Barton Bosch schrieb: > 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.
[...] > scsi1 : Future Domain 16-bit SCSI Driver Version 5.50 > Vendor: UMAX Model: Vista-S6E Rev: V1.6 > Type: Scanner ANSI SCSI revision: 02 the SCSI system detects the scanner. > scsi : 1 host left. > parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP] this looks indeed a bit strange, but there are some ways to parallelize the init scripts; perhaps RH 8 uses such a technique. > ohci1394: pci_module_init failed That's related to Firewire stuff; it probably does affects ypur scanner problem. > 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? see above > 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? see above > 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". If /dev/sgb pointed to /sg1, that was indeed an error. > > All the other /dev/sg* files had permissions of 660 but my original /dev/sg1 > had permissions of 600, which I changed to 660. Don't forget to look, which group is set for /dev/sg1. Generally, ordinary users don't belong to the group assigned to SG device files. > > 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. A possible reason is that the sg module is not loaded. Try a "modprobe sg" Abel
