Re: Getting scanner to work
On Wednesday 27 December 2006 19:15, BALLABIO GERARDO sent this for all our
perusal:
>---> Hi all,
>---> may I please ask for your help.
>--->
>---> I've been given an old scanner by a friend (not sure exactly how old,
>---> but the drivers cd says "windows 95, 98 and NT") and have been trying
> to ---> run it from Debian Sarge. It's the first time I plug a scanner into
> a ---> Linux box.
>--->
>---> After an "apt-get search scanner", I installed sane, then tried to run
>---> xscanimage, but it printed this and exited:
>--->
>---> 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).
>--->
>---> So I tried sane-find-scanner and got this:
>--->
>---> # sane-find-scanner will now attempt to detect your scanner. If the
>---> # result is different from what you expected, first make sure your
>---> # scanner is powered up and properly connected to your computer.
>--->
>---> # No SCSI scanners found. If you expected something different, make
>---> sure that
>---> # you have loaded a SCSI driver for your SCSI adapter.
>--->
>---> found USB scanner (vendor=0x05cb, product=0x1483) 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.
>--->
>---> # Not checking for parallel port scanners.
>--->
>---> # Most Scanners connected to the parallel port or other proprietary
>---> ports
>---> # can't be detected by this program.
>--->
>---> # 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.
>--->
>---> >From the manpages, I found that the scanner device should be called
>---> something like /dev/scanner or /dev/usb/scanner or /dev/sg0, but
> there's ---> nothing like that. Here's the output of "ls /dev":
<snip>
>---> I also read that I should load the "sg" kernel module and "a kernel
>---> scanner module": I tried sg, nothing changed. As for the "kernel
> scanner ---> module", I don't know how such a module should be called.
>--->
>---> Knowing that Sarge may be somewhat outdated with respect to device
>---> support, I've also tried Knoppix (v5.0.1, the latest as far as I know).
>---> But I got exactly the same messages.
>--->
>---> The scanner model is: Compeye Simplex 8110U. At least that's what's
>---> written on it, I haven't been given the box nor the manuals, and never
>---> heard about a brand called Compeye.
>--->
>---> Can anyone give me some advice? (please Cc: me, I'm not subscribed)
>--->
>---> Thanks all
>---> Gerardo
Look at the kernel messages $ dmesg to see if there is any record of the
scanner there. Sometimes the scanner is observed, but it takes a bit of work
to have xsane work with it. If it's not identified, then you may need a
special driver?
Be well,
Charlie
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