Hi, On Thursday 23 June 2005 07:18, [email protected] wrote: > I'm having trouble getting a Plustek 4831P scanner to work with sarge. > There's an Epson printer daisy-chained off the scanner which works with > CUPS. Both worked with Redhat 7.3. > > Any help would be appreciated - I've run out of ideas. > > conf files, debugs, etc: > > mick@dell933 $ dmesg|grep parport > parport: PnPBIOS parport detected. > parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7, using FIFO > [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,EPP,ECP]
--> ECP could be a problem, but let's see. > parport0: Printer, EPSON Stylus COLOR 460 > lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven). --> daisy-chaining might also be a problem... But assuming, that this all worked for you in with RH7.3 it should be okay. > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > mick@dell933 $ scanimage -L > > No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different, > check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by the > sane-find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please read the documentation > which came with this software (README, FAQ, manpages). > ----- > root@dell933: scanimage -L > device `plustek_pp:parport0' is a Plustek 600P/6000P parallel port flatbed > scanner Okay - so there is your problem! The access rights need to be tweaked for the parallel port device. Check ls -l /dev/parport* you should have something like: crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 99, 0 2003-10-02 22:46 /dev/parport0 [SNIPSNAP] Hope this helps Gerhard
