pp scanner

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Di, den 20.04.2004 schrieb Florian Idelberger um 14:19:

> Hi!
> I'd like to know how to get my pp scanner to work.
> I know the appropriate backend (plustek_pp) and that I have to make sure
> parport is loaded. Just when I sue to root I can't run lsmod o.s.
> probably it's not in my path, but why?

Read "man su" to understand that you have entered a shell and no login
shell. Use "su -" or "su -l" instead and you will get proper environment
set.

> This is what I have added to modules.conf:
> alias char-major-40 pt_drv
> pre-install pt_drv modprobe -k parport
> options  pt_drv  lampoff=180  warmup=15  port=0x378  lOffonEnd=0  mov=0
> slowIO=0 forceMode=0

Check too the settings in /etc/sane.d/plustek.conf.

> This is the output of the kernel:
> Apr 20 14:10:40 localhost modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module
> char-major-81

USB probing, normal, uncritical.

> Apr 20 14:10:40 localhost last message repeated 3 times
> Apr 20 14:11:55 localhost kernel: ppdev: user-space parallel port
> driver[root at localhost etc]# 
> 
> Any ideas, anyone? Many thanks in advance, Florian

Alexander


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