[lug] Scanner issue (Visioneer Strobe XP 100)

[Maxwell Spangler]

Do you have /dev/usb/scanner (or similar?

On Tue, 2010-07-27 at 10:53 -0600, Davide Del Vento wrote:
> I'm trying to get this scanner working.
> 
> It should, according to the sane website:
> http://www.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html#Z-VISIONEER if I have the
> plustek backend installed, which I have, but maybe this information is
> incorrect. In fact (see below), it looks like this vendor is not in
> the list of the ones the backend actually expects. And if I force it
> on the conf file, it doesn't work. Any help would be greatly
> appreciated (including suggestion to post on the appropriate sane
> mailing list).
> Thanks,
> Dav
> 
> Here is what I get (I removed the non-scanner relevant info and
> shortened the output, hope it doesn't wrap too badly):
> 
> $ lsusb
> Bus 005 Device 008: ID 04a7:0427 Visioneer
> 
> $ sane-find-scanner
> found USB scanner (vendor=0x04a7 [Visioneer Inc.], product=0x0427
> [Strobe XP 100], chip=LM9832/3) at libusb:005:008
> 
> $ scanimage -L # I get exactly same result with sudo scanimage -L
> No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different,
> check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by the
> sane-find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please read the documentation
> which came with this software (README, FAQ, manpages).
> 


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