SANE Scanner Access Now Easy sane-ibm(5)
NAME
sane-ibm - SANE backend for IBM and Ricoh SCSI flatbed
scanners
DESCRIPTION
The sane-ibm library implements a SANE (Scanner Access Now
Easy) backend that provides access to the IBM 2456 and the
Ricoh IS-410, IS-420, and IS-430 flatbed scanners. Support
for the IS-410 and IS-430 is untested. Please contact the
maintainer or the sane-devel mailing list if you own such a
scanner.
This backend is alpha-quality. It may have bugs and some
scanners haven't been tested at all. Be careful and pull the
plug if the scanner causes unusual noise.
DEVICE NAMES
This backend expects device names of the form:
special
Where special is either the path-name for the special device
that corresponds to a SCSI scanner. The program sane-find-
scanner helps to find out the correct device. Under Linux,
such a device name could be /dev/sg0 or /dev/sga, for exam-
ple. See sane-scsi(5) for details.
CONFIGURATION
The contents of the ibm.conf file is a list of device names
that correspond to SCSI scanners. Empty lines and lines
starting with a hash mark (#) are ignored. See sane-scsi(5)
on details of what constitutes a valid device name.
FILES
/etc/sane.d/ibm.conf
The backend configuration file (see also description of
SANE_CONFIG_DIR below).
/usr/lib/sane/libsane-ibm.a
The static library implementing this backend.
/usr/lib/sane/libsane-ibm.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 direc-
tories that may contain the configuration file. Under
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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 direc-
tories 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_IBM
If the library was compiled with debug support enabled,
this environment variable controls the debug level for
this backend. Higher debug levels increase the verbos-
ity of the output.
SEE ALSO
sane(7), sane-find-scanner(1), sane-scsi(5),
AUTHOR
mf
Maintained by Henning Meier-Geinitz geinitz.de>
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attri-
butes:
_________________________________________________________
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
|____________________|____________________________________|_
| Availability | image/scanner/xsane/sane-backends|
|____________________|____________________________________|_
| Interface Stability| Uncommitted |
|____________________|___________________________________|
NOTES
Source for SANE is available on http://opensolaris.org.
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