On Sat, 29 Nov 2003, Martin wrote: > > > > I am setting up an old Ultra 1 as a scanner machine, and I have had > > > > some problems making sane connect to the SCSI-scanner. I have tried > > > > two different kernels, 2.2.20 and 2.4.17, both compiled with > > > > make-kpkg. It works only with the older kernel. > <snip> > > > I had a similar problem with an HP ScanJet 5 (yes - it does play music) > > > from talking to the folks on the SANE mailing lists it seems to be > > > something to do with the SCSI drivers on SPARC but I never got further > > > than that. 's very interesting that 2.2 works. Sorry I can't be of > > > more help. > > OK, it's a little help anyway, since I was thinking of sending this to > > some SANE people (no pun intended :) ). > Last time I spoke to them the SANE dev. team were very keen to hear from > people using GNU/Linux on non-x86 hardware and other more obscure set > ups. > > Could you give a shout if you find out exactly what the problem is / how > to fix it. > > Cheers, > - Martin
The problem was with SANE after all, and it has been fixed in recent versions. With woody, version 1.0.7 is distributed. I compiled sane-backends-1.0.13, and found that "sane-find-scanner" correctly identifies the scanner using both (2.2 and 2.4) kernels. Below is a copy of some commands. /usr/bin/sane-find-scanner is from debian, ./sane-find-scanner is the compiled version. Under 2.4.17, the Debian version incorrectly "finds" only a USB scanner at /dev/scanner. /Pontus rosalia:~# uname -a Linux rosalia 2.4.17 #1 Mon Nov 17 19:09:40 CET 2003 sparc64 unknown rosalia:~# /usr/bin/sane-find-scanner /dev/scanner sane-find-scanner: found USB scanner (UNKNOWN vendor and product) at device /dev/scanner rosalia:~# ./sane-find-scanner /dev/scanner found SCSI processor "EPSON Perfection1200 1.03" at /dev/scanner rosalia:~# --- reboot --- rosalia:~# uname -a Linux rosalia 2.2.20 #2 Wed Nov 26 15:47:00 CET 2003 sparc64 unknown rosalia:~# /usr/bin/sane-find-scanner /dev/scanner sane-find-scanner: found SCSI processor "EPSON Perfection1200 1.03" at device /dev/scanner sane-find-scanner: found USB scanner (UNKNOWN vendor and product) at device /dev/scanner rosalia:~# ./sane-find-scanner /dev/scanner found SCSI processor "EPSON Perfection1200 1.03" at /dev/scanner rosalia:~#
