> > I hope that it is ok to post this here, if not let me know. I installed > > ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/Mandrake/10.2/SRPMS/main/sane-1.0.15-7mdk.src.rpm > > and the dependancies and everything seemed to install properly. When I > > run the program from either the GUI interface or the command line or > > sane-find-scanner it fails to find anything. My system is seeing the SCSI > > interface which the scanner is attached to. Is there something I'm > > missing. Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > Make sure that the user running scanimage/xsane/xscanimage has > read/write permissions to the scanner's device file > (/dev/sg*). There's no need to change any configuration files, the > default must work just fine. > > If this fails, please post the output of "SANE_DEBUG_COOLSCAN2=255 > scanimage -L". > > Andras
Here is what I get: [john@ip68-11-45-233 john]$ SANE_DEBUG_COOLSCAN2=255 scanimage -L [sanei_debug] Setting debug level of coolscan2 to 255. [coolscan2] sane_init() called. [coolscan2] coolscan2 backend, version 0.1.8 initializing. [coolscan2] sane_get_devices() called. [coolscan2] sane_get_devices(): Reading config file. [coolscan2] cs2_open() called, with device = auto and interface = 0 [coolscan2] sane_get_devices(): No devices detected. No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different, check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by the sane-find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please read the documentation which came with this software (README, FAQ, manpages). [coolscan2] sane_exit() called. [john@ip68-11-45-233 john]$ -- open source takes the bullshit out of software kernel 2.6.4 Mandriva 10.1 registered linux user: 389950
