All Hail to James :) (sorry for the length of this one)
James suggested that I check my BIOS - which prompted me to recall that I had loaded Mandrake on *another* machine. A quick check and there it was 'usb disabled'. Should have checked first, I know (mea culpa, mea culpa) "Enabled" and there is my printer - now working - and my scanner - not working. So... Should I uninstall SANE (which I installed using sane-backends-1.0.14.tar.gz) and re-install from my Mandrake 10 discs? Or keep what I've got? I ran 'which scanimage' and it shows /usr/bin/scanimage [blah blah]$ sane-find-scanner found USB scanner (vendor=0x04a5 [Color], product=0x2060 [ FlatbedScanner 13])t libusb:001:003 # Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be supported b # SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage. # You may want to run this program as root to find all devices. Once you # found the scanner devices, be sure to adjust access permissions as # necessary. [blah blah]$ scanimage -l [snapscan] Cannot open firmware file /path/to/your/firmware/file.bin. [snapscan] Edit the firmware file entry in snapscan.conf. scanimage: open of device snapscan:libusb:001:003 failed: Invalid argument [blah blah]$ locate snapscan.conf /etc/sane.d/snapscan.conf [blah blah]$ su Password: [blah blah]# which scanimage /usr/bin/scanimage [blah blah] # sane-find-scanner found USB scanner (vendor=0x04a5 [Color], product=0x2060 [ Flatbe t libusb:001:003 # Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not b # SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage. I went through HardDrake and that seemed fine. When I boot up Xsane it says "failed to open device 'snapscan:libusb:001:003' invalid argument. SANE site talks about editing config files but not what to actually put in there. By the way, this is a Diamond View DV648U which is apparently a clone of the Acer flatbed 13. Any suggestions or directions gratefully acknowledged. Patrick -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
