plustek@linuxhacker.org

On Thu February 20 2003 02:56, Douglas Phillipson wrote:
>I'm using sane-backends-1.0.11 with a Epson Perfection 1250 USB
> scanner.
>
>The scanner shows up with "usbview" and sane-find-scanner:
>
>douglas@fastpc:~/sane-backends-1.0.11> sane-find-scanner
>
>
>found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8, product=0x010f) at
> /dev/usb/scanner0 found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8,
> product=0x010f) at /dev/usbscanner # Your USB scanner was
> detected. It may or may not be supported by # SANE. Try scanimage
> -L and read the backend's manpage.
>
>But "scanimage" reports:
>
>scanimage -d epson:/dev/usb/scanner0
>[epson] The device at /dev/usb/scanner0 is not a supported EPSON
> scanner (product id=0x10f)
>[epson] Error opening the devicescanimage: open of device
>epson:/dev/usb/scanner0 failed: Invalid argument
>
>My /etc/sane.d/epson.conf reads:
>
>usb /dev/usb/scanner0
>
>My /etc/sane.d/plustek.conf reads:
>
>[usb] 0x04B8 0x010f
>device /dev/usbscanner
>option lampOff 0
>option warmup 10
>
>This scanner is in the compatibility chart.  Does anyone know what
> might be going on here?
>
>Thanks
>
>Doug Phillipson

Old kernel version?  That scanner wasn't in the kernels 
drivers/usb/scanner.h file until about 2.4.13 IIRC, when i got 
tired of adding it manually, found the maintainer and emailed him 
regarding it.

One case where bleeding edge kernels are to be prefered, 2.4.21-pre3 
here.

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