Medion MD 86774 diaphragma/slide scanner: unknown to SANE, how to attach manually?

[Hans Petter Selasky]

On 01/02/14 17:13, O. Hartmann wrote:
>
> I got a simple USB slide film scanner (Medion MD 86774). This USB
> attached scanner is supposed to work in Linux with v4l, recognized as a
> camera device.
>
> I'm running 11.0-CURRENT #3 r260189: Thu Jan  2 13:20:15 CET 2014
> amd64, having installed ports graphics/sane-backends,
> graphics/xsane.
>
> Attaching the scanner to the USB bus makes the kernel giving this
> report:
>
> ugen7.6: <Salix Corp.> at usbus7
>
> Issuing the command usbconfig as shown below reveals
>
> usbconfig -u 7 -a 6 dump_device_desc
> ugen7.6: <USB Scanner 5MP Salix Corp.> at usbus7, cfg=0 md=HOST
> spd=HIGH (480Mbps) pwr=ON (500mA)
>
>    bLength = 0x0012
>    bDescriptorType = 0x0001
>    bcdUSB = 0x0200
>    bDeviceClass = 0x00ef
>    bDeviceSubClass = 0x0002
>    bDeviceProtocol = 0x0001
>    bMaxPacketSize0 = 0x0040
>    idVendor = 0x115b
>    idProduct = 0x3150
>    bcdDevice = 0x0028
>    iManufacturer = 0x0001  <Salix Corp.>
>    iProduct = 0x0002  <USB Scanner 5MP>
>    iSerialNumber = 0x0000  <no string>
>    bNumConfigurations = 0x0001
>
>
> Well, I'd like to do some experiments and I do not know where to start.
> In /usr/local/etc/sane.d/ I created a new file called "medion.conf"
> containing
>
> usb 0x115b  0x3150
>
> to "fake" a supported device, but xsane doesn't recognize the device at
> all.
>
> It may sound naiv, but can someone tell me how to use this scanner
> device as a v4l device as it is recognized in Ubuntu 13 (kernel 3.2)?
>
> Is there a "generic" way to provide essential informations to the SANE
> backend for a new device?
>
> Please CC me. I'm not subscribing the list.
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Oliver
>

Hi,

v4l devices are supported by /usr/ports/multimedia/webcamd.

--HPS