sane-sm3600(5) SANE Scanner Access Now Easy sane-sm3600(5)NAMEsane-sm3600 - SANE backend for Microtek scanners with M011
USB chip
DESCRIPTION
The sane-sm3600 library implements a SANE (Scanner Access
Now Easy) backend that provides access to some Microtek
scanners with the Toshiba M011 custom USB chip. This
backend should be considered alpha.
There exist a backends for Microtek scanners with SCSI
command set. Refer to sane-microtek(5) and sane-
microtek2(5) for details.
At present, the following scanners are known positively to
work with this backend:
Vendor Product id: Remark:
---------------------------------
Microtek ScanMaker 3600 all modes ok
Microtek ScanMaker 3700 reported to work
Microtek ScanMaker 3750 reported to work
If you own a Microtek scanner with the M011 chip other
than the ones listed above, it may or may not work with
SANE!
FRONTEND OPTIONS
This backend dynamically enables the options for the fron-
tend, that are supported by the scanner in dependence of
the scanning-mode and other options. Not supported options
are disabled.
The following options are supported by the
Microtek2-driver:
Color, grayscale, halftone and lineart scans.
contrast, brightness, control, gamma correction.
DEVICE NAMES
This backend does not support device names in a standard-
ized form.
CONFIGURATION
This backend does not support a configuration file right
now.
FILES
/usr/freeware/lib32/sane/libsane-sm3600.a
The static library implementing this backend.
/usr/freeware/lib32/sane/libsane-sm3600.so
The shared library implementing this backend (pre-
sent on systems that support dynamic loading).
PERMISSIONS AND INTERFACES
The backend uses libusb and it's pseudo files in
/proc/bus/usb/*. Since libusb versions 0.1.3b and 0.1.4
have incompatible binary data structures, You must be
shure not to have obsolete header files. When You mix
wrong versions, the scanner detection code will raise a
"segment violation".
These files are normally owned by root and You are respon-
sible to get access to these files, for example chown-ing
them to Yourself. If You have no right permissions, the
backend will find the device, but You'll get an I/O error.
The better way is to use automatical hotplugging. See
http://sm3600.sf.net/hotplug.html for instructions and
useful links.
ENVIRONMENT
SANE_DEBUG_SM3600
If the library was compiled with debug support
enabled, this environment variable controls the
debug level for this backend. E.g., a value of 128
requests all debug output to be printed. Smaller
levels reduce verbosity. To see error messages on
stderr set SANE_DEBUG_SM3600 to 1.
E.g. just say:
export SANE_DEBUG_SM3600=5
SEE ALSOsane-microtek2(5), http://sm3600.sourceforge.net
AUTHOR
Marian Eichholz (eichholz@computer.org)
Glenn Ramsey (glenn@componic.com)
sane-backends 1.0.12 10.02.2002 sane-sm3600(5)
