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

[Hans Petter Selasky]

On 01/03/14 09:03, O. Hartmann wrote:
> On Thu, 02 Jan 2014 17:23:32 +0100
> Hans Petter Selasky <hps at bitfrost.no> wrote:
>
>
> The device gets recognized as /dev/video0 so far (using module
> cuse4bsd/webcamd).
>
> Trying the suggested test from SANE via issuing "scanimage -L" does not
> reveal the mutual video device as described like "v4l:/dev/video0". The
> scanner is seen on a Linux Ubuntu box as such a device, but I had no
> further chance for testing, whether the scanner works on that
> particular system.
>
> webcamd obviously recognises the scanning device as a video device. But
> how can I introduce the device to SANE or even GIMP?
>
> Are there further patches for the device driver necessary?
>

Might be you need to add some flags to compile V4L support into sane.

--HPS