Re: OT - Please Help with sane / scanner

[Travis Fraser]

On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 19:11 -0700, [e-mail]
wrote:
> On Tuesday 01 November 2005 01:24, Jeff Vian wrote:
> > On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 18:00 -0700, [e-mail]
> >
> > wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 01 November 2005 00:46, Jeff Vian wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 18:01 -0700, [e-mail]
> > > >
> > > > 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.

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> Any thoughts on which device to setup a link to since the scaner was found as 
> libusb:002:005 ?

http://www.sane-project.org/docs.html
http://www.xs4all.nl/~ljm/SANE-faq.html

You do _not_ set up a link to /dev/scanner. AFAIK that was for 2.4
kernels and the kernel scanner driver. In /etc/sane.d/dll.conf you
uncomment the backend for your scanner.