plustek@linuxhacker.org
Hi to all,
Thanks for your help,
after a second start, my scanner is working now.
But on a terrible way.
I don't have a preview.
The colours of the pics are sometimes on different places, so it looks like
shadow pics.
I have only 2 resolutions for scanning: 50 dpi or 300 dpi
and now the important
I cant use my scanner in GIMP.
The graphical scan plugin is installed but it is also not working.
Slowly but shurly I'm not more believing my pc.
I only changed the motherboard and the harddisk, but nothing is working on the
same way like before.
Is this possible?
Before the changing the scanner was working very good with "Sane 1.0.7 and
X-Sane 0.9.0 and Plustek Driver 0.41.5".
Tommorow I will remove Sane again, also the driver and the frontends and I
will try it again.
Perhaps someone can help.
regards
Karsten
Am Freitag, 30. Mai 2003 11:00 schrieben Sie:
> Hi Karsten,
>
> I have successfully gotten my Canoscan N670U up and
> running under RedHat 7.2, SuSE 8.0 Pro and Mandrake 9.0. I'm not saying it
> was very easy, but Gerhard certainly helped me. The trick is that installs
> by default do not replace existing files at all, so complete and utter
> removal is required (from /etc/sane.d and /usr/local/etc/sane.d etc etc.
> Below is a quick list of to-dos that may help in your success.
>
> Download latest sane-backends and plustek module. (as source code)
>
> Do all steps as ROOT!
>
> Completely remove all previously installed versions of sane-backends and
> sane-frontends, xsane, scanimage etc.
>
> when re-compiling, use ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc
>
> remove any modules you will not be using, especially ones that might
> recognise your scanner. Also remove any reference to your scanner from
> dll.conf.
>
> when loading your scanner module, use insmod scanner vendor=XXXXX
> product=XXXXX format, inserting your particulars for your scanner where
> appropriate.
>
> If you do all of this as root, and do your scanimage -L, you should be up
> and running. If you get success, try xsane and if all that works, you
> should be up and running (as root anyways, as your general login user, it
> becomes murky, and I cannot be of much help there being a fairly newbie
> anyways).
>
> The important things are being root user, configuring with set parameters
> for prefix and sysconfdir, removing possibly conflicting modules and .conf
> files (this will speed up your scanner search too). The most important item
> is loading the module with vendor and product info. This is the key that
> brings it all together.
>
> Hope this gets you going, it certainly helped me with my USB scanner. Don't
> forget to edit your plustek.conf file to reflect your scanners settings
> etc. Somone should be able to supply you with a working plustek.conf file
> via the mailing list, so use this option if you are absolutely stuck.
>
> Good luck friend!
>
> Craig Cooper
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Karsten Giesow" <K.Giesow@gmx.net>
> To: "Scanner" <plustek@linuxhacker.org>
> Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 8:52 AM
> Subject: Re: Sane 1.0.7 and SuSE 8.0
>
>
> Hi Gerhard,
>
> I followed your instruction exact, but it is not working.
> ---
> karsten@linux:~> scanimage -L
>
> No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different,
> check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by the
> sane-find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please read the documentation
> which came with this software (README, FAQ, manpages).
> ------------
>
> That is all what I get.
> I can't bring my scanner to work anymore.
> Now it is not more working, I don't know why. Also not on the command line.
> I know, I had it last time working with xscanimage,xsane and also kooka.
>
> Perhaps you can help.
>
> regards
> Karsten
>
> Am Dienstag, 27. Mai 2003 08:21 schrieb Gerhard Jaeger:
> > Hi Karsten,
> >
> > a few points on that:
> > If you use SuSE (of course you do), then I suggest to install the rpm,
> > regardless of the version. So you make sure not to break any dependencies
> > (more or less a cosmetical thing).
>
> That's the Problem
> At the end is the list of all rpm based installed Sane files.
> There is no */sane-backend file.
> So I don't know where I must install the driver.
> I Know it is working, because last time I made it also with sane 1.0.7
> but I don't know, was it the download sane-tar.gz or the rpm from my
> distribution.
> I only must know which file is the right one for the driver.
> That's my problem.
>
> >To update these rather old packages, get
> > the latest SANE-tar balls AND do the configure step for BOTH (backend and
> > frontend):
> > ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc
> > make all
> > make install
> >
> > After the configure step check for any problems in the output, it might
>
> be,
>
> > that you need to install some libraries, which are needed for i.e. the
> > GUIs...
> >
> > This used to work, at least on my box at home (also a SuSE 8.0), this
> > even works here on my laptop (SuSE 8.2)...
> >
> > XSane is not part of any SANE-package! But it's included in SuSE 8.0 as
> > separate package, use the search option in YAST...
> >
> > These are the basic steps, in your case you also need to compile
> > pt drv - for this one you'll need at least the linux-kernel headers and
>
> the
>
> > other two ones, which I mentioned yesterday...
> >
> > Gerhard
> >
> > On Montag, 26. Mai 2003 23:15, Karsten Giesow wrote:
> > > Am Montag, 26. Mai 2003 09:25 schrieb Gerhard Jaeger:
> > > > Hi Karsten,
> > > >
> > > > sorry for the late response! I was out on the weekend and did not
> > > > check my mailbox frequently... Please only answer to the list, so I
>
> get
>
> > > > a chance to reply even when I'm on work...
> > > >
> > > > The good ole' SuSE problem came up!!! You should at least install
> > > > your linux-headers. Then copy the alos installed headers
> > > > /boot/vmlimnuz.autoconf.h
> > > > /boot/vmlimnuz.version.h
> > > > to
> > > > /usr/src/linux/include/linux/version.h
> > > > /usr/src/linux/include/linux/autoconf.h
> > > >
> > > > Then compilation should work...
> > >
> > > Sorry it's not working.
> > >
> > > 1. If I have installed the SANE-Package from the SuSE-CD there is no
> > > backend. I removed it with YAST and installed
> > > sane-backend-1.0.7 from a sane-backend-1.0.7.tar.gz file
> > > also I tried to install the frontend from a sane-frontend-1.0.7.tar.gz
> > > file then I installed the plustek driver.
> > > It's working but only from the command line.
> > > There is no frontend like Xscanimage or Xsane.
> > > But during the compilation and installation from the sane frontend
> > > there was no warning.
> > > How can I bring in the driver including a graphical frontend.
> > > I'm not so good on the command line.
> > > Can you help me again?
> > >
> > > I have already removed sane.
> > >
> > > I will try it again tomorrow.
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