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- Plustek-PARPRORT.txt (2004-03-28) Gerhard JΣger <gerhard@gjaeger.de>
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- Beginning with SANE-1.0.13, there's a backend called plustek_pp.
- This is for controlling Plustek parallel-port scanner and compatible
- devices. For a full listing, see plustek_pp.desc.
-
- This code formerly was available for creating the Linux kernelmodule
- pt_drv. This should no longer be necessary. You should be able to use
- the backend out of the box.
-
-
- The kernel module
- -----------------
-
- As it might be helpful to create and use the kernel-module, this way still
- exists. It's possible to create this module out of the backend sources
- in sane-backends/backend. Simply do (as root user)
-
- ./MakeModule.sh
-
- Then the module should be compiled, installed and loaded.
-
- Add the following three lines to file /etc/modules.conf
-
- alias char-major-40 pt_drv
- pre-install pt_drv modprobe -k parport
- options pt_drv lampoff=180 warmup=15 port=0x378 lOffonEnd=0 mov=0 slowIO=1
-
- See man page for sane-plustek_pp ("man sane-plustek_pp") for explanation of
- these options.
-
- Now "scanimage -L" should show something like this:
- device `plustek:/dev/pt_drv' is a Plustek 9630P flatbed scanner
-
-
- Known Problems:
- ---------------
-
- Sometimes it is necessary to change the ioctl-interface between the
- driver and the backend, in this case the version number of the communication
- protocol will be changed and newer drivers won't work with older backends
- and vice versa.
- In this case (error -9019 in the SANE debug output!!) you have to recompile SANE
- AND the driver (have a look at the installation procedure above).
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