On Sat, 01 Mar 2003 06:10, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi Stephen
As a technically inclined newbie I tried what you did and discovered the = below=20 difference. Maybe might help you? " Hi Henning, " " Further to my later posting " " I take following actions; " " as user " " su " password " " [root@server /]# rpm -qa|grep sane " sane-backends-1.0.7-6 " sane-frontends-1.0.7-2 " xsane-0.84-2 " sane-backends-devel-1.0.7-6 " " [root@server /]# sane-find-scanner " # Note that sane-find-scanner will find any scanner that is connected " # to a SCSI bus and some scanners that are connected to the Universal " # Serial Bus (USB) depending on your OS. It will even find scanners " # that are not supported at all by SANE. It won't find a scanner that " # is connected to a parallel or proprietary port. " " sane-find-scanner: found SCSI scanner "AGFA SNAPSCAN 310 1.90" at devic= e " /dev/sg1 " sane-find-scanner: found SCSI scanner "AGFA SNAPSCAN 310 1.90" at devic= e " /dev/sgb XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX In the following section I was sure to include exactly what sane-find-sca= nner=20 returned. In your case might I suggest : ( NB -Do not go as su! ) #cd /dev #chmod -c 0777 sg1 I not sure why but I think in ensures 777 status to your sg1 file as loca= l and=20 not possibly only as root. [ This also allowed me to see the double entry= I=20 did know I had of my scanner when I issued xsane. I was given given a cho= ice=20 in my case to select xxx/scanner or xxx/scanner0. Hmmmm........ Both wor= ked. XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX " " [root@server /]# cd /dev/ " [root@server dev]# ln -s sgb scanner " [root@server /]# ls -l /dev/sgb " lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Aug 24 2002 /dev/sgb -> sg1 " [root@server dev]# cd / " [root@server /]# chmod -c 0777 /dev/sg1 " mode of `/dev/sg1' changed to 0777 (rwxrwxrwx) " " Start 'xsane'. After accepting the licence an Error warning popup " xane: no devices available " " B.Regards " Stephen " " " Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote: " > Hi, " > " > On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 08:45:54PM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: " > " >># cat /proc/scsi/scsi " >>Attached devices: " >>Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 " >> Vendor: SONY Model: CD-RW CRX160E Rev: 1.0e " >> Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 " >>Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 02 Lun: 00 " >> Vendor: AGFA Model: SNAPSCAN 310 Rev: 1.90 " >> Type: Scanner ANSI SCSI revision: 02 " > " > " > Good. " > " > Does sane-find-scanner find your scanner? Does it find it if you run " > as user? If it only works as root, you must set up permissions for t= he " > SCSI devices. See man sane-scsi and search for "permission". " > " > When it's found by sane-find-scanner, try scanimage -L. If it's not " > found, show us the output of " > " > SANE_DEBUG_SNAPSCAN=3D255 scanimage -L " > " > Bye, " > Henning " > _______________________________________________ " > Sane-devel mailing list " > [email protected] " > http://www.mostang.com/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel " > " " " " " _______________________________________________ " Sane-devel mailing list " [email protected] " http://www.mostang.com/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel " " --=20 Regards Frank [email protected] 025853824
