If I recall correctly, the driver that mustek provides does not have all its source code included, so it cannot be made a part of sane-backends. Perhaps someday someone who wants this scanner to work with truly free software will write a backend for it.
allan On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 3:54 PM, T.Kov?cs csal?d <t.kovacs.csalad at gmail.com> wrote: > Sorry, Y need to repeat my problem. > > My Mustek scanner theoretically works well with sane, but it is not > recognized automatically. > After the installing of an old backend (from the official Mustek site), > works just in SUDO mode. > On 64 bit system it could not be used anyway. > > Any help on fixing the backend in the SANE official package, for automatic > use in the future? > > Thanks for Your attention! > > > > 2012. m?rcius 5. 21:09 T.Kov?cs csal?d ?rta, <t.kovacs.csalad at gmail.com>: > >> Dear SANE developers! >> Y have a Mutek ScanExpress A3 USB 1200 Pro scanner. >> >> It hase a driver on the Mustek official page, which I was able to use with >> Ubuntu 10.4. >> >> http://www.mustek.com.tw/apprg/countdriverdownloadtimes?LINK=ftp://ftp.mustek.com.tw/pub//driver/A3IIIU2/600DPI/Linux/1LV1019/libsane_1.0.19-1_i386.deb&DRIVERFILEID=447 >> >> On Ubuntu 11.10 it can't be installed due to the late sane version >> (1.0.19). But it is possible to use the backend from it >> (libsane-mustek_usb2.so.1.0.19), installed manually. But unfortunatelly the >> SCANIMAGE finds the scanner just in sudo mode. >> On the system in 64 bit, it is not possible to use in any configuration. >> >> It should be possible to integrate this driver in Sane proiect, to be used >> automatically in the future? >> Or maibe, it is just a case of settings? >> There is a forum or a help-list for this scanner? >> >> The output of sane-find-scanner is: >> found USB scanner (vendor=0x055f, product=0x040b, chip=SQ113?) at >> libusb:002:004 >> >> Thank You for helping! >> T.K.Aron (Arhitect) > > > > -- > sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel > Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" > ? ? ? ? ? ? to sane-devel-request at lists.alioth.debian.org -- "The truth is an offense, but not a sin"
