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List:       mandrake-cooker
Subject:    Re: [Cooker] scanner does not work: problem with sane or devfs?
From:       Yves Duret <yduret () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2002-01-22 3:17:36
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Frederik Himpe <fhimpe@users.sourceforge.net> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> I just configured my SCSI adapter (old AVA1505 ISA card), to use my
> scanner. Now sane-find-scanner does find it:
> 
> [root@Jupiter dev]# sane-find-scanner
> # Note that sane-find-scanner will find any scanner that is connected
> # to a SCSI bus and some scanners that are connected to the Universal
> # Serial Bus (USB) depending on your OS. It will even find scanners
> # that are not supported at all by SANE. It won't find a scanner that
> # is connected to a parallel or proprietary port.
> 
> sane-find-scanner: found SCSI scanner "AGFA SNAPSCAN 1236 1.20" at
> device /dev/sg1
> [root@Jupiter dev]# ll /dev/sg1
> lr-xr-xr-x    1 root     root           36 Jan 21 18:01 /dev/sg1 ->
> scsi/host1/bus0/target2/lun0/generic
> 
> But when running scanimage or xsane, it says it can't find a scanner,
> and I should make sure the scanner is detected by sane-find-scanner.
> Could this be a devfs problem, or something wrong with sane? Are there
> others who can use their scanner?

what is in your /etc/sane.d/snapscan.conf ?
edit it and put /dev/sg1 and remove all the other line beginning bu /dev/xxxx
-- 
Yves Duret
yduret@mandrakesoft.com
piouk toujours et meme apres !


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