sane-ibm(5) SANE Scanner Access Now Easy sane-ibm(5)NAMEsane-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 either the path-name for the special
device that corresponds to a SCSI scanner. The program
sane-find-scanner 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
/usr/freeware/etc/sane.d/ibm.conf
The backend configuration file (see also descrip-
tion of SANE_CONFIG_DIR below).
/usr/freeware/lib32/sane/libsane-ibm.a
The static library implementing this backend.
/usr/freeware/lib32/sane/libsane-ibm.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 /usr/freeware/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 "/usr/free-
ware/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 ALSOsane(7), sane-find-scanner(1), sane-scsi(5),
AUTHOR
mf <massifr@tiscalinet.it>
Maintained by Henning Meier-Geinitz <henning@meier-
geinitz.de>
sane-backends 1.0.12 15 Apr 2003 sane-ibm(5)
