Kevin Dalley wrote: > 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.
Bummer. > 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. That's cool and I read that but I haven't been able to get it to work. My parallel port is located at 0x378, which is /dev/lp1 or /dev/par1. Here's what I attempted in my /etc/sane.d/mustek.conf: /dev/par1 option linedistance-fix option lineart-fix # lineart may be faster with this option off. I have also tried /dev/lp1 and 0x378 in the place of /dev/par1. Any hints? Thanks, Trev
