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List:       mandrake-cooker
Subject:    Re: [Cooker] scanner does not work: problem with sane or devfs?
From:       Frederik Himpe <fhimpe () users ! sourceforge ! net>
Date:       2002-01-22 11:59:12
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On Tue, 2002-01-22 at 04:17, Yves Duret wrote:
> 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

Thank you, now it works perfectly. In /etc/sane.d/snapscan.conf was
/dev/sga, I changed it to /dev/sg1. I was a bit surprised to read that
there was a configuration file to edit, in Mandrake 8 it suffised to
configure the SCSI-card and install sane.

Frederik


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