Am Donnerstag, 27. Januar 2005 21:01 schrieb M. Paula Schiaffino: > Hi: > I=B4m trying to install my scanner umax astra 1220S (Domex scsi) on Linux > (Mandrake 10) and need some help. As I=B4ve understood, I need both the s= ane > backends (which I have already downloaded =A8sane-backends-1.0.15.tar.gz= =A8 > from http://www.sane-project.org/source.html) and the file sane-umax which > uses the previous one. I=B4ve looked for sane-umax-1.0.4-build-25.tar.gz = or > similar (like sane-umax-1.0.13) but I can=B4t find any place from where I= can > download it. Please, I would like you to send this file to me or, if I > misunderstood and these are not the correct steps, could you tell me how > can I install my scanner? Thank you very much. > > Best regards > Paula
Hello Paula, the frontends like commandline or GUI programs (scanimage, xscanimage, xsa= ne=20 and so on) are fully independent of the backend drivers. And for the Umax=20 Astra 1220 S you don't need a sane-package with a special versionnumber,=20 anyone will work. Take simply the most recent one. With it it will come the= =20 commandline frontend scanimage. Having installed the package (with "./=20 configure, make and make install") type "scanimage -L" on the command line= =20 and you should see something similar as "device `umax:/dev/scanner' is a UMAX Astra 1220S flatbed scanner if not, maybe a link should be set by typing "ln -s /dev/sg0 /dev/scanner". Then it should work. And with sane-find-scanner on the commandline you shou= ld=20 get something like "found SCSI scanner "UMAX Astra 1220S V1.3" at /dev/scanner found SCSI scanner "UMAX Astra 1220S V1.3" at /dev/sg0" If you can connect to the scanner only as root, the permissions should be=20 adjusted. If nothing works, have a look at the dll.conf file in /etc/sane.d=20 (or /usr/local/etc) and secure that "umax" is uncommented. Finally you may= =20 check whether your scsi-controller is recognized and fuelled with an=20 appropriate driver module at boottime. The controller needs its own driver= =20 from the start on (this is a problem of its own and has directly nothing to= =20 do with sane). As a graphical frontend for sane xsane is highly recommendable. It's to be= =20 installed separately and can be plugged into Gimp. To simplify the sane-installation you could try to get a rpm-package (must = fit=20 to your distribution and distri-version-number). The mandrake-server should= =20 provide the right one. Last but not least the sane project is very well documented and you can get= in=20 depth information for umax-scanners in the documentation which comes with t= he=20 package. On my machine it resides in=20 " /usr/share/doc/packages/sane/sane-backends/umax/sane-umax-vista-doc.html". Maybe on yours it's to be found somewhere in the doc-directory in /usr/loca= l. Greetings and good luck Wolfram Heider
