Hello, Dale. On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 06:33:47AM -0600, Dale wrote: > J. Roeleveld wrote: > > Alan Mackenzie <a...@muc.de> wrote:
> >> Another question - is there any sensible way of cutting the unnecessary > >> stuff out of SANE_BACKENDS? That variable is set in the ebuild, and it > >> doesn't feel the Right Thing to edit the ebuild file. > >>> -- > >>> - Yohan Pereira > > Set it in 'make.conf'. > > -- > > Joost > If you are like me and not sure what to search for, this is a example: > SANE_BACKENDS="avision" Thanks. For me it's SANE_BACKENDS="plustek". Not sure why, since it's a Canon scanner. Got that info from running sane and opening its info window. > You would almost certainly need to replace that avision. I found a used > scanner only to find out why they didn't want it either, it was broke. > lol I got mine given me by somebody who'd just upgraded to Windows 7; it didn't work in W7. Haven't you got to love Microsoft? ;-) > If you do a emerge -vp <sane package>, it should show you the available > options. You could google for them to but emerge could be faster. > Hope that helps. > Dale > :-) :-) -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
