# Re: Snapscan driver and acer scanner

From: John Craig (jcraig@agen.ufl.edu)
Date: Wed Jan 31 2001 - 11:28:28 PST

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  Hi,

  In my experience, if Xsane is installed properly, it should see the same devices
  that scanimage -L sees, for example, snapscan:/dev/sgx, or snapscan:/dev/scanner
  if you created it as a link to your scanner device. Try xscanimage and see if
  scanning works with it. On RH7 it should be installed as a gimp plugin, or may
  work from the command line. Also, you may need to enable debugging by setting
  the environment variable SANE_DEBUG_SNAPSCAN=128 to see what's going on. Other
  issues that people run into are ownership and file permissions, etc.

  John

  Steve Cooper wrote:

  > John.
  >
  > Thank you for your help. That patch has got me further along on my quest.
  > Now when I try the "scanimage -L" command , I get the device to respond back.
  > But when I try to run the xsane it still says it cannot find the device. Any
  > further input would be appreciated.
  >
  > Steve Cooper
  >
  > John Craig wrote:
  >
  > > Hi,
  > >
  > > I have been using an Acer scanner with the Snapscan driver. You will need
  > > to patch the Sane source code with the snapscan drivers found at
  > > http://download.sourceforge.net/snapscan/snapscan-01112000.tar.gz
  > > I know this works with sane-1.0.3 (which should have come with RH 7.0).
  > > Furthermore, you might need to look at the snapscan.h file in the
  > > sane-1.0.3/backends directory to make sure your scanner is being recognized
  > > as the right type. Do cat /proc/scsi/scsi and look at the way the scanner
  > > type is reported, then look at line 102 in snapscan.h and make sure it is
  > > being recognized as an Acer 300f. If so, compile and install.
  > >
  > > Good luck!
  > >
  > > John Craig
  > >
  > > Steve Cooper wrote:
  > >
  > > > >From the past post on this board I have seen the interest in a acer
  > > > driver for sane. I have a acer 300f scsi scanner running on a Adaptec
  > > > 1542 card. The os is rh 7.0 I have compiled the latest sane 1.0.4. I
  > > > have successfully modproped the scsi bus and can see my devices, I have
  > > > also used the find-scanner utility to find the scanner. I have not been
  > > > able to get the snapscan module to work. From the search of this data
  > > > message archive it seems like I am not the only one. I am not a coder
  > > > by any means, but what ever help I could get would be great.
  > > >
  > > > This system is supposed to be used as a demo box at a Linux Expo. I am
  > > > also running, I don't know if it makes a difference, XFree86 4.0.2, KDE
  > > > 1.1.2 on triple heads.
  > > >
  > > > Thank You,
  > > > Steve Cooper
  > > >
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