
/etc/sane.d/epson.conf had the parallel port number ("0x0378") instead
of /dev/scanner. (This seems to contradict the sane-epson man page,
which says that the "device name is fixed to /dev/scanner".)
-Make sure that parallel support is compiled into the kernel and not a
module. If it is compiled in as a module, manually load the module
before starting the scanner. (The scanner wouldn't even start when the
parallel cable was connected unless I ran insmod lp.o first.)
-I had to make sure that the BIOS on my FIC VA-503+ motherboard was
configured so that the parallel port was in EPP/SPP mode and not the
default SPP mode. (Otherwise, SANE would die complaining about not
having a bidirectional parallel port.)
I was very impressed with what I could get done with this scanner using
xscanimage. Many thanks to the developers! And many thanks to my
mother--this was the best $10 she ever spent at a garage sale!
Andrew Leahy
aleahy@knox.edu
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