Hi Darren,
Glad to see that someone else has one of these running. I'm afraid I
don't quite know how to do what you suggest. Inside /dev I have a
multitude of files and It's not clear to me which relate to scanners.
Who would I determine this?
Being a newbie, I'm also not clear about how to go about making a group
for the scanner - at home there's really only me that uses it (my wife
is a 'user' but has steered clear of Linux - until I can get all this
going, she's not clear, and I can't exactly show her, why there's any
advantage over using any of our other Win machines :)
That all said, I'm sure it'll get done - struggle struggle.
Thanks,
Patrick
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Darren Williams
Sent: Wednesday, 15 September 2004 4:01 PM
To: Elliott-Brennan
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Scanner probs
Hi Elliott-Brennan
I have just gone through this with a Acer 640u scanner
so what you have done so far is correct, the only other
thingI did different was to delete all the scanner
entries under /dev
This then allows libusb to handle the devices.
Note this was done using:
Linux 2.6.x
libusb
usbfs
mount the usbfs
mount -t usbfs -o defaults,devmode=0666 /proc/bus/usb none none
or in fstab add
none /proc/bus/usb usbfs defaults,devmode=0666 0 0
Adjust permission as you see fit, though root should
work. I created a group scanner and adjusted the
owners, groups and perms, see man mount for details
on options for device mount options.
On Wed, 15 Sep 2004, Elliott-Brennan wrote:
> Hi, (I tried to send a previous group mail, but it doesn't appear to
> have 'appeared') - sorry if this turns out to be a multiple post -
> some probs have been resolved thanks to previous assistance.
>
> Problems with a Diamond View scanner:
>
> (my aim is to run all my periphs in Mandrake, so I can change
> completely from win2000)
>
> I found a site in which the following was suggested:
>
> (http://www.linuxchix.org/pipermail/techtalk/2003-October/016686.html)
>
> " 1. On the scanner's installation CD, in the drivers (I think Win98
> drivers dir), find 'u96v121.bin' and copy it to /dev/usb/u96v121.bin
> (or where you
> want your driver binaries - I know I'm a bit weird ;)
>
> 2. edit /etc/scan.d/snapscan.conf, changing the firmware line to read:
> firmware /dev/usb/u96v121.bin
>
> Be sure it points to the exact path where you put the binary!
>
> And that's it! :) Now you can use Kooka or Xsane to do your scanning,
> or scan from GIMP even!"
> ************
> Now, from a response by another SLUG member, James, I gather I can't
> do that - though someone responded to the above site saying it worked
> - ????
>
> My scanner is supposed to be an Acer/Benq clone: 640U flatbed USB
> color scanner.
>
> When I run:
> $ sane-find-scanner
>
> # No SCSI ...
>
> Found USB scanner (vendor=0x04a5 [Color], product=0x2060 [
> FlatbedScanner 13]) at libusb:001:002
> # Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be
> supported by
> # SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage.
>
> ********
> scanimage -L gives:
> Device 'snapscan:libusb:001:002' is a Acer Flatbed Scanner 13
>
> Also:
> # You may want to run this program as root to find all devices. Once
> you # found the scanner devices, be sure to adjust access permissions
> as # necessary.
>
> This is the only scanner - how do you assign permission?
>
> When I run Xsane, I get (both as su and as patrick):
>
> Failed to open device 'snapscan:libusb:001:002': invalid argument.
>
> Kooka, on execution, sees the scanner, then when it opens completely,
> it says - no scanner detected (in a little window at the bottom left)
>
> BTW. When I installed SANE it was as a tar.gz - I didn't realise it
> was on my Mandrake discs. I put the tar.gz in my downloads file and
> installed. Now in my download file I have a file called
> sane-backends-1.0.14.
>
> I'm wondering if I should uninstall all SANE files etc and reload??
>
> I *sort of* understand the directions in the SANE manual pages, but
> not exactly and am concerned about doing something that.. well.. you
> know. http://www.sane-project.org/man/sane-usb.5.html
>
> $ chgrp scanner /dev/usb/scanner0
> $ chmod 660 /dev/usb/scanner0
>
> I don't know if my scanner is in fact /dev/usb/scanner0
>
> Whilst:
> cat /proc/bus/usb/devices/
>
> Says "not a directory".
>
> Thanks.
> Patrick
>
>
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