Hi, On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 10:43:46AM -0500, Roger O Wales wrote: > > So what do you want to achieve? What doesn't work when you do what > > I told you? What did you do until now? What scanner do you use? Which > > operating system? Which version of SANE? > > I can answer a few of your questions. I use Visioneer OneTouch 5800 on a > Mandrake 9.1 operating system.
That one is unsupported by SANE as far as we know. > I have a scanner0 at /dev/usb I believe > I hace an unsupported scanner. sane-find-scanner found USB scanner > vendor=0x04a7 (Visioneer) and product=0x0226 (Model 5800). Ok, so the kernel has detected it. That's ok. > I have inserted these into /etc/modules.conf. Ok, but probably not necessary. > > With supported scanners and recent Linux distributions your USB scanner > should just work out-of-the-box. > > Since I don't have that luxury, I have to choose to write a SANE driver > for Visioneer 5800 or try to use a generic libusb driver. No, you don't have these choice. You (or someone else) must write a SANE driver (backend). That backend uses either libusb or the kernel scanner driver. So definitely need a SANE backend for every scanner. libusb and the kernel scanner driver just provide the means to contact the scanner. All the "intelligent" work is done in the backend. > I don't know how to do either one of these, so I must call for HELP! Well, see the discussions on this list and: http://www.meier-geinitz.de/sane/misc/unsupported.html Bye, Henning
