On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Jacek Ru?yczka <stacheldraht at interia.pl> wrote: > Am Sonntag 22 Februar 2009 22:34:51 schrieb m. allan noah: >> I dont use SUSE, but I can make some educated guesses about their system: >> >> 1. install the libusb-devel package from suse. I assume yast can do this? >> >> 2. as root, remove parts of existing sane >> >> rm -rf /usr/lib/sane >> rm -f /usr/lib/libsane* >> rm -rf /etc/sane.d >> >> 3. as non-root: download sane backends snapshot from: >> >> http://www.sane-project.org/snapshots/ >> >> 4. tar xzf sane-backends-VERSION.tar.gz (replace VERSION with that of >> the file you downloaded) >> >> 5. cd sane-backends >> >> 6. ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --disable-locking >> >> 7. make >> >> 8. as root, in the same directory: make install >> >> 9. Then run 'scanimage -L' as root with the scanner plugged in and turned >> on, and lets see if it shows up. >> >> allan >> > Hi, > > I 've tried it out with the fresh sourcecode from the CVS server. No use. > scanimage -L says: > > device 'hp3900:libusb:004:005' is an Unknown RTS8822 chipset based flatbed > scanner. > > :-((((( >
Perhaps- that is a good sign? If you run: scanimage > foo.pnm what does foo.pnm look like? -- "The truth is an offense, but not a sin"
