Thanks so much for the information. You are exactly right. Fedora20_x86 installed sane libs from the repos in /usr/lib64. When I compiled from git, sane backends libs were installed in /usr/local/lib/.
The path to the new scanimage binary was already first in the path: /usr/local/bin. So, the fix for me was to create a file in /etc/ld.so.conf.d named 1.sane.conf, in which I added: /usr/local/lib. I then executed ldconfig as root and all is well. :) I can now use xsane from a launcher or from GIMP. It appears to be working very well. This will make things much easier for me and considering the unbelievable deal I got on this cool multifunction printer, I'm doing the happy dance. A big kudos to everyone who helped get the D530 operational in SANE and a big thank you to all who helped me get this working in Fedora 20_x86. ~gtux On Tue, October 21, 2014 10:45 am, m. allan noah wrote: > Sounds like you have two copies of sane-backends (and hence, > scanimage) installed. If you call the replacement copy of scanimage, it > will default to using the replacement libs. You will need to setup your ld > paths to load the replacement first. I continue to be surprised that > distro's do this- put /usr/local/bin first in the $PATH, but not put > /usr/local/lib first in ldconfig. > > > man ldconfig might give some details, and so does section 3.1 of this > doc: > http://www.sane-project.org/README.linux > > > allan > > On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 10:25 AM, tx <g...@gimpchat.com> wrote: > >> Thanks for the link. It contains some good info. Actually, I've been >> able to run scanimage as a regular user after adding the user to the >> "lp" >> group. I do have to specify the device as a command line argument. >> >> My current problem is that I can't use SANE frontend GUIs. Xsane and >> its variants are not able to detect the scanner. That's odd because >> "scaniamge >> -L" detects the scanner and so does "sane-find-scanner". One would >> assume, if both of those see the scanner, the frontends would be able >> detect it. I don't know of anyway to specify the device on the command >> line when using xsane, as I do with scanimage. My initial thought was >> that SANE GUIs were simply frontends to scanimage. I guess that isn't >> the case, unless the frontends just aren't properly interfacing with >> scanimage. >> >> Perhaps there are still permission issues or perhaps I'm missing >> something. >> >> The scanimage app works well, as root or as a regular user. It scans at >> all resolutions and geometries. My main goal is tobe able to scan >> directly into GIMP but I need Frontend GUIs to function properly in >> order to use the GIMP plug-in. >> >> ~gtux >> >> >> On Tue, October 21, 2014 8:20 am, Johannes Meixner wrote: >> >>> >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> >>> >>> On Oct 20 21:39 tx wrote (excerpt): >>> >>> >>>> I am now able to scan as root >>>> >>>> >>> ... >>> >>> >>>> I guess my issue now is one of permissions. >>>> >>>> >>> >>> I did not read all the details in this mail thread but >>> perhaps the section about "scanner access permissions" in >>> http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Configuring_Scanners >>> might provide an usable workaround for you >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> - >>> The best workaround to get those kind of issues out of sight >>> is to use the "saned"... >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> - >>> (of course provided you let the "saned" run as root). >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Kind Regards >>> Johannes Meixner >>> -- >>> SUSE LINUX Products GmbH -- Maxfeldstrasse 5 -- 90409 Nuernberg -- >>> Germany >>> HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix >>> Imendoerffer >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org >>> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel >>> Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" >>> to sane-devel-requ...@lists.alioth.debian.org >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org >> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel >> Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" >> to sane-devel-requ...@lists.alioth.debian.org > > > > -- > "well, I stand up next to a mountain- and I chop it down with the edge > of my hand" > -- sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" to sane-devel-requ...@lists.alioth.debian.org