Re: Epson GT-6000

From: Karl Heinz Kremer (khk@khk.net)
Date: Wed Feb 23 2000 - 05:29:39 PST

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    Jesper,

    the necessary steps are documented on Christian Bucher's
    web site (he implemented the PIO support):

    http://www.vernetzt.at/~bucher/Epson/Epson.html

    Just click on "Parallel" in the navigation bar.

    Karl Heinz

    Jesper Anderson <jesper@pobox.com> said:

    > On Wed, Feb 23, 2000 at 09:23:45AM -0000, Jonathan Buzzard wrote:
    > > >I have an old Epson GT-6000 parallell port scanner.
    > <snip>
    > > As I understand it in sane.conf where you would put /dev/scanner
    > > or whatever the device the scanner is hanging off you should put
    > > the port number of the parallel port the scanner is on. Hence if
    > > it is on parallel port one you would put 0x387, and 0x287 for
    > > parallel port two.
    >
    > Ok, I tried that. Unfortunately 'scanimage -L' still tells me I have
    > no sane devices.
    >
    > I assume I place sane.conf in /usr/local/etc/sane.d/, and that it
    > is essentially a clone of epson.conf? I can't find any docs on this
    > either, nor any example sane.conf files.
    >
    > Any idea on whether I need some form of SCSI support in the kernel
    for
    > this to work?
    >
    > Btw, it works well under Win 3.1/95/98, but NT refuses to find it
    > through the parallell port.
    >
    > > In short no. If you get it working write it up and I will put a
    link
    > > on my parallel port scanners page.
    >
    > I'll be happy to. Now all I have to do is get it to work ... :)
    >
    > Jesper
    >
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