plustek: Epson Perfection 1250/Sane-1.0.7/plustek-sane-0_42_5
Subject:
Re: Epson Perfection 1250/sane-1.0.7/plustek-sane-0_42_5
From:
"Jaeger, Gerhard" ####@####.####
Date:
28 Mar 2002 07:23:14 -0000
Message-Id: <200203280650.HAA09729@kah.ulm.sysgo.de>
On Mittwoch, 27. März 2002 23:38, Phil'sFree wrote:
[SNIP]
> > As the parallelport devices disappear more and more, Plustek
> > now produces USB scanner and last year I deciced to port one
> > of the Plustek drivers to Linux. This driver is now also
> > part of the backend for SANE and interacts with the USB subsystem
> > of the OS.
>
> Here I think you mean "driver" as a piece of the Sane layer,
> specificially dedicated to a specific scanner (family),
> not as a piece of the kernel or a kernel module. Right ?
Driver means here the former NT-driver code I got from Plustek
>
> > Now we have at least one backend, that is able to control a
> > parallelport scanner (by talking to /dev/pt_drv) and/or a
> > USB scanner (by talking to /dev/usbscanner or so).
>
> That looks clear now for me.
>
> > What do you need to make the EPSON work?
> > At least a working USB subsystem --> refer to your system manuals
>
> I think that it is my last problem.
> What is the oldest kernel version that can be used efficiently
> with an USB scanner module such as the EPSON 1250 and the SANE-1.0.7
> backend ?
>
> I failed to use it with a 2.2.17-21mdk kernel which is good enough
> for my USB HP printer.
>
> I can quite easily get a 2.4.17 kernel. Is it sufficient ?
> Or must I download a 2.4.18 kernel ?
>
I'm not sure about 2.2.17, I ran the scanner most of the time
using kernel 2.2.19 and sometimes using 2.4.17...
2.4.17 is the better choice for experimenting with the scanner
I think...
Good luck so far
Gerhard
