On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 09:32:48PM +0100, Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen wrote: > Philippe Marzouk wrote: > > >On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 09:05:08AM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > > > > >>Where is the option for usb scanner when compiling your kernel? It > >>seems that it was forgotten. Yesterday I found out that to use the > >>scanner I had to boot with the 2.4.22 image, now I am trying to > >>recompile the image 2.6.3 to add scanner support but I can find only > >>for microtek, and no generic as it used to be. I am suspending the > >>compiling until I find out more about it. > >> > >> > >> > > > >The kernel changelog mentions it, it is now deprecated and removed from > >the kernel you have to swith to using libusb. > > > >For my Epson scanner I had simply to put > > > >usb > > > >on the epson.conf file > > > >Philippe > > > > > > > For my epson it was not as simple. > Sane is now supported by libusb and not kernel. > Run sane-find-scanner. You get something like this: > > found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8 [EPSON], product=0x0104 > [Perfection1200]) at libusb:001:003 > # Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be > supported by > # SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage. > > Then I put this in /etc/sane.d/epson.conf: > usb libusb:001:003 > > Scanner OK.
But then next time you plug it in it may be on another bus and you'll have to change the configuration. Philippe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
