sane-avision(n) sane-avision(n) NAME sane-avision - SANE backend for Avision (and OEM HP, Minolta) flatbed scanners ABOUT THIS FILE This file only is a short descripton of the avision-back- end for sane! DESCRIPTION The sane-avision library implements a SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy) backend that provides access to Avision flatbed scanners and the Avision OEM scanners labelled with HP and Minolta. CONFIGURATION The configuration file for this backend resides in /etc/sane.d/avision.conf. Its contents is a list of device names that correspond to Avision and Avision compatible scanners. Empty lines and lines starting with a hash mark (#) are ignored. A sample configuration file is shown below: I suggest you hold one hand on the power-button of the scanner while you try the first scans! #scsi Vendor Model Type Bus Channel ID LUN scsi AVISION /dev/scanner # this is a comment # option force-a4 option allow-usb option disable-gamma-table - force-a4: Forces the backend to overwrite the scanable area returned by the scanner. This might be needed for the AV 630 which returns no area - or newer scanners which retuns the area in a unkown format our backend doesn't recongize yet. - allow-usb: Tells the backend to use USB scanner - which do not work correctly yet. - disable-gamma-table: Disables the usage of the scanner's gamma-table. You might try this if your scans hang, or only produces random garbage. DEVICE NAMES This backend expects device names of the form: special Where special is the path-name for the special device that corresponds to a SCSI scanner. The special device name must be a generic SCSI device or a symlink to such a device. The program sane-find-scanner helps to find out the correct device. Under Linux, such a device name could be /dev/sga or /dev/sge, for example. See sane-scsi(i) for details. FILES /etc/sane.d/avision.conf The backend configuration file (see also descrip- tion of SANE_CONFIG_DIR below). /usr/lib/sane/libsane-avision.a The static library implementing this backend. /usr/lib/sane/libsane-avision.so The shared library implementing this backend (pre- sent 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 sepa- rator character, then the default directories are searched after the explicitly specified directo- ries. 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_AVISION 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. Example: export SANE_DEBUG_AVISION=4 SEE ALSO sane(e), sane-scsi(i) http://drocklinux.dyndns.org/rene/avision/index.html AUTHOR Ren Rebe, Meino Christian Cramer and Martin Jelnek 10 Dec 2001 sane-avision(n)