Hi, On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 09:44:30AM +0200, Daniel Mang wrote: > I read the email exchange regarding LiDE 25 in the july 2005 sane-devel > mailinglist archives but could not understand if the problem was really > resolved at that time. I also read the september and october email exchanges > on sane-devel regarding LiDE 25 and tried my best to understand them but I > have a hard time doing so. It seems I need a patch for plustek? And that I > can get this patch via CVS, whatever that is? It was obvious to me from the > beginning that the most up-to-date software is on the CVS page, but since I > am totally unfamiliar with CVS I stayed away from it.
On the CVS page there is also a link to documentation about CVS. And you can download files directly via the web (link "Browse CVS Repository(cvsweb)"). Anyway, you can also download a complete snapshot of the development version of sane-backends instead. This snapshot is generated automatically every day. The link is on the download page. > I use SuSE 9.3 > YaST recognizes the scanner but it is not on the list of scanners, so setting > up plustek via YaST doesn't work. Tools like YaST that just hide operations are not a big help for new scanners most of the time. > I gathered from the mailing list archives that LiDE 25 support was added only > recently, so I first tried getting newer SANE versions via YaST. SuSE (and most other distributions) only provide new packages of SANE when there is a new stable version. > But when I am all done, whether I do: > > modprobe scanner > > or: > > modprobe scanner vendor=0x04a9 product=0x2220 > > the result is always: > > FATAL: Module scanner not found. That's correct. The kernel scanner module hasn't existes anymore since quite some time. > found USB scanner (vendor=0x04a9 [Canon], product=0x2220 [CanoScan], > chip=LM9832/3) at libusb:002:002 Looks fine. > scanimage -L > > I get: > > No scanners were identified. > I have edited the plustek configuration file (in my case it > is /etc/sane.d/plustek.conf), adding the lines: If you installed from source code and didn't change the default directories, the file is in /usr/local/etc/sane.d, not in /etc. > [plustek] Plustek backend V0.50-4, part of sane-backends 1.0.16 Seems to be current. > [plustek] sanei_access_lock failed: 11 > I guess the relevant lines here are: > > [plustek] usbDev_open(auto,0x04A9-0x2220) - 0x80729b0 > [plustek] sanei_access_lock failed: 11 > [plustek] open failed: -1 Yes. > (or did miss something else?) No. > But what is sanei_access_lock and why does it fail? Read the archive of this list :-) Either make sure that you can write to the lock directory or just disable locking: ./configure --disable-locking Bye, Henning
