http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5197
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No, the scanner being configured or not has no influence on this. This
configuration is saved in the file /etc/sane.d/dll.conf and
/etc/sane.de/<driver>.conf. With the default configuration of these files as
provided by the SANE packages 80% of all supported scanners do not need to be
explicitly configured. This means that most scanners even work without running
scannerdrake, for example when you simply install the SANE packages with rpmdrake.
You need to run scannerdrake
- to let the SANE packages being installed automatically
- to use the 20% of supported scanners which do not work with the default
settings in SANE's config files
- to share scanners on a network
scannerdrake determines whether it has to install SANE by checking the presence
of the following files everytime when it is started, independent whether there
are already correctly set up scanners:
/usr/bin/scanimage
/usr/bin/xsane
/usr/lib/gimp/*/plug-ins/xsane (only if GIMP is installed)
If one of them is missing, it does the equivalent of
urpmi sane-backends xsane
and if GIMP is present also
urpmi xsane-gimp
("urpmi" installs the packages given on its command line and all packages needed
by these packages)
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description:
I've installed Mandrake 9.2 RC1 and updated to cooker.
I have a Plustek OpticPro UT12 USB scanner.
I've run scannerdrake and it detected 2 instances of scanner: hp4200 and
plustek, both on /dev/usb/scanner0. That's ok, I just need to use the correct one.
But scannerdrake didn't install packages necessary to take use of that scanner -
xsane, xsane-gimp (if gimp is present).
I had to install them manually by doing "su" to root and using rpmdrake. A
newbie would probably not handle that.
