>>> "Charles" == Charles Curley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Charles> On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 08:54:52PM -0500, Mike Fieschko
Charles> 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 &
Charles> Nope, nor in the source RPM, nor did "locate sane.ps"
Charles> turn up anything. I did find it on the web site; it's
Charles> listed as a "Programmer's Manual". After getting over my
Charles> sinking feeling, I took a quick spin through the HTML
Charles> 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
Charles> Ah, another example of excellent documentation. I found
Charles> find-scanner while scrounging in the source RPM, and ran
Charles> it there sucessfully. It says,
Charles> root@charlesc # find-scanner find-scanner: found
Charles> processor "HP C2570A 3406" at device /dev/scanner
Charles> find-scanner: found processor "HP C2570A 3406" at device
Charles> /dev/sg4 find-scanner: found processor "HP C2570A 3406"
Charles> at device /dev/sge
Charles> and /dev/scanner is set up correctly:
Charles> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Dec 3 15:42 /dev/scanner ->
Charles> /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.
Charles> I'll defer that until later, since I can't even get it to
Charles> run locally.
Have you installed the gimp? Is there a $HOME/.gimp directory? If
yes to both, is there a link in $HOME/.gimp/plugins/@xscanimage to
/usr/bin/xscanimage? I believe that you need to create the symlink
manually.
What is the content of /etc/sane.d/hp.conf?
You might want to look at
http://www.rru.com/~meo/gimp/faq-user.html#dev_scan
and
http://www.mostang.com/sane
--
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