At last it works. Well done and thanks for your patience and help.
The above comments are in response to m. allan noah's email of 07/06/07 12:52 as quoted below: > On 6/7/07, Robin Stewart <s48264 at bluebottle.com> wrote: > >>> now- in that same dir, two commands- >>> >>> `make` then `make install` >>> >>> allan >>> >>> >>> >> I have run the two commands. I then ran Xsane but it reported there are >> no devices. >> >> 1. robin at robin-desktop:~/download/SaneBackends/sane-backends-1.0.18$ >> sane-find-scanner -q >> found USB scanner (vendor=0x04a7, product=0x0424) at libusb:002:003 >> >> >> 2. robin at robin-desktop:~/download/SaneBackends/sane-backends-1.0.18$ >> SANE_DEBUG_AVISION=7 scanimage -L >> [sanei_debug] Setting debug level of avision to 7. >> >> ..... this seems the relevant answer amonngst many lines: >> [avision] attach: opening libusb:002:003 >> [avision] attach: open failed (Access to resource has been denied) >> >> > > try it as root. > > allan > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Get a free email address with REAL anti-spam protection. http://www.bluebottle.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/attachments/20070607/c12e75dd/attachment.htm