NAME¶
sane-ma1509 - SANE backend for Mustek BearPaw 1200F USB scanner
DESCRIPTION¶
The
sane-ma1509 library implements a SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy)
backend that provides access to the Mustek BearPaw 1200F USB flatbed scanner.
This scanner is based on the MA-1509 chipset. Other scanners that use this
chip (if they exist) may also work.
This backend is ALPHA software. Be careful and remove the power plug immediately
if your hear unusual noises.
More details can be found on the ma1509 backend homepage
http://www.meier-geinitz.de/sane/ma1509-backend/.
Other Mustek USB scanners are supported by the gt68xx, mustek_usb and the
plustek backends. See
sane-mustek_usb(5),
sane-gt68xx(5) and
sane-plustek(5) for details.
This backend can only work with scanners that are already detected by the
operating system. See
sane-usb(5) for details.
If you own a scanner other than the Mustek BearPaw 1200F that works with this
backend, please let me know this by sending the scanner's exact model name and
the USB vendor and device ids (e.g. from
/proc/bus/usb/devices or
syslog) to me.
DEVICE NAMES¶
This backend expects device names of the form:
special
Where
special is a path-name for the special device that corresponds to a
USB scanner. With Linux, such a device name could be
/dev/usb/scanner0
or
libusb:001:002, for example.
CONFIGURATION¶
The contents of the
ma1509.conf file is a list of options and device
names that correspond to Mustek BearPaw 1200F scanners. Empty lines and lines
starting with a hash mark (#) are ignored.
Instead of using the device name, the scanner can be autodetected by
usb
vendor_id product_id statements which are already included into
ma1509.conf. This is only supported with Linux 2.4.8 and higher and all
systems that support libsub. "vendor_id" and "product_id"
are hexadecimal numbers that identify the scanner. If this doesn't work, a
device name must be placed in
ma1509.conf as described above.
To set the time the lamp needs for warm-up, use
option warmup-time
in
ma1509.conf. The time is given in seconds after the option. The
default is 30 seconds.
FILES¶
- /etc/sane.d/ma1509.conf
- The backend configuration file (see also description of
SANE_CONFIG_DIR below).
- /usr/lib/arch_triplet/sane/libsane-ma1509.a
- The static library implementing this backend.
- /usr/lib/arch_triplet/sane/libsane-ma1509.so
- The shared library implementing this backend (present on systems that
support dynamic loading).
ENVIRONMENT¶
- SANE_CONFIG_DIR
- This environment variable specifies the list of directories that may
contain the configuration file. Under UNIX, the directories are separated
by a colon (`:'), under OS/2, they are separated by a semi-colon (`;'). If
this variable is not set, the configuration file is searched in two
default directories: first, the current working directory (".")
and then in /etc/sane.d. If the value of the environment variable ends
with the directory separator character, then the default directories are
searched after the explicitly specified directories. For example, setting
SANE_CONFIG_DIR to "/tmp/config:" would result in
directories "tmp/config", ".", and
"/etc/sane.d" being searched (in this order).
- SANE_DEBUG_MA1509
- If the library was compiled with debug support enabled, this environment
variable controls the debug level for this backend. Higher debug levels
increase the verbosity of the output.
SEE ALSO¶
sane(7),
sane-usb(5),
sane-gt68xx(5),
sane-plustek(5),
sane-mustek_usb(5),
sane-mustek(5),
sane-mustek_pp(5),
http://www.meier-geinitz.de/sane/ma1509-backend/
AUTHOR¶
Henning Meier-Geinitz <henning@meier-geinitz.de>
BUGS¶
Resolutions higher than 600 dpi don't work
Transparency adapter and automatic document feeder is not supported yet
No support for "high-speed" mode (jpeg)
More detailed bug information is available at the MA-1509 backend homepage
http://www.meier-geinitz.de/sane/ma1509-backend/.