I am using a new Planet CCRMA installation of Red Hat 8.0 and I am trying to get my scanner up and running, but sane is not recognizing it. I've never had the all of the bugs ironed out of this set up, but on a prior installation of a vanilla distribution of Red Hat 8.0 I did have this scanner installed, recognized by sane, and managed to scan one document, so I know that it is possible for this hardware to function under Linux.
System details are: UMAX Vista-S6E scsi scanner, TMC-36C70 Future Domain scsi controller (both of which are supported under linux/sane), Red Hat 8.0 with the 2.4.18-14 kernel, sane 1.0.8-5 backends and 1.0.8-4 frontends. After trying to fire up xsane from the start menu, I got the user agreement, then xsane started searching for scanners but returned an error message of: "no devices available". I started reading the man pages, the scanner howto and the sane web site and came up with a couple of leads to follow. In trying to track down the location of the scsi device I looked in dmesg and found: SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices Vendor: ATAPI Model: CD-RW 48X24 Rev: C.FZ Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:10.0 PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:07.2 scsi1: <fdomain> No BIOS; using scsi id 7 scsi1: <fdomain> TMC-36C70 (PCI bus) chip at 0x1030 irq 9 scsi1 : Future Domain 16-bit SCSI Driver Version 5.50 Vendor: UMAX Model: Vista-S6E Rev: V1.6 Type: Scanner ANSI SCSI revision: 02 scsi : 1 host left. parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP] PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:10.0 PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:07.2 scsi1: <fdomain> No BIOS; using scsi id 7 scsi1: <fdomain> TMC-36C70 (PCI bus) chip at 0x1030 irq 9 scsi1 : Future Domain 16-bit SCSI Driver Version 5.50 Vendor: UMAX Model: Vista-S6E Rev: V1.6 Type: Scanner ANSI SCSI revision: 02 scsi : 1 host left. ohci1394: pci_module_init failed ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 48x/48x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 None of this is crystal clear to me, but two lines stick out. The first is the "parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP,TIRSTATE,EPP]." It's a scsi scanner, not a parallel port scanner, so why the parport line? Second is the, "ohci1394: pci_module_init failed," line. I don't know if this is important or not, but might there be a necessary module that is not initializing? Checking further, I found that /dev/scanner was a link to /dev/sgb, and /dev/sgb was a link to /sg1 (not /dev/sg1). I tried changing /dev/sgb into a symlink to /dev/sg1, but xsane still pops up a dialog box with "xsane: no devices available". All the other /dev/sg* files had permissions of 660 but my original /dev/sg1 had permissions of 600, which I changed to 660. Running "sane-find scanner -v" doesn't find any scanners either. The scsi portion of its output is as follows: sane-find-scanner: searching for SCSI scanners: sane-find-scanner: checking /dev/scanner... failed to open (Invalid argument) sane-find-scanner: checking /dev/sg0... failed to open (Invalid argument) sane-find-scanner: checking /dev/sg1... failed to open (Invalid argument) sane-find-scanner: checking /dev/sg2... failed to open (Invalid argument) sane-find-scanner: checking /dev/sg3... failed to open (Invalid argument) and so on through the rest of the /dev/sg* files. So at this point I am pretty stumped as to how to get sane/xsane to recognize my scanner. Does anybody have any solutions? Any pointers to relevant documentationt that I might have missed? Thanks, Barton Need a new email address that people can remember Check out the new EudoraMail at http://www.eudoramail.com
