That's the first set of questions I'd ask, but I haven't been at this
all that long. BTW, what's the difference between an Arstec and an Astra?
Mine's an Astra. I didn't see any mention of an Arstec on umax's site.
Are you sure it's a umax?
Sorry I couldn't offer more help. Lots of others can.
-ls-
Egg Ham <eggandham@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Dear Madam/Sir,
>
> My scanner is UMAX Arstec 1220S. It is a SCSI scanner.
> I use Adaptec AHA-2940U SCSI card. I have RedHat 5.2.
> I upgraded kernel to 2.2.6. I installed sane-1.0.1
> patched with the umax patch.
>
> The kernel seems to recognize the scanner when
> booting. When I cat /proc/scsi/scsi, it correctly
> lists out my scanner. However, when I tried to scan
> using the apps like scanimage, xscanimage and xsane,
> my scanner is not recognized.
>
> I created a group called scanner with the ID of 43. I
> added root and another user in the group. I chmod
> /dev/sge to 660 and chgrp /dev/sge to scanner as
> instructed by san-scsi help file. I made a soft link
> of /dev/scanner pointing to /dev/sge. I edited
> /usr/local/etc/sane.d/umax.conf and it looks like this
> (excluded comments in the file):
>
> scsi UMAX * scanner
> /dev/scanner
> /dev/sge
>
> I edited /usr/local/etc/sane.d/dll.conf and it looks
> like this (excluded comments in the file):
>
> pnm
> umax
>
> Now when I used xscanimage or xsane, they only list
> out pnm:0 and pnm:1 as the devices to choose from.
>
> When I use scanimage, which I am not sure about the
> command syntac, with -d umax:/dev/sge and gave an
> error message like device failed to open:Invalid
> Argument. When I used findscanner -v, it tried to open
> the device from all /dev/sg* but all failed.
>
> Please help.
>
> Michelle
>
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