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,
     mustekusb and the plustek backends. See sane-mustekusb(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  vendorid productid 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. "vendorid" and "productid" 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
          SANECONFIGDIR 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
     SANECONFIGDIR
          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  SANECONFIGDIR  to
          "/tmp/config:"     would    result    in    directories
          "tmp/config", ".", and "/etc/sane.d" being searched (in
          this order).

     SANEDEBUGMA1509
          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-mustekusb(5), sane-mustek(5), sane-mustekpp(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/.

ATRIBUTES
     See attributes(5) for descriptions of the  following  attri-
     butes:

     
       ATRIBUTE TYPE     ATRIBUTE VALUE 
    
     Availability         SUNWsane-backend
    
     Interface Stability  Uncommitted     
    

NOTES
     Source for SANE is available on http:/opensolaris.org.































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