# Re: More on Mustek 8000SP adventures...

David Mosberger-Tang (davidm@azstarnet.com)
Wed, 23 Jul 1997 14:57:44 -0700

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>>>>> On Wed, 23 Jul 1997 14:35:16 -0400 (EDT), Gregory Trubetskoy <grisha@ispol
.com> said:

Gregory> I am not stupid, I do read man pages, I know what RTFM is,
Gregory> all this - and yet, I did exactly the same thing that the
Gregory> man page describes below, only I figured it out myself. Had
Gregory> this been in the README file, it'd save me about 3 hours. (
Gregory> The README doesn't say "go read scsi-sane(5) man page. )

I updated the info in the README a bit. I appended the updated
section below.

Gregory> There need to be better installation, and more importantly
Gregory> *testing* instructions. ( E.g. run this command, then try
Gregory> to open the resulting file with xv or something )

Sounds like a good idea. I probably won't have time for this anytime
soon, but if somebody wants to put together some instructions, I'd be
glad to incorporate them. Both a SANE tutorial and a SANE backend
programming tutorial would probably be useful as well. I have written
a SANE article for Linux Journal, but it just barely scratches the
surface and says hardly anything about SANE programming.

--david

    --
    * Installation and Configuration

    Once the build has finished, install SANE with "make install".  By
    default, this will place the SANE libraries in /usr/local/lib/, the
    configuration files in /usr/local/etc/sane.d/, and the manual pages in
    /usr/local/man/.  The location of these directories can be overridden
    with configure options; see "configure --help" for details.

    For information on configuring and trouble-shooting the various SANE
    components, please refer to the manual pages listed below:

           Regarding:	  Read:
           -----------------  ------------------------------------------
           scanimage	  scanimage(1)
           xscanimage	  xscanimage(1)
           saned		  saned(1)
           xcam		  no man-page---see frontend/xcam.README

           Dynamic loading	  sane-dll(5)
           Mustek scanners	  sane-mustek(5) and sane-scsi(5)
           UMAX scanners	  sane-umax(5) and sane-scsi(5)
           HP scanners	  sane-hp(5) and sane-scsi(5)
           Networking	  sane-net(5) and saned(1)
           PINT scanners	  sane-pint(5)
           QuickCam		  sane-qcam(5)

    Please note that the default configuration uses sane-dll as the
    top-level backend.  Hence it is probably a good idea to start with
    reading sane-dll(5).  The top-level backend is determined by the
    libsane.* symlinks in /usr/local/lib/.

    If you encounter any problems with getting your device(s) recognized,
    try setting the various environment variables that are there to assist
    in debugging such problems.  The environment variables are documented
    in the relevant manual pages.  For example, to get the maximum amount
    of debug information when testing a Mustek scanner, set environment
    variables SANE_DEBUG_DLL, SANE_DEBUG_MUSTEK, and SANE_DEBUG_SANEI_SCSI
    to 128 and then invoke scanimage or whatever program you're trying to
    debug.  For a Mustek scanner at /dev/scanner, you might want to invoke
    scanimage as follows:

    	scanimage -d mustek:/dev/scanner -h

    If this works, you could try to acquire an image with:

    	scanimage -d mustek:/dev/scanner >t.pnm

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