Hi,
Since the beginning of time I have this Umax Astra 610p scanner at home. I used it a little with W*n98 long time ago.

I looked at SANE webpage - it said the scanner is supported. But I couldn't make it to work.

Anybody with any luck with it?

I used a 610s in the past when first leaving the dark side. It would not work with the windows SCSI card that came with it, but a cheap US $19 generic SCSI card worked fine under Slackware. Just make sure the card you buy has a driver in the kernel.

john

Let me rethink that the s in 610s may stand for SCSI and the p may not be SCSI
sorry
john

The P is for parallel port. Are you using the sane-umax-pp backend and are you using the correct /dev/ID?

I uncommented sane-umax-pp in the dll.conf and commented out all the rest. "dmesg" said

parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7 [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
ppdev: user-space parallel port driver
lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).

so I put in umax_pp.conf

# model number
option astra 610
# DEVICES #
port lp0

when I try "scanimage" it returns:

[umax_pp_low] sanei_umax_pp_InitPort cannot use direct hardware access
[umax_pp_low] if not compiled with --enable-parport-directio
scanimage: no SANE devices found

Any ideas?

I use Slackware 13.1 x32 on a desktop computer. I have set the parallel port to EPP+ECP mode in BIOS.

I had similar issue with UMAX Astra 2000P on openSUSE 11.3

First, set your BIOS LPT mode to EPP and try utility "umax_pp":

> umax_pp

It should detect your scanner, make few movements and output scanner's model
If you got it try to scan using "umax_pp":

> umax_pp -s

This will scan 72dpi image and save it as out.pnm
If this worked, then go to umax_pp.conf file, enter there your model and set port to "auto", in my case it was:

option astra 2000
port auto


That's it
Now run xsane and enjoy your LPT scanner