Re: usb scanner, kernel 2.6.3
On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 09:32:48PM +0100, Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen wrote:
> Philippe Marzouk wrote:
>
> >On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 09:05:08AM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Where is the option for usb scanner when compiling your kernel? It
> >>seems that it was forgotten. Yesterday I found out that to use the
> >>scanner I had to boot with the 2.4.22 image, now I am trying to
> >>recompile the image 2.6.3 to add scanner support but I can find only
> >>for microtek, and no generic as it used to be. I am suspending the
> >>compiling until I find out more about it.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >The kernel changelog mentions it, it is now deprecated and removed from
> >the kernel you have to swith to using libusb.
> >
> >For my Epson scanner I had simply to put
> >
> >usb
> >
> >on the epson.conf file
> >
> >Philippe
> >
> >
> >
> For my epson it was not as simple.
> Sane is now supported by libusb and not kernel.
> Run sane-find-scanner. You get something like this:
>
> found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8 [EPSON], product=0x0104
> [Perfection1200]) at libusb:001:003
> # Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be
> supported by
> # SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage.
>
> Then I put this in /etc/sane.d/epson.conf:
> usb libusb:001:003
>
> Scanner OK.
But then next time you plug it in it may be on another bus and you'll
have to change the configuration.
Philippe
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