Hi, On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 07:50:37AM -0700, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: > Some expert will probably jump in with a better explanation, but yeah, I read > in one of the man pages that a TV card can interfere. Sane is capable of > treating a TV card as a scanning device (doing frame capture, I presume). If > it picks this card up as the first scanning device, it will be the default. > There's something you need to do to change the default scanning device.
However, even in this case both devices (the tv card and the scanner) will be shown by scanimage -L. xsane and other graphical frontends will show a selection box. Disabling the v4l backend is possible by commenting it out in dll.conf. Bye, henning