Hi Gerhard; I installed RH8.0 yesterday, then had to go get the whole maryann of kde-3.0.4 for it cause I couldn't even get evolution to send a flippin email. BlueCurve/Psyche is a P.O.C.
And as usual the redhat installer installed its version of 1.0.8 anyway, meaning I had to do an rpm -e --nodeps `rpm -qa |grep sane` also. This due to your configure script telling me it was installed in /usr, and I knew better, or so I thought. But after all that, it worked, using an older 43.5 version of plustek. I also tested it at that time and both it and the gt-7200 epson backend both worked. So I just blew my sane-backends-1.0.8 directory away, unpacked a fresh copy, cd'd to it, and unpacked the plustek-sane-0_44_10.tar.gz into there. I didn't check anything, but ran configure as is and make, make install. Then having had to go into the icons preferences and find the new xsane and set that, I fired it off. Past the root warning and it then says "scanning for devices" and hangs seemingly forever as I eventualy had to kill it with kpm. I just started it again after doing a sane-frontends-1.0.8 make install, and its been hung now for about 2 minutes. But a ctrl-alt-esc plus a click on it kills it. Scanning the system, it appears that all the defines are correct in linux/drivers/usb/scanner.h, and a system scan of the usb hardware does eventually find it, but takes most of a minute to show the display which then includes the scanner. On the second run, the first one apparently timed out. /usr/local/etc/sane.d/plustek.conf still carries the old date, as does epson.conf in the same directory. Due to compiler missmatches since 3.2 is now stock, the first thing I did after the 8.0 install yesterday was recompile the kernel, same old config. A uname -a gives: Linux coyote.coyote.den 2.4.20-pre10-ac1 #3 Wed Oct 16 14:00:01 EDT 2002 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux What did I do wrong? Sniff, I want my scanner back! -- Cheers, Gene AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M 99.18% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
