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List:       mandrake-cooker
Subject:    Re: [Cooker] scanner does not work: problem with sane or devfs?
From:       OS <101355.471 () compuserve ! com>
Date:       2002-01-21 23:20:00
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I've been reporting that my Agfa SnapScan 1212U doesn't work with the 
Mandrake rpm's for quite some time !!

I suggest that you download the latest sane binaries and build your own !! It 
worked for me !

Owen

On Monday 21 Jan 2002 5:20 pm, you wrote:
> 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?
>
> libsane1-1.0.6-2mdk
> devfsd-1.3.20-1mdk
>
> Frederik


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