On Monday 07 Jan 2002 05:20, William Bouterse wrote: > Xsane was working from my previous LM 8.1x install > > I installed cooker 20011224 with generally good results. > however this is one glaring change I would like to remedy ASAP > > > My ancient but reliable scsi-scanner IS recognized > xsane is linked with gimp fine. > > Trying xsane from terminal or gimp giets VERY long search > for scsi devices and then gives "no devices available" > This used to be a few second process if a device was not attached, > now 5 minutes !!! Of course this time the device IS attached and > recognized as a scanner at boot.. > > This is xsane-0.82-1mdk > sane-backends-1.0.6-2mdk > sane-frontends-1.0.6.1mdk > > /proc/scsi/scsi shows my scanner ... > > Don't know if this is a cooker issue but > it WAS working in LM 8.1 > > William Bouterse > Talkeetna, Ak
Does it work as root? If so it could be permissions problem. [11:28 peter@penguin:peter]$ ll /dev/scanner lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Nov 15 13:14 /dev/scanner -> /dev/sgd [11:28 peter@penguin:peter]$ ll /dev/sgd lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Sep 28 02:27 /dev/sgd -> sg3 [11:28 peter@penguin:peter]$ ll /dev/sg3 crw-rw---- 1 peter cdwriter 21, 3 Aug 30 10:54 /dev/sg3 -- Peter Ruskin, Wrexham, Wales. Registered Linux User No. 219434 ( see http://counter.li.org/ ). Mandrake Linux release 8.1 (Vitamin) for i586 Kernel 2.4.8-34.1mdk-win4lin, XFree86 4.1.0, patch level 21mdk. KDE: 2.2.2. Qt: 2.3.2. Uptime 1 day 21 hours 55 minutes. ------------------------------------------------------------------
