I got my scanner to work just by pointing apt-get to unstable and installing
sane 1.0.1 at first. I've been installing quite a few other things, and now my
scanner doesn't work any more. I tried installing the latest sane from Debian,
as well as the new gimp, and xsane. My scanner is an AGFA 1236S. find-scanner
reports it at /dev/sg1. I've modified dll.conf by commenting out everything but
snapscan, and changed snapscan.conf to point to /dev/sg1, but scanimage very
occasionally will scan, spitting loads of stuff to the console, but most of the
time I just get segmentation fault. xscanimage give some error for gtk, sorry I
don't have the error available. and xsane just reports no scanner device
available. Unfortunately, Debians latest version of xsane in unstable is .49 I'm
not sure if they'll include .50 before the freeze. When I get some more time
with the PC, I'll see what else I can find out. It seems the problem with
xscanimage might be incompatibility with a new version of gtk+, because it was
working earlier. As far as scanimage and xsane, I'm not sure. I've set up
dll.conf and snapscan.conf to point to the device identified by find-scanner,
but the just say that the device is not available?
If anyone has any ideas where I should look, it would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers,
John Gay
