plustek: Thread: CanoScan N670U under SANE 1.0.8

Hello,

I am working with the developers of canonscanner.sourceforge.net and have 
worked on the CanoScan N670U. Before helping them, I looked at the SANE 
project page and I could not find a hint for support of my scanner model.

Today I had too much time and I surfed through the web, finding out that SANE 
has changed its website overview of supported scanners. I looked for my model 
and was wondering it should be supported by the plustek backend. So I have 
spent my time for low :-(

Now my question: Because of working on a backend, my scanner already is 
included in modules.conf with vendor id 0x04a9 and product id 0x220d. 
Although I have set up the plustek.conf with

[usb] 0x04A9 0x220D
device /dev/usbscanner

xsane is unable to find my scanner. I took the original plustek.conf and put 
hash markes before [paralell] and device /dev/pt_drv. The rest of the given 
options are still untouched, except the two options mentioned below.

What could be wrong? If the scanner is really working with this backend, I 
have to tell the developers of canonscanner.sf.net that they can stop 
supporting the N670U.

I was pleased to get an answer

Regards

Christian

Am Donnerstag, 3. Oktober 2002 23:28 schrieben Sie:
> Christian,
>
> I have one of these N670U, and mine is a pure USB device. Parallel port
> support (in the form of pt_drv.o in particular) has nothing to do with
> getting it to scan. Yours may be different, of course. Canon might be
> selling the scanner in parallel port version, too, for all I know.
>
> Theodore Kilgore

My scanner is also a pure USB model, but it does not work. How did you set up 
your plustek.conf to get your scanner working?

Regards

Christian

>
> On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Christian [iso-8859-15] Rößner wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am working with the developers of canonscanner.sourceforge.net and have
> > worked on the CanoScan N670U. Before helping them, I looked at the SANE
> > project page and I could not find a hint for support of my scanner model.
> >
> > Today I had too much time and I surfed through the web, finding out that
> > SANE has changed its website overview of supported scanners. I looked for
> > my model and was wondering it should be supported by the plustek backend.
> > So I have spent my time for low :-(
> >
> > Now my question: Because of working on a backend, my scanner already is
> > included in modules.conf with vendor id 0x04a9 and product id 0x220d.
> > Although I have set up the plustek.conf with
> >
> > [usb] 0x04A9 0x220D
> > device /dev/usbscanner
> >
> > xsane is unable to find my scanner. I took the original plustek.conf and
> > put hash markes before [paralell] and device /dev/pt_drv. The rest of the
> > given options are still untouched, except the two options mentioned
> > below.
> >
> > What could be wrong? If the scanner is really working with this backend,
> > I have to tell the developers of canonscanner.sf.net that they can stop
> > supporting the N670U.
> >
> > I was pleased to get an answer
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Christian
> >
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Hi Christian,

On Friday, 4. October 2002 14:24, Christian Rößner wrote:
[SNIPSANP]
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I am working with the developers of canonscanner.sourceforge.net and
> > > have worked on the CanoScan N670U. Before helping them, I looked at the
> > > SANE project page and I could not find a hint for support of my scanner
> > > model.
> > >
> > > Today I had too much time and I surfed through the web, finding out
> > > that SANE has changed its website overview of supported scanners. I
> > > looked for my model and was wondering it should be supported by the
> > > plustek backend. So I have spent my time for low :-(

You might can help to improve the Plustek backend here as the calibration does
currently not work

> > > Now my question: Because of working on a backend, my scanner already is
> > > included in modules.conf with vendor id 0x04a9 and product id 0x220d.
> > > Although I have set up the plustek.conf with
> > >
> > > [usb] 0x04A9 0x220D
> > > device /dev/usbscanner

The setup seems to be okay BUT you will need at least the latest SANE
snapshot 1.0.9-pre to make the scanner work.

Hope this helps 
  Gerhard