sane-ibm(5)

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💅 sane-ibm(5) 💅

okay bestie, buckle up 🫶 this is the manual page for sane-ibm, the SANE backend for IBM and Ricoh SCSI flatbed scanners. Let's get into it. ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

sane-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 — not me making that up 😭. Please contact the maintainer or the sane-devel mailing list if you own such a scanner. 💌

⚠️ This backend is alpha-quality, bestie. It may have bugs and some scanners haven't been tested at all. Be careful and literally pull the plug if the scanner causes unusual noise. 💀🔌

🎀 DEVICE NAMES 🎀

This backend expects device names of the form:

special

where special is the path-name for the special device that corresponds to a SCSI scanner. The program sane-find-scanner(1) 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 🍓

  • /etc/sane.d/ibm.conf — the backend configuration file (see also description of SANE_CONFIG_DIR below).
  • /usr/lib64/sane/libsane-ibm.a — the static library implementing this backend.
  • /usr/lib64/sane/libsane-ibm.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. On *NIX systems, 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 /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 /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 ALSO 🦋

👑 AUTHOR 👑

  • mf <massifr@tiscalinet.it>
  • Maintained by Henning Meier-Geinitz <henning@meier-geinitz.de>

okay that's the whole page, bestie 🫶 this was sane-ibm(5), dated 13 Jul 2008 — mwah 💋✨

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