On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 4:57 AM, David Brant <brantosaurus at hotmail.com> wrote: > Hi Allan > > Before i tried your suggestion xsane was as dead as a dodo. > > scanimage > image.pnm simply placed a lineart image into > my /home/'username' directory which i simply checked with the GIMP image > editor > > Thinking using a text based application like scanimage was not really my > idea of a final solution, i selected xsane once more. To my great > surprise and delight it kicked in and is now up and running. I can now > scan in full glorious colour! > > For the record, why does xsane now work when all else before failed? Has > it just simply used the scanned image location info to deduce my user > account and set the appropriate image file and directory permissions? > If so 'No devices available' does not adequately convey the real system > requirements.
Xsane has no idea that scanimage has been used previously. It knows what user you are because you logged in. Probably this is a driver issue, but it will be impossible to debug unless you can reliably reproduce the problem. allan > > All the same, many thanks for that > > Dave > > On Sun, 2009-05-10 at 11:26 -0400, m. allan noah wrote: >> > >> > Unfortunately i do not know how to use scanimage to be of any > further >> > effective use. >> > >> > Any suggestions? ?Do I need to try something different? >> >> scanimage --help should give more clue. hint: >> >> scanimage > image.pnm >> >> then look at image.pnm with your favorite image viewer. If that looks >> ok, but xsane does not work, perhaps you are using a different user? >> >> allan > > > > -- > sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel > Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" > ? ? ? ? ? ? to sane-devel-request at lists.alioth.debian.org > -- "The truth is an offense, but not a sin"
