Henning, A friend of mine has an Artec 1236USB which we are trying to set up. The vendor/product number is 0x05d8 0x4001. I thought it used a GT chip, and indeed the Windows side of my friend's machine did install the gt68xx(something).usb file and another, similar file in the winnt directory.
However, when I could not get it to work easily I started to search around. I have found on the web page about the gt68xx status that 0x05d8 0x4002 comes in many disguises and is supported, but 0x05d8 0x4001 is "another chip." Searching further, I found a letter from Gerhard Jaeger to sane-devel which says that Artec 1236 has an LM983x chip inside (more or less like my Canon N670U that we all had so much fun with). So I tried editing the /etc/sane.d/plustek.conf file to get scanimage -L to see the scanner, but still no luck. So I would say that I am looking for further guidance from those more knowledgeable. First, is this scanner really a GT68xx chip or an LM983x ? What is the current level of knowledge about it? I think I might be able to interest this guy in further testing. The machine is running Slackware-9.0, with the "stock" sane package, which is release 1.06. Kernel version is 2.4.20. Incidentally, the same setup runs my Canon N670U quite nicely. Thanks for all of the help over the last year! Theodore Kilgore
