It should not be required to reboot the machine. Just restart your frontend application. Unless, you had to mess with device permissions via udev or hal (or whatever). Those sometimes require a reboot.
allan On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 4:07 PM, Steven Santos <Steven at simplycircus.com> wrote: > (first version did not include the usb connection...) > > > I am not a coder, but I hope my notes make it easier for others to get this > working.? Many thanks to > Reinhold Kainhofer for both developing this backend, and for pointing me in > the right direction for fixing my problem! > > I am now working on getting saned to work, and export this scanner to other > clients on the network.? I am specifically hoping that it will work with > older versions of SANE (CentOS 6.2 uses version 1.0.21).? If that works, I > will add those notes to this, as well as adding notes on getting this model > working with CUPS for both color and black and white printing. > > > > > HOW-TO: SANE and the Konica Minolta Magicolor 1690MF on Ubuntu > > Step 1: Ensure that you have at least version 1.0.22 of sane installed > > If you don't know what version of sane you are running, run this command > from a terminal: > >> scanuser at sane:~$? scanimage -V > > > You should see something like this as a result: > >> scanimage (sane-backends) 1.0.22; backend version 1.0.22 > > > (hint: it should already be installed on Ubuntu 11.04 and higher.? If it > reads 1.0.21, you do not have the magicolor back end, and need to upgrade to > a newer version of ubuntu). > > Step 2: Enable the Magicolor back end > > Edit the file /etc/sane.d/dll.conf by running the following command: > >> sudo gedit /etc/sane.d/dll.conf > > > Within that file, change the line that reads > >> #magicolor > > > to > >> magicolor > > > and save the file.? Note: if the magicolor line does not have a hash #, you > do not need to edit anything. > > > Step 3: Tell the Magicolor back end where to find the network scanner > > While sane will try and autodetect the scanner on the network, you will > likely need to specify the IP address of the scanner.? To do that, open a > terminal and run the command: > >> sudo gedit /etc/sane.d/magicolor.conf > > > After the line that reads > >> net autodiscovery > > > you need to add a line with the word "net" and IP address of your Magicolor > 1690MF scanner.? That line should look like this: > >> net 192.168.0.15 > > > (make sure to change the address to match that of your scanner) > Now that you have added the IP address of your scanner, save the file. > > > Step 4: Tell the Magicolor back end where to find the USB scanner > > With the 1690MF plugged into your computer via a USB cable, run the command: > > >> sane-find-scanner > > > the output of that command will look something like this: > >> ? # sane-find-scanner will now attempt to detect your scanner. If the >> ? # result is different from what you expected, first make sure your >> ? # scanner is powered up and properly connected to your computer. >> >> ? # No SCSI scanners found. If you expected something different, make sure >> that >> ? # you have loaded a kernel SCSI driver for your SCSI adapter. >> >> found USB scanner (vendor=0x132b [KONICA MINOLTA], product=0x2089 [KONICA >> MINOLTA magicolor 1690MF scan]) at libusb:001:003 >> ? # Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be >> supported by >> ? # SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage. >> >> ? # Not checking for parallel port scanners. >> >> ? # Most Scanners connected to the parallel port or other proprietary >> ports >> ? # can't be detected by this program. > > > You can ignore everything that starts with a hash tag, but the important > part is this line: > >> found USB scanner (vendor=0x132b [KONICA MINOLTA], product=0x2089 [KONICA >> MINOLTA magicolor 1690MF scan]) at libusb:001:003 > > > We need to add those two values to the Magicolor back end.? to do that, fire > up gedit as root: > >> sudo gedit /etc/sane.d/magicolor.conf > > > Find the line that reads: > >> usb > > > and after it? add a line with the word "usb" followed by the vendor number > and the product number.? That line should look like this: > >> usb 0x132b 0x2089 > > > After you have added that line, save the file. > > Step 5: Reboot the machine > > > Next, reboot the machine (devs, can we get sane to reread the changes > without restarting the box?? If so, what is the command?) > > > Step 6: Test your new scanner > > > After the reboot, open a terminal window and run the command > >> xsane > > > You should now have a working interface to your? Konica Minolta Magicolor > 1690MF. > > > --- > Steven Santos > Director > Simply Circus, Inc. > 86 Los Angeles Street > Newton, MA 02458 > > P: 617-527-0667 > F: 617-934-1870 > E: Steven at SimplyCircus.com > > -- > sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel > Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" > ? ? ? ? ? ? to sane-devel-request at lists.alioth.debian.org -- "The truth is an offense, but not a sin"
