Thanks Renato. But my problems appear to be more difficult. The Visioneer scanner is not supported at all, and now I'm having problems with my second choice--a Umax Astra 1220P Parellel Port that is slow, I had replaced with the Visioneer USB, and is *supposed* to work fine with Linux. --- Renato Tognaccini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Peter Rymshaw wrote: > > > I'm dual booting with W98, trying to make full > switch > > to Linux step by step. > > > > I have a Visioneer 6200 USB scanner which Linux > does > > not seem to be able to recognize. (The USB shows > up in > > Mandrake Control Centerr, but no scanner.) I > installed > > all RPMs named SANE and now have a ton of programs > > with that name, but still no sign of scanner and I > > have no idea how to access a sane window to see if > > there is any thing there that I need to configure. > > > > Is my problem simply that the scanner is not > > compatable, or is there something else that I need > to > > do? Is SANE the right tool? > > > > I had a similar problem with an epson scanner. The > mailing list helped me to > solve the problem: > > I just edited the file /etc/sane.d/epson.conf I > commented the line with SCSI > epson and I uncommented > the line with /dev/usbscanner. That's all I needed. > Perhaps you should have a > file similar to > epson.conf with the name of your scanner. > > Bye > > Renato > > > -- > Renato Tognaccini, > Dipartimento di Progettazione Aeronautica, > Universita` di Napoli Federico II, > Piazzale V. Tecchio 80, > 80125 Napoli, ITALIA. > > tel.: +39-0817682179 > fax: +39-0817682187 > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >
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