sane-ma1509(5) 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 sane-ma1509 backend homepage
http://www.meier-geinitz.de/sane/ma1509-backend/.
Other Mustek USB scanners are supported by the sane-mustek_usb(5),
sane-gt68xx(5) and sane-plustek(5) backends.
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/scan-
ner0 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 hexadeci-
mal 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_CON-
FIG_DIR below).
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/sane/libsane-ma1509.a
The static library implementing this backend.
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/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. On *NIX systems, the direc-
tories are separated by a colon (`:'), under OS/2, they are sepa-
rated 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 en-
vironment 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 home-
page http://www.meier-geinitz.de/sane/ma1509-backend/.
13 Jul 2008 sane-ma1509(5)
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