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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