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Configuration of Medion/Lifetec/Tevion/Cytron MD/LT 9385

On my Hoary system, the scanner was detected as Mustek Bearpaw 1200 CU, which was wrong. You'll have to override the detection using the gt68xx configuration file. Edit /etc/sane.d/gt68xx.conf:

gksudo gedit /etc/sane.d/gt68xx.conf

Then uncomment the following section:

# Medion/Lifetec/Tevion/Cytron MD/LT 9385:
override "artec-ultima-2000"
vendor "Medion"
model "MD/LT 9385"

Now your scanner will be correctly detected. You can test this using the sane-find-scanner tool:

$ sane-find-scanner

  # No SCSI scanners found. If you expected something different, make sure that
  # you have loaded a SCSI driver for your SCSI adapter.
  # Also you need support for SCSI Generic (sg) in your operating system.
  # If using Linux, try "modprobe sg".

found USB scanner (vendor=0x05d8, product=0x4002, chip=GT-6801) at libusb:001:003
  # Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be supported by
  # SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage.

  # Not checking for parallel port scanners.

  # Most Scanners connected to the parallel port or other proprietary ports
  # can't be detected by this program.

  # You may want to run this program as root to find all devices. Once you
  # found the scanner devices, be sure to adjust access permissions as
  # necessary.

So, the USB scanner device is detected, but more interesting is the device identification which can be verified with scanimage:

$ scanimage -L
device `gt68xx:libusb:001:003' is a Medion MD/LT 9385 flatbed scanner

Firmware

For the scanner to work, you need the right firmware file. In this case, you need the gt680xfw.usb firmware file. It's not there by default. And here comes the tricky part! I had to try with different firmware files I found. All the firmwares with a size of 7154 bytes didn't work! Finally I got it working by installing the drivers from the original Driver CD on a Windows system, and then copying the gt68xfw.usb file which is installed in your Windows directory (easiest is to search for it) to my Ubuntu Hoary system. This file had a size of 8192 bytes and DID work. Some people asked me for the firmware, as they didn't find a working one. You can download it [[1]] Using the other firmwares, the head of the scanner didn't move, resulting in a strange page with only some lines on it. Using wrong firmware will result in an error message when using with sane/xsane, or it will scan but the results may not be what you expect. Copy a working firmware to:

$ sudo cp gt680xfw.usb /usr/share/sane/gt68xx
$ ls -l /usr/share/sane/gt68xx/
total 8
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 8192 May  7 17:54 gt680xfw.usb

Good luck!

Comments

For all those who have no luck with the bigger version of the firmware file, here find the smaller file attached. ([[https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lifetec9385Config?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=gt680xfw.usb-small-version%5D%5D%29 That did work for me. (Kindly provided by my brother ;-) )

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