Is this another windows driver that uses usbscan.sys??? Bob In message <48C64A13.6030407 at uni-bonn.de>, Daniel Stender <uzstzm at uni- bonn.de> writes >Jay Anderson wrote: > >> I'm trying to get this scanner to work. I'm on Ubuntu 8.04. >> >>> lsusb >> Bus 003 Device 005: ID 055f:040b Mustek Systems, Inc. >>> sane-find-scanner -q >> found USB scanner (vendor=0x055f [Hewlett-Packard. ], product=0x040b >> [USB2.0 Scanner ], chip=SQ113) at libusb:003:005 >> >> In my searching I found >> http://www.meier-geinitz.de/sane/mustek_usb2-backend/. >> >> I found another thread >> (http://www.nabble.com/Mustek-ScanExpress-A3-600-USB-Pro-td14698028.html) >which >> suggested trying the latest backend snapshot >> (http://www.sane-project.org/snapshots/) and changing the ProductID and >VendorID >> to match what this scanner has. I've done that rebuilt and installed (make && >> make install). >> >> After this xsane comes up and can communicate with the scanner. When I >> preview >> the image it comes back with garbage -- multi-colored vertical stripes (when >> I >> scanned an image it also came back with garbage). So it is similar enough to >> control the scanner it seems. >> >> Has anyone else had any luck with this scanner? >> >> I'm willing (though I'm not sure how able I am) to spend some time digging >> around in the code to figure it out a bit more. I don't really know where to >> start so any pointers here would be useful. Thanks. >> >> -----Jay > >Don't know what this means for the 1200 DPI model, but the state of affairs >concerning the ScanExpress A3 600 is that there is a Mustek driver here: >http://www.mustek.com.tw/apprg/countdriverdownloadtimes?LINK=ftp://ftp.mustek.co >m.tw/pub//driver/A3IIIU2/600DPI/Linux/1LV1019/libsane_1.0.19-1_i386.deb&DRIVERFI >LEID=447 >http://www.mustek.com.tw/apprg/countdriverdownloadtimes?LINK=ftp://ftp.mustek.co >m.tw/pub//driver/A3IIIU2/600DPI/Linux/1LV1019/sane-backends-1.0.19-2.i386.rpm&DR >IVERFILEID=449 > >These are RPMs (i386) including a customized mustek_usb2 driver (libsane >1.0.19). It was impossible for me to get these drivers running (suspected to >be quick'n'dirty) and also I would like to run other scanners in addition. >I've >written several time to Mustek to give free the source of their >mustek_usb2 with no reply at all. > >Maybe it's a good idea to keep on with the enquiries to give away their >source, >BTW it has been discussed before on the list >(http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/2008-August/022583.html) >that their driver packet injures the GPL of Sane. > >Another way would be naturally to make a driver on our own, begin with a USB >sniff within Windows and to manipulate mustek_usb2 to begin with. But I >do not have any experiences with that. > >Greetings, >Daniel Stender > > > >
-- robert w hall
