On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 11:36, m. allan noah wrote: > tom, did you do an 'rpm -e --force --nodeps sane-backends' first?
Yes. > > when you compiled the new sane backends, did you do: > > ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc No. I'll uninstall and verify that no sign of sane-backends remains, then install again. > make Yes. > make install Yes. > > if not, start with those two things. then we can be sure that the version > of sane you are using is the one you compiled. Thanks. I'll do it. > > allan > > On 25 Jun 2003, Thomas Frayne wrote: > > > On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 12:41, Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Then I rebooted to determine if the scanner would be detected as a usb > > > > device. The hardware browser still showed no browser, and xsane found > > > > no scanner device on startup. > > > > > > > > How can I get the scanner recognized as a USB device? > > > > > > That's done automatically. If it's not detected as USB device by the > > > kernel, it can't be used by hpusbscsi. > > > > > > Is it found by sane-find-scanner as root? > > > Is it found by scanimage -L as root? > > > If yes, you may need to set up permissions for libusb correctly. > > > That's explained in man sane-usb. > > > > > > > Thanks. I read the manual, found that permissions were not set > > correctly, set them in fstab as recommended. Then sane-find-scanner and > > scanimage -L worked as a normal user. However, the scanner still does > > not work. I think I am closer, but I am lost. > > > > Messages indicated failure of usbdevfs, which is supposed to be > > obsolete. /usr/local/etc/sane.d/avision.conf lists devices which do not > > exist. I suspect that there is a mismatches among the sane > > configuration which was set up for the initial Redhat 9, the sane > > configuration set up when I installed sane-backends-1.0.12.tar.gz and > > xsane-0.91.tar.gz, and the kernel 2.4.20-18.9, which was upgraded by > > Up2date, but I can't figure out how to straighten it out. > > > > I'll keep trying. I have just done > > modprobe scanner vendor=0x0001 product=0x0002, > > and I plan to reboot and continue debugging, starting with why > > /dev/usbscanner does not exist. > > > > Any help would be appreciated. > > > > Tom Frayne > >
