Re: Snapscan driver and acer scanner

From: Steve Cooper (scooper1@coin.org)
Date: Wed Jan 31 2001 - 10:56:54 PST

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    John.

    Thank you for your help. That patch has got me further along on my quest.
    Now when I try the "scanimage -L" command , I get the device to respond back.
    But when I try to run the xsane it still says it cannot find the device. Any
    further input would be appreciated.

    Steve Cooper

    John Craig wrote:

    > Hi,
    >
    > I have been using an Acer scanner with the Snapscan driver. You will need
    > to patch the Sane source code with the snapscan drivers found at
    > http://download.sourceforge.net/snapscan/snapscan-01112000.tar.gz
    > I know this works with sane-1.0.3 (which should have come with RH 7.0).
    > Furthermore, you might need to look at the snapscan.h file in the
    > sane-1.0.3/backends directory to make sure your scanner is being recognized
    > as the right type. Do cat /proc/scsi/scsi and look at the way the scanner
    > type is reported, then look at line 102 in snapscan.h and make sure it is
    > being recognized as an Acer 300f. If so, compile and install.
    >
    > Good luck!
    >
    > John Craig
    >
    > Steve Cooper wrote:
    >
    > > >From the past post on this board I have seen the interest in a acer
    > > driver for sane. I have a acer 300f scsi scanner running on a Adaptec
    > > 1542 card. The os is rh 7.0 I have compiled the latest sane 1.0.4. I
    > > have successfully modproped the scsi bus and can see my devices, I have
    > > also used the find-scanner utility to find the scanner. I have not been
    > > able to get the snapscan module to work. From the search of this data
    > > message archive it seems like I am not the only one. I am not a coder
    > > by any means, but what ever help I could get would be great.
    > >
    > > This system is supposed to be used as a demo box at a Linux Expo. I am
    > > also running, I don't know if it makes a difference, XFree86 4.0.2, KDE
    > > 1.1.2 on triple heads.
    > >
    > > Thank You,
    > > Steve Cooper
    > >
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