On Thursday 29 September 2005 23:46, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote:
> On September 29, 2005 15:26, Kaj Haulrich wrote:
> > On Thursday 29 September 2005 23:12, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote:
> > > I have a question for all you urpmi experts out there.
> > > Normally, I stick to urpmi whenever possible. But there are
> > > times when a newer package is needed than is available in an
> > > rpm. Or even the package needs some development work.
> > >
> > > I'm in that situation right now with sane. If I want to get
> > > my old scanner working (a Mustek 1200 III EP), I'm going to
> > > have to tweak the sane-mustek_pp back-end, because this
> > > particular model is not supported. Sounds like an interesting
> > > project...
>
> ...
>
> > Here is what I would try : As root : menudrake. Find xsane
> > (under Multimedia, Graphics). Edit the command line to point
> > to /usr/local/xsane. Save.
> >
> > Assuming you have xsane as a gui to sane, that *should* work.
> >
> > Kaj Haulrich.
>
> It's not xsane that's the problem, it's sane, which xsane uses.
>
> Sane is composed of the sane-backend, which provides the drivers
> for the various supported scanners; and sane-frontend, which
> provides the interface between sane and the apps that use it,
> like gimp, xsane, kooka, and pretty much anything else that might
> use a scanner.
>
> There are only 2 executables, sane-config and sane-find-scanner.
> But there are some 62 libraries making up the backend alone.
OK Ron, I hope you can figure it out.
SANE = Scanner Access Now Easy, right ? ;-)
Kaj Haulrich.
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