On Tuesday 01 November 2005 01:24, Jeff Vian wrote: > On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 18:00 -0700, kevin.kempter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > wrote: > > On Tuesday 01 November 2005 00:46, Jeff Vian wrote: > > > On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 18:01 -0700, kevin.kempter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > > > > wrote: > > > > Hi List ; > > > > > > > > I bought a Plustek OpticSlim M12 sheetfeed usb scanner. > > > > If I run sane-find-scanner I see the following: > > > > found USB scanner (vendor=0x07b3, product=0x0412 [600dpi USB > > > > Scanner], chip=GT-6816?) at libusb:002:004 > > > > # Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be > > > > supported by > > > > # SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage. > > > > > > > > However if I run scanimage -L I get this: > > > > 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). > > > > > > It says to run sane-find-scanner. Did you? > > > > > > > I dont know where to go from here... > > > > > > > > Thanks in advance for any help > > > > Yes. This is what it reports: > > $ sane-find-scanner > > > > # No SCSI scanners found. If you expected something different, make > > sure that > > # you have loaded a SCSI driver for your SCSI adapter. > > # Also you need support for SCSI Generic (sg) in your operating system. > > # If using Linux, try "modprobe sg". > > > > found USB scanner (vendor=0x07b3, product=0x0412, chip=GT-6816?) at > > libusb:002:005 > > # 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. > > The scanner was found. Now you need to get it functional. > > Pay attention to (at minimum) the recommendations by the tools. Check > devices, permissions, etc. at each stage of the process. You may need > to create a sym link for /dev/scanner as well. > > I have a scanner that is NOT supported AFAIK (last checked a couple > months ago) so I have not even gotten as far as it seems you have, but > from experiences with other devices I know that something as innocuous > as permissions can trip up the best of us. Thanks for the advice. Any thoughts on which device to setup a link to since the scaner was found as libusb:002:005 ?
