forget that you are running debian for a second, and just run: scanimage --help
this will make the sane front-end (scanimage) display all the options that the scanner backend (driver) provides. oh- and respond to the whole list, not just to me... allan On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Osvaldo La Rosa wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 10:12:56AM -0400, m. allan noah wrote: >> Aldo- the options for paper size and scanning area are provided by the >> 'backend' which is a driver that talks to the scanner. scanimage is a >> 'frontend' which talks to you. try scanimage --help, which will tell the >> frontend to list all the options the backend provides. > > I don't understand: there's no any info about backend under Sarge > (Debian). > > Is there any Debian user here who can send an output of his/her > dpkg -l |grep sane or so? > > Aldo. > > -- "so don't tell us it can't be done, putting down what you don't know. money isn't our god, integrity will free our souls" - Max Cavalera
