Hi everyone, Im a very happy person now! Thanks to all who gave me suggestions, I have now got sane working on my system.
after a week and a half I finally got it working, now I want to make a some documentation for anyone else using the plustek 9636P parallel scanner. I would hate to see anyone else go through what I have went thru in the past week. can anyone tell me what, how, when, where, whoever to contact, to make a plustek 9636P HOWTO, manpage, or whatever else I can do to get some "EXACT" documentation out there? David M. AIM: dmcglone27 On Sunday 23 December 2001 10:55 pm, you wrote: > On Sunday 23 December 2001 08:54 pm, David McGlone wrote: > >Hello everyone, > > > >I have a plustek 9636P parallel scanner, and running RH 7.2. I > > have removed all sane from my system and downloaded the > > sane-backends 1.0.6, sane frontends 1.0.6 and the newest xsane. > > I have also downloaded the plustek-module. > > > >I have installed sane over a darn million times and I can't seem > > to get my scanner working. > > > >here's what I did as per the instructions. > >I installed sane-backends 1.0.6 then I moved the plustek-module > > to the backend/plustek_driver and unpackaged it and did "make > > all" then as root "make install" > > You haven't specified what version of the plustek package. > > I assume you have the *_13 package, in which case theres a fairly > extensive amount of help in the plustek_drivers/FAQ. Failing > that, I'd assume its time to turn up the debugging and see where > its dying. And then polish up your C skills and fix it, > reposting the fixes someplace. > > I don't have the particular one, I'm working at a snails pace on > the epson 1250u myself, but ATM I'm getting the dreaded -1 error > out of a read operation about 3 megs into a scan that otherwise > looks like it would adjust to something usable. > > >ok at this point everything should be set to go, the > > instructions say to "make load", and the light comes on. > > Is it supposed to at that point? All you did was load the > driver. IMO it should not turn on the light until sane tells it > to. But then I'm just a big dummy at coding in my later years. > > >now I install the sane-frontends 1.0.6 and the latest xsane. > > > >now scanner seems to be working, except xsane does not find it! > >so I resort to "sane-find-scanner" and still nothing. so I try > > scanimage -L and still nothing. > > Did you set the correct device in plustek.desc? > > >can I please get some help here, I have installed and > > uninstalled and manually removed sane from all dirrectories and > > installed even more on both SuSE 7.1 and RH 7.2 with SuSE > > running the newest 2.4.16 kernel and RH running the 2.4.7-10 > > kernel. > > > >overall problem, I can get the scanner light on, but nothing > > else. > > > >Note: If problem is distro specific, I prefer suggestions for > > the RH machine. > > > >I have remove all sane from my system again and will install it > > again if I can get some help. > > > >if anyone would like to contact me thru aim my screen name is > > below > > > >Thanks > >David M. > >AIM: dmcglone27 > > > >---------------------------------------------------------------- > >----- To unsubscribe, e-mail: > > [email protected] For additional commands, > > e-mail: [email protected]
