At Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:54:52 -0400 CentOS mailing list <centos@centos.org> wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2009-10-01 at 18:41 -0400, Robert Heller wrote: > > At Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:58:32 -0400 CentOS mailing list <centos@centos.org> > > wrote: > > > < trimmed > > > > > The beast works just fine as both a printer and a scanner (I have not > > tried to send or receive a fax). xsane, if given the hpaio:<mumble> > > url on the command line, works just fine and scanimage is perfectly > > happy to use the URL defined in the SANE_DEFAULT_DEVICE environment > > variable. The problem is that the people who will be using it are > > non-techies and want to be able to just click on the Gnome menu (or use > > Gimp's File=>Acquire=>scan menu item). This is where it does not work. > > Somehow, sane/xscan is not finding the device by scanning for it, > > which seems to be what is needed, since xscan seems to be ignoring > > SANE_DEFAULT_DEVICE, if the device is not found first by scanning for it. > > > Maybe your issue is that the environment variable is not set when the > Gnome session starts up, so the Gnome menu item doesn't see it. How are > you specifying the SANE_DEFAULT_DEVICE value? *I* am just trying it from the command line (I have not gotten as far as trying it with gnome: server1.wendellfreelibrary.org% SANE_DEFAULT_DEVICE="hpaio:/net/Officejet_Pro_L7700?ip=192.168.1.253" server1.wendellfreelibrary.org% export SANE_DEFAULT_DEVICE server1.wendellfreelibrary.org% xsane xsane that pops up its "scanning for devices" window, then its "no devices available" dialog doing: server1.wendellfreelibrary.org% xsane "hpaio:/net/Officejet_Pro_L7700?ip=192.168.1.253" works fine -- xsane brings up the preview window and its main window and is perfectly happy to 'Acquire Preview' (and the preview looks like it is supposed to, so I know the scanner is really scanning). and scanimage properly uses the value of SANE_DEFAULT_DEVICE with no complaints, except that scanimage -L tells me that no devices were found (as does scan-find-scanner, which does not seem to be checking for networked scanners). I'm *tempted* to just hack the GNome system menu file to hardwire in the command line argument, except that when an update to GNome will clobber it. > > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software -- Download the Model Railroad System http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Binaries for Linux and MS-Windows hel...@deepsoft.com -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ModelRailroadSystem/ _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
