plustek@linuxhacker.org

Errata and a few additional considerations:

1. Where I wrote
/etc/sane/

please read:
/etc/sane.d/

2. The most relevant steps in my previous message are #6 and $7. The remaining steps
where designed to not break the RPM database of Mandriva, but there are alternative
ways that can be followed by experienced users;

3. Exactly as suggested by the documentation, it is advisable to set the parallel port
mode in BIOS to EPP, and NOT choosing ECP or ECP+EPP. In this particular machine, the
EPP 1.7 mode works better than the EPP 1.9 mode;

4. When I switch the power on, the scanner's light turns on and remains in that state
until the sane backend accesses it, provided that /etc/sane.d/plustek_pp.conf contains
"option lOffOnEnd 1". Since I'm not using the scanner all the time, and I don't like
the fact that the lamp stays on for hours or days without being used, I created a simple
initscript that works well in any recent version of Mandrake or Mandriva. The script
is saved to /etc/init.d/ with the name "lampoff" and then activating it in the default
runlevels by running "chkconfig --add lampoff", as root:

#!/bin/bash
#
# chkconfig: 12345 24 60
# description: activate and turn off scanner lamp at boot

#Sources Functions
. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions

# see how we were called.
case "$1" in
  start)
    scanimage -n
    touch /var/lock/subsys/lampoff
    ;;
  stop)
    rm -f /var/lock/subsys/lampoff
    ;;
  status)
    echo "no available status info"
    ;;
  restart)
    scanimage -n
    touch /var/lock/subsys/lampoff
    ;;
  *)
    gprintf "*** Usage: $0 {start|stop|status|restart}\n"
    exit 1
esac

exit 0

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