• 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. 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
  

  /etc/sane.d/ibm.conf

  The backend configuration file (see also description of SANE_CONFIG_DIR below).

  /usr/lib/sane/libsane-ibm.a

  The static library implementing this backend.

  /usr/lib/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.  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 /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
  
  sane(7) , sane-find-scanner (1), sane-scsi (5),
  
• AUTHOR
  
  mf <massifr@tiscalinet.it>
  Maintained by Henning Meier-Geinitz <henning@meier-geinitz.de>

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