Re: Snapscan driver and acer scanner

From: John Craig (jcraig@agen.ufl.edu)
Date: Wed Jan 31 2001 - 11:28:28 PST

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    Hi,

    In my experience, if Xsane is installed properly, it should see the same devices
    that scanimage -L sees, for example, snapscan:/dev/sgx, or snapscan:/dev/scanner
    if you created it as a link to your scanner device. Try xscanimage and see if
    scanning works with it. On RH7 it should be installed as a gimp plugin, or may
    work from the command line. Also, you may need to enable debugging by setting
    the environment variable SANE_DEBUG_SNAPSCAN=128 to see what's going on. Other
    issues that people run into are ownership and file permissions, etc.

    John

    Steve Cooper wrote:

    > 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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