Hi, (I tried to send a previous group mail, but it doesn't appear to have 'appeared') - sorry if this turns out to be a multiple post - some probs have been resolved thanks to previous assistance.
Problems with a Diamond View scanner: (my aim is to run all my periphs in Mandrake, so I can change completely from win2000) I found a site in which the following was suggested: (http://www.linuxchix.org/pipermail/techtalk/2003-October/016686.html) " 1. On the scanner's installation CD, in the drivers (I think Win98 drivers dir), find 'u96v121.bin' and copy it to /dev/usb/u96v121.bin (or where you want your driver binaries - I know I'm a bit weird ;) 2. edit /etc/scan.d/snapscan.conf, changing the firmware line to read: firmware /dev/usb/u96v121.bin Be sure it points to the exact path where you put the binary! And that's it! :) Now you can use Kooka or Xsane to do your scanning, or scan from GIMP even!" ************ Now, from a response by another SLUG member, James, I gather I can't do that - though someone responded to the above site saying it worked - ???? My scanner is supposed to be an Acer/Benq clone: 640U flatbed USB color scanner. When I run: $ sane-find-scanner # No SCSI ... Found USB scanner (vendor=0x04a5 [Color], product=0x2060 [ FlatbedScanner 13]) at libusb:001:002 # Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be supported by # SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage. ******** scanimage -L gives: Device 'snapscan:libusb:001:002' is a Acer Flatbed Scanner 13 Also: # You may want to run this program as root to find all devices. Once you # found the scanner devices, be sure to adjust access permissions as # necessary. This is the only scanner - how do you assign permission? When I run Xsane, I get (both as su and as patrick): Failed to open device 'snapscan:libusb:001:002': invalid argument. Kooka, on execution, sees the scanner, then when it opens completely, it says - no scanner detected (in a little window at the bottom left) BTW. When I installed SANE it was as a tar.gz - I didn't realise it was on my Mandrake discs. I put the tar.gz in my downloads file and installed. Now in my download file I have a file called sane-backends-1.0.14. I'm wondering if I should uninstall all SANE files etc and reload?? I *sort of* understand the directions in the SANE manual pages, but not exactly and am concerned about doing something that.. well.. you know. http://www.sane-project.org/man/sane-usb.5.html $ chgrp scanner /dev/usb/scanner0 $ chmod 660 /dev/usb/scanner0 I don't know if my scanner is in fact /dev/usb/scanner0 Whilst: cat /proc/bus/usb/devices/ Says "not a directory". Thanks. Patrick -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
