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# sane-ma1509.5

    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  ma1509  backend  homepage
           http://www.meier-geinitz.de/sane/ma1509-backend/.

           Other Mustek USB scanners are supported by the gt68xx,  mustek_usb  and
           the  plustek backends. See sane-mustek_usb(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/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 hex-
           adecimal numbers that identfy 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

           /usr/local/etc/sane.d/ma1509.conf
                  The   backend   configuration  file  (see  also  description  of
                  SANE_CONFIG_DIR below).

           /usr/local/lib/sane/libsane-ma1509.a
                  The static library implementing this backend.

           /usr/local/lib/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.  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 config-
                  uration  file is searched in two default directories: first, the
                  current    working    directory    (".")     and     then     in
                  /usr/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 directo-
                  ries.  For example, setting  SANE_CONFIG_DIR  to  "/tmp/config:"
                  would    result    in   directories   "tmp/config",   ".",   and
                  "/usr/local/etc/sane.d" being searched (in this order).

           SANE_DEBUG_MA1509
                  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-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/.

    sane-backends 1.0.12-cvs          24 Feb 2003                   sane-ma1509(5)