sane-ibm(5) SANE Scanner Access Now Easy sane-ibm(5)
NAME
sane-ibm - SANE backend for IBM and Ricoh SCSI flatbed scanners
DESCRIPTION
The sane-ibm library implements a SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy) backend
that provides access to the IBM 2456 and the Ricoh IS-410, IS-420, and
IS-430 flatbed scanners. Support for the IS-410 and IS-430 is untested.
Please contact the maintainer or the sane-devel mailing list if you own
such a scanner.
This backend is alpha-quality. It may have bugs and some scanners haven't
been tested at all. Be careful and pull the plug if the scanner causes
unusual noise.
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 program sane-find-scanner(1) helps to find out the
correct device. Under Linux, such a device name could be /dev/sg0 or
/dev/sga, for example. See sane-scsi(5) for details.
CONFIGURATION
The contents of the ibm.conf file is a list of device names that
correspond to SCSI scanners. Empty lines and lines starting with a hash
mark (#) are ignored. See sane-scsi(5) on details of what constitutes a
valid device name.
FILES
/opt/local/etc/sane.d/ibm.conf
The backend configuration file (see also description of
SANE_CONFIG_DIR below).
/opt/local/lib/sane/libsane-ibm.a
The static library implementing this backend.
/opt/local/lib/sane/libsane-ibm.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
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
/opt/local/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
/opt/local/etc/sane.d being searched (in this order).
SANE_DEBUG_IBM
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.
SEE ALSO
sane(7), sane-find-scanner(1), sane-scsi(5),
AUTHOR
mf <massifr@tiscalinet.it>
Maintained by Henning Meier-Geinitz <henning@meier-geinitz.de>
13 Jul 2008 sane-ibm(5)
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