this sounds like a similar problem to one reported on the newsgroup linux.redhat. sounds like it could be a problem with XSane-0.84 and the related sane packages.
has anyone gotten a USB scanner working under redhat 7.3? -jim Jim Newton wrote: > > hi henning et al, thanks for the information. in fact i'm already > running > with setenv SANE_DEBUG_SNAPSCAN 255, and when i use scanimage -L i seem > to get the exact imformation as before. > > yes, my scanner is the SnapScan e40, and yes i've already read > extensively > and many times the web page you mentioned: > http://snapscan.sourceforge.net/ > > [jimka@localhost sane-backends-1.0.7]$ scanimage -L > > No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different, > check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by the > sane-find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please read the documentation > which came with this software (README, FAQ, manpages). > > I've read the web pages for sane and for snapscan and much documentation > for scanimage, and xscanimage and for xsane and for sane, but i have not > found an explanation of what it is that scanimage needs in order to find > a scanner. aparently it needs something more than sane-find-scanner > needs. > > -jim > > > Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 19:33:50 +0200 > > From: Henning Meier-Geinitz <henn...@meier-geinitz.de> > > To: sane-de...@mostang.com > > Subject: Re: [sane-devel] sane-find-scanner works but scanimage does not > > find scanner > > > > Hi, > > > > On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 04:05:44PM +0200, Jim Newton wrote: > > > hi, i've installed all the lastest sane rpms under redhat 7.2. > > > when i run sane-find-scanner i get promising results. > > > > If you read the text sane-find-scanner prints you will find out that > > this just means that your scanner was detected by the kernel. This > > doesn't necessarily mean, that it is supported by SANE or was detected > > by a backend. > > > > > but scanimage cannot find any SANE devices. Any ideas of what > > > might be wrong, or what i can try, or how i can get more debugging > > > information? > > > > A rather interesting information would be which scanner you use :-) > > > > > sane-find-scanner: found USB scanner (vendor = 0x06bd, product = 0x208d) > > > at device /dev/usb/scanner0 > > > > This is an Agfa Scanner (from the vendor id)? From snapscan.conf I > > guess you have a SnapScan e40? Looks like it is supported. > > > > If you run scanimage like this: > > > > SANE_DEBUG_SNAPSCAN=255 scanimage -L > > > > you should get more information about what's going on. > > > > The snapscan maintainers will probably be able to provide more help. > > Maybe you can fins usefull information here: > > http://snapscan.sourceforge.net/ > > > > Bye, > > Henning > >
