Trying to get BW4800SP working

Colin Hogben (colin.hogben@bigfoot.com)
Wed, 13 Oct 1999 22:38:19 +0100

Hi,
I am trying to get a Black Widow 4800SP working with sane-1.00-54 under Linux
(SuSE 6.2), being led to believe that it is supported by the (alpha) artec
driver.

"sgcheck" reports:
/dev/sg0 0/0/5/0 Scanner Flatbed Scanner

and I have set /dev/scanner to point to /dev/sg0

/etc/sane.d.artec.conf contains:
/dev/scanner

If I run "scanimage" I get the helpful error message:
scanimage: sane_start: Invalid argument

"scanimage -L" reports:
device `pnm:0' is a Noname PNM file reader virtual device
device `pnm:1' is a Noname PNM file reader virtual device

but no sign of my scanner.

So I downloaded the sane-artec.5 manual page (missing from the distribution).
Setting SANE_DEBUG_ARTEC=128 yielded some more information:

[sanei_init_debug]: Setting debug level of artec to 128.
[artec] attach_one
[artec] Artec/Ultima backend version 0.3, last mod: 10/18/1998 22:45
[artec] http://www4.infi.net/~cpinkham/sane-artec-doc.html
[artec] attach: opening /dev/scanner
[artec] attach: sending INQUIRY
[artec] attach: device doesn't look like a ULTIMA scanner
[artec] sane_get_devices
scanimage: sane_start: Invalid argument
[artec] sane_exit

On the suggestion of the manual page I updated artec.conf to read:
vendor ULTIMA
model AT3
/dev/scanner

But it looks like these extra directives are not interpreted properly:

[sanei_init_debug]: Setting debug level of artec to 128.
[artec] attach_one
[artec] Artec/Ultima backend version 0.3, last mod: 10/18/1998 22:45
[artec] http://www4.infi.net/~cpinkham/sane-artec-doc.html
[artec] attach: opening vendor ULTIMA
[artec] attach: open failed (Invalid argument)
[artec] attach_one
[artec] Artec/Ultima backend version 0.3, last mod: 10/18/1998 22:45
[artec] http://www4.infi.net/~cpinkham/sane-artec-doc.html
[artec] attach: opening model AT3
[artec] attach: open failed (Invalid argument)
[artec] attach_one
[artec] Artec/Ultima backend version 0.3, last mod: 10/18/1998 22:45
[artec] http://www4.infi.net/~cpinkham/sane-artec-doc.html
[artec] attach: opening /dev/scanner
[artec] attach: sending INQUIRY
[artec] attach: device doesn't look like a ULTIMA scanner
[artec] sane_get_devices
scanimage: sane_start: Invalid argument
[artec] sane_exit

Does any one know what I should do to get the thing working?

(I had a look at the source code and found the line where it complains about
it not being an ULTIMA scanner; perhaps this needs changing to allow for the
BW4800SP's blank vendor name.)

Any help much appreciated.

-- 
Colin Hogben





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