On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 08:54:52PM -0500, Mike Fieschko wrote:
-> >>> "Charles" == Charles Curley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
->
-> Charles> I'm trying to run SANE on a brand new 6.1 installation. I
-> Charles> can't find any instructions on what to do except the
->
-> [snip]
->
-> There's nothing in /usr/doc/sane-[version-number]? No sane.ps there?
-> If there is a sane.ps, try
->
-> $ gv sane.ps &
Nope, nor in the source RPM, nor did "locate sane.ps" turn up anything. I
did find it on the web site; it's listed as a "Programmer's Manual". After
getting over my sinking feeling, I took a quick spin through the HTML
version and did not see anything that looked useful.
->
-> Charles> When I run "scanimage --list-devices -v" as root, I get a
-> Charles> core dump. When I run it as a user, nothing appears to
-> Charles> happen.
->
-> Try
->
-> $ find-scanner
Ah, another example of excellent documentation. I found find-scanner while
scrounging in the source RPM, and ran it there sucessfully. It says,
root@charlesc # find-scanner
find-scanner: found processor "HP C2570A 3406" at device /dev/scanner
find-scanner: found processor "HP C2570A 3406" at device /dev/sg4
find-scanner: found processor "HP C2570A 3406" at device /dev/sge
and /dev/scanner is set up correctly:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Dec 3 15:42 /dev/scanner -> /dev/sg4
->
-> Charles> root@charlesc # cat /proc/scsi/scsi Attached devices:
-> Charles> ....
->
-> Charles> Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 04 Lun: 00 Vendor: HP Model:
-> Charles> C1537A Rev: L708 Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI
-> Charles> revision: 02
->
->
-> Charles> First question, how do I map that to a device?
->
-> This was a question I had when I set up the Gimp to use sane. My
-> scanner showed up on /dev/sga, information 'find-scanner' supplied.
-> /dev/scanner is a symlink to /dev/sga. I don't remember if I did the
-> symlink or whether running a program did it.
->
-> Charles> Second, do I need to launch the sane daemon or do
-> Charles> anything else?
->
-> See man saned or sane.ps. I believe the sane daemon is if you want to
-> network the scanner. There are some files in /etc/sane.d/ which have
-> to be edited, such as net.conf and (for me) umax.conf.
I'll defer that until later, since I can't even get it to run locally.
->
-> Charles> Third, is this the sort of question I can address to
-> Charles> Installation Support, and if so will they answer it?
->
-> Don't know.
->
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