plustek: Thread: driver

Gerhard,
I typed in export SANE_DEBUG_PLUSTEK=12
then scanimage -L and got nothing. then I checked /etc/sane.d and plustek.conf was not there so I copied it there from the sane directory to there and in the dll.conf plustek was also not listed so I added it and disabled all the other scanners listed but plustek. mandrake by default installs sane at install is there a way to install the driver with the preinstalled sane or should the preinstalled sane be removed first? if so how do I remove the preinstalled sane? also is there a person that has already installed your driver under mandrake that I may contact that can help me with the mandrake installation?
Forrest White

On Don, 31 Aug 2000, Forrest White wrote:
> >%_Gerhard,
> I typed in export SANE_DEBUG_PLUSTEK=12
> then scanimage -L and got nothing. then I checked /etc/sane.d and plustek.conf was not there so I copied it there from the sane directory to there and in the dll.conf plustek was also not listed so I added it and disabled all the other scanners listed but plustek. mandrake by default installs sane at install is there a way to install the driver with the preinstalled sane or should the preinstalled sane be removed first? if so how do I remove the preinstalled sane? also is there a person that has already installed your driver under mandrake that I may contact that can help me with the mandrake installation?
> Forrest White
> 
I recommend to uninstall the previous one.
I think Mandrake uses RPM for managing the packages. To remove sane
do the following (as root)

Ask for all installed packages and filter sane:
rpm -qa | grep sane
you should get somnething like this:
sane-1.0.1-94
Now remove this package:

rpm -e sane-1.0.1-94

After theses steps, sane should be removed.
I'm not sure,  but you might have to remove the /etc/sane.d 
manually...
Now got to your sane-1.0.3 stuff and reinstall this 
as described. Before using, you might have a look
at the dll.conf and enable only the plustek backend.

Maybe there's somebody out there in the mailing-list
who also uses Mandrake....

Gerhard

Hi
I have a Plustek scanner its Opticpro4830p. I have done some programming 
but still this site doesn't make sense to me. what is Sane? and how can 
 i find which drive is for my scanner?
Can you tell me please which driver i should download and how to install?
Also has this scanner ever worked under linux?


Thank you
naJ

Hi,

SANE stands for Scanner Access Now Easy - see http://www.mostang.com/sane
for more information. As this toolbox only supports SCSI and USB devices out
of the box, you need the driver module from
http://www.gjaeger.de/scanner/plustek.html
to make the OP4830p work. I have this device here and it used to work when
you take care on some limitations...

Cheers
   Gerhard

On Monday, 5. August 2002 18:12, nnozad wrote:
> Hi
> I have a Plustek scanner its Opticpro4830p. I have done some programming
> but still this site doesn't make sense to me. what is Sane? and how can
>  i find which drive is for my scanner?
> Can you tell me please which driver i should download and how to install?
> Also has this scanner ever worked under linux?
>
>
> Thank you
> naJ