Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Probably because, AFAIK, parallel port scanners aren't yet supported?
> Ckeck/look for the sane site (www.sane.org ??). There were, last I
> checked, some work arounds being done for 'some' parallel port
> scanners. Mine was not among them. :-(
There actually is some support for some parallel port scanners. For
the Mustek, from the sane-mustek man page. As of sane-1.0.1, uploaded
soon to a Debian archive near you, Mustek 1200 ED is not listed as a
supported scanner.
The only non-SCSI scanner that has some support at this point
is the 600 II N scanner which comes with its own parallel port
adapter (i.e., it does not attach to the printer port). More
info on how to use the 600 II N can be found below in section
PARALLEL PORT SCANNERS.
and more
A parallel port scanner can be configured by listing the
port number of the adapter in the mustek.conf file. Valid
port numbers are 0x26b, 0x2ab, 0x2eb, 0x22b, 0x32b, 0x36b,
0x3ab, 0x3eb. Pick one that doesn't conflict with the
other hardware in your computer.
Note that for parallel port scanners root privileges are
required to access the I/O ports. Thus, either make fron
tends such as scanimage(1) and xscanimage(1) setuid root
(generally not recommend for saftey reasons) or, alterna
tively, access this backend through the network daemon
saned(1).
Also note that after a while of no activity, some scanners
themself (not the SANE backend) turns off their CCFL
lamps. This shutdown is not always perfect with the result
that the lamp sometimes continues to glow dimly at one
end. This doesn't appear to be dangerous since as soon as
you use the scanner again, the lamp turns back on to the
normal high brightness. However, the first image scanned
after such a shutdown may have stripes and appear to be
over-exposed. When this happens, just take another scan,
and the image will be fine.
--
Kevin Dalley
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
