Re: [gentoo-user] insane backends

2017-11-05 Thread Philip Webb
Further to the thread re mysterious behaviour of 'sane-backends', I remembered what happened when I set my new scanner up earlier in 2017. There is no driver in 'sane-backends', because it contains a binary blob. You have to download an appropriate pkg for the V550 from Epson, which provides

Re: [gentoo-user] insane backends

2017-11-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 1 Nov 2017 17:28:41 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: > 171101 Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Wed, 1 Nov 2017 14:26:15 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: > >> 'qlist sane-backends | grep usr/lib64/sane' > >> Here all I get is : > >> root:552 log> qlist sane-backends | grep usr/lib64/sane > >>

Re: [gentoo-user] insane backends

2017-11-01 Thread Philip Webb
171101 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 1 Nov 2017 14:26:15 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: >> 'qlist sane-backends | grep usr/lib64/sane' >> Here all I get is : >> root:552 log> qlist sane-backends | grep usr/lib64/sane >> /usr/lib64/sane/libsane-dll.so.1 >> /usr/lib64/sane/libsane-dll.so >>

Re: [gentoo-user] insane backends

2017-11-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 1 Nov 2017 14:26:15 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: > > 'qlist sane-backends | grep usr/lib64/sane' > > lists the installed backends here. > > Here all I get is : > > root:552 log> qlist sane-backends | grep usr/lib64/sane > /usr/lib64/sane/libsane-dll.so.1 >

Re: [gentoo-user] insane backends

2017-11-01 Thread Philip Webb
171101 Neil Bothwick wrote: > 'qlist sane-backends | grep usr/lib64/sane' > lists the installed backends here. Here all I get is : root:552 log> qlist sane-backends | grep usr/lib64/sane /usr/lib64/sane/libsane-dll.so.1 /usr/lib64/sane/libsane-dll.so

Re: [gentoo-user] insane backends

2017-11-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 31 Oct 2017 22:19:41 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: > 171030 Neil Bothwick wrote: > > ISTR that with use_expanded variables like this, > > if you don't set the variable then all options are enabled, > > so you've just built an un-Gentoolike version that works everywhere. > > That doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] insane backends

2017-10-31 Thread Philip Webb
171030 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 29 Oct 2017 22:39:31 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: >> 'sane-backends-1.0.27' just stabilised, so I updated to it. >> Previously I had selected 4 items from the list in SANE_BACKENDS, >> which is shown by 'emerge', ie 'epson epson2 plustek plustek_pp'. >> My

Re: [gentoo-user] insane backends

2017-10-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 29 Oct 2017 22:39:31 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: > 'sane-backends-1.0.27' just stabilised, so I updated to it. > Previously I had selected 4 items from the list in SANE_BACKENDS, > which is shown by 'emerge', ie 'epson epson2 plustek plustek_pp'. > My scanner is an 'Epson V550 Photo'. >

[gentoo-user] insane backends

2017-10-29 Thread Philip Webb
'sane-backends-1.0.27' just stabilised, so I updated to it. Previously I had selected 4 items from the list in SANE_BACKENDS, which is shown by 'emerge', ie 'epson epson2 plustek plustek_pp'. My scanner is an 'Epson V550 Photo'. Wanting to test which of the 4 items above was needed, I tried