Andreas et al.,
Thanks for helping me out with my earlier automounting problem, BTW.
Works fine now.
I wonder if you or someone on the list could point me in the right
direction on hooking in a scanner on my linux box. Just some basic info
on context would be an enormous help. One of the problems with being a
linux newbie is that you often can't even figure out what part of the
forest a particular tree is in!
I have SANE and xscanimage installed (LM 8.0).
I have an HP 500 PSC all-in-one (scanner, printer, copier) hooked in on
the parallel port.
Printing works fine.
xscanimage will run but is not communicating with the printer/scanner.
Do I need to get a driver from HP? Is SANE only for SCSI hookups? In
short what kind of steps do I need to take to grab an image from the
scanner?
TIA.
Terry Smith
Woods Hole, MA
"Andreas J. Guelzow" wrote:
>
> Leland L Waters wrote:
>
> > I installed Sane with frontends and backends (from MDK 8.0 install disk) on
> > my desktop computer running MDK 8.0. I can can access my scanner from GIMP,
> > but only get a communication error.
> >
> > I am running an ABIT BP6 motherboard with a pair of Celeron 366's (at 550
> > Mbps) and 384K PC133 ram. The scanner is a HP 4C flatbed connected to channel
> > 1 of a TEKRAM DC-390U3W SCSI 160 controller.
> >
> > Where do I find a SANE configuration utility?
>
> There is a bug in SANE 1.0.3/1.0.4 that causes this problem if you are
> using a 2.4 kernel. THere is a very simple fix for that but I haven't
> gotten around to compiling a repaired RPM. See:
>
> http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/2001-10/0413.html
>
> If you should encounter a fixed mandrake rpm, please let me know
>
> Andreas
>
> --
> Prof. Dr. Andreas J. Guelzow
> Chair of Science
> Concordia University College of Alberta
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.math.concordia.ab.ca/aguelzow
