On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 09:57:22AM +0000, [email protected] wrote: > On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 09:19:38AM +0000, [email protected] wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 07:12:39PM -0500, m. allan noah wrote: > > > On Sat, 4 Nov 2006 [email protected] wrote: > [snip] > > > > > > > >If I run "scanimage -L" as root it says "No scanners were identified". > > > > > > > >If I run "xsane" or "xscanimage" as root they find both my scanners. > > > > > > the fact that scanimage does not work, but xsane does, generally means > > > that you have two copies of sane-backends installed, often the distro's > > > original one, and one in /usr/local > > > > > Ah, thanks, it's possible that I do have two copies of sane installed, > > I'll investigate. > > > It's not that I have two copies of sane installed, it's the various > "add-ons" that have screwed things up. It would appear that both the > HPLIP/CUPS installation and the iscan installation have assumed a base > directory of /usr/local whereas the basic sane installation is in > /usr. > > The result is a right hodge-podge of things in the wrong places. > > It's *very* obvious why iscan doesn't work, I'm still less lear about > why "scanimage -L" doesn't work, as suggested I think I'll maybe try > uninstalling and then re-installing everything with "where to install" > set to the same place for all. > Well simply uninstalling iscan and then re-installing it so that it installs in /usr instead of /usr/local seems to have cleared up most of my problems. All I have to deal with now is the udev/permissions.
Thanks for the help everyone. -- Chris Green ([email protected])
