plustek: Plustek driver
Subject:
Re: Plustek driver
From:
"Jaeger, Gerhard" ####@####.####
Date:
5 Jul 2002 14:57:44 -0000
Message-Id: <17QUJN-2El67EC@fmrl05.sul.t-online.com>
On Friday, 5. July 2002 00:56, Sébastien Miguet wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I've got exactly the same problem,
> but with Linux Suse 8.0 .
>
> http://www.mostang.com/pipermail/sane-devel/2001-December/001759.html
>
> So, how did you solve it?
> I didn't find the answer to this previous link
>
> I've installed my scanner on Linux Suse 7.3; this was working,
> but now, it doesn't work anymore!
> (I removed all the old version of sane and xsane,
> but when I try to reinstall it, I've this problem too.)
>
> ---------------------------------------------------
> wgc231:/data1/Softwares/sane/sane-backends-1.0.8/backend/plustek_driver #
> make load
> /sbin/modprobe pt_drv || exit 1
> Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than
> /lib/modules/2.4.18-4GB/modules.dep
> Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than
> /lib/modules/2.4.18-4GB/modules.dep
> /lib/modules/2.4.18-4GB/misc/pt_drv.o: init_module: Success
> Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including
> invalid IO or IRQ parameters
> /lib/modules/2.4.18-4GB/misc/pt_drv.o: insmod
> /lib/modules/2.4.18-4GB/misc/pt_drv.o failed
> /lib/modules/2.4.18-4GB/misc/pt_drv.o: insmod pt_drv failed
> make: *** [load] Error 1
Hi,
according to the mail you refer to, I sent Dave the following advice:
>Dave the problem seems to be, that your scanner isn't recognized!
>I that case, the driver won't be loaded.
>sane-find-scanner won't work with parallel-port devices, it only
>address usb and scsi devices.
>You might enable the debug messages in the driver
>(uncomment the line debug=y in the Makefile) then load again
>and send the output of dmesg to the list!
>What else can you do:
>You can play around with the BIOS settings, make sure to have EPP
>or if that doesn't work SPP enabled.
>You might need to disable the IEEE1284 functionality of hte parport
>module in the kernel configuration, as this sometimes interferes with
>the ASIC inside the Plustek scanner...
The general advice here is to disable ECP mode in BIOS!
Hope this helps again
Gerhard
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gerhard AT gjaeger DOT de
