SANE Scanner Access Now Easy sane-ma1509(5)
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 exam-
ple.
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 auto-
detected 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
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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/sane/libsane-ma1509.a
The static library implementing this backend.
/usr/lib/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 direc-
tories 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 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_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 verbos-
ity 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
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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/.
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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