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/scanner0 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
       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 SANE_CONFIG_DIR below).

       /usr/lib64/sane/libsane-ma1509.a
	      The static library implementing this backend.

       /usr/lib64/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	configura-
	      tion  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 directories are searched after the explic-
	      itly  specified  directories.  For example, setting SANE_CONFIG_DIR to "/tmp/config:" would result in directories "tmp/config", ".",
	      and "/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 homepage http://www.meier-geinitz.de/sane/ma1509-backend/.

								    13 Jul 2008 						    sane-ma1509(5)