Hi, On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 07:04:44AM -0700, Karl F. Larsen wrote: > The next step is to look for the scanner. In a Terminal window make > it a super user with su- and provide your root password. Now type this: > > sane-find-scanner <Enter> > > It will either print out some words but have zero information, or it will > find the scanner. The out put when a scanner is found looks like this:
If you just want the lines without all the comments, try sane-find-scanner -q (at least when the SANE version is rather current). > # You may want to run this program as super-user to find all devices. > # Once you found the scanner devices, be sure to adjust access > # permissions as necessary. So you tried it as user :-) > sane-find-scanner: found USB scanner (vendor = 0x04b8, product = 0x010f) at > device /dev/usb/scanner0 > Please notice that the last line that starts sane-find-scanner: > lists all the data about your scanner so you KNOW Sane has found the scanner > you want to use. Of course This is my scanner and it's plugged into the > first USB port /dev/usb/scanner0 Just for information: /dev/usb/scanner0 needn't correspond to the first USB port. It's just the first scanner found by the scanner module. > Then I tried to remove the scanner module with "rmmod scanner" and > discovered it was not even loaded! That's not unusual. I just didn't want to confuse users even more with "if you scanner module is laoded, ... otherwise ...". > Before I did this sane-find-scanner found nothing. After it found my > scanner. I will put this line into the /ect/rc.d/rc.local file so I don't > have to type it in every time. > > So my new condition is this: My scanner still does not work, but now > I know Sane does find my scanner, and now the question is why does it not > work? Probably the backend you need is not setup correctly. See the other mails concerning your problem. Bye, Henning
