ffi Posted January 3, 2007 Report Share Posted January 3, 2007 (edited) I never really use my scanner much and mcc says it is unsupported, so when I need to scan I boot into windows and then back into linux to print (my printer doesn't work in windows, the driver is really crappy and slows down windows too much) but googling today I quickly found it is supported through sane, I can see even see the correct sane backends installed, however I don't know how to enable them.... I have a very old Lifetek LT 9350 # sane-find-scanner -pv # 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. # No USB scanners found. If you expected something different, make sure that # you have loaded a kernel driver for your USB host controller and have setup # the USB system correctly. See man sane-usb for details. found possible Mustek parallel port scanner at "parport0" # Your Mustek parallel port scanner was detected. It may or # may not be supported by SANE. Please read the sane-mustek_pp # man-page for setup instructions. # Most Scanners connected to the parallel port or other proprietary ports # can't be detected by this program. I uncommented and changed the port in /etc/sane.d/mustek_pp.conf scanner LT9350 parport0 cis1200 option top_adjust 0 option bw 127 One of the internet pages with the manual I followed: http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man5/sane-mustek_pp.5.html Edited January 4, 2007 by ffi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted January 3, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 3, 2007 Okay I uncomented the line mustek_pp in /etc/sane.d/dll.conf and now in mcc it says I have a Mustek 1200 CP flatbed available (which I guess is correct) but I still don't know how to scan and xsane says there is no device available... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted January 3, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 3, 2007 in mcc is set the scanner to available on this machine and after restarting it is available but only for root, not user accounts, so how can I set it up so users can scan? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted January 3, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 3, 2007 Okay I changed the permission of /dev/parport0 to so everyone can read and write, is this smart to do? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted January 3, 2007 Report Share Posted January 3, 2007 Is there any "scanner" usergroup in your system after installing sane ? If it is, then add yourself to the group, and then logout and back in again. Does it work now? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted January 3, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 3, 2007 Is there any "scanner" usergroup in your system after installing sane ?If it is, then add yourself to the group, and then logout and back in again. Does it work now? I had already created a group scanner myself and added myself but it didn't work Logging in, logging out did it Thanks Incidently there are many more scanners supported by mandriva's version of sane yet, mcc says there is no support Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted January 4, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 4, 2007 Ay, everytime I reboot the permissions for /dev/parport0 are reset so only root has access :sad: How do I fix this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted January 4, 2007 Report Share Posted January 4, 2007 You could reset the permissions for /dev/parport0 by adding the appropriate line to the bottom of /etc/rc.local file and get it to do it for you automatically. The command will be the same as what you normally type at the prompt yourself manually, however you're resetting the permissions too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted January 4, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 4, 2007 I am afraid I don't know how to to that with chmod I only use the gui :sad: How do I change the group from root to scanner ? eg user: root can read&write group: scanner can read and write other: forbidden? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mhn Posted January 4, 2007 Report Share Posted January 4, 2007 chown root:scanner chmod 660 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted January 4, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 4, 2007 Thanks I forgot about chown. For some reason the scanner now takes ages to be found (> 2 min), yesterday xsane and kooka just popped up and i was ready to go Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted January 4, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 4, 2007 Googling in the meantime I found I could create a udev rule for the not work around solution but the chown command in /etc/rc.local also works and is a lot easier to set up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted January 4, 2007 Report Share Posted January 4, 2007 Is it a parallel port scanner? (haven't seen one of the kind since ages...). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted January 4, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 4, 2007 Is it a parallel port scanner? (haven't seen one of the kind since ages...). Yes, it's very very old* :) but still does the job. (* in fact it is so old that I almost felt ashamed a few years ago asking Lifetec, the manufacturer for support, which I got by email only 10 minutes after asking at 17:35, instead of just buying a new one ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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