On September 29, 2005 16:49, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > 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.
Yeah, easy if your scanner is already supported. No doubt it would be easier to just go buy a new scanner. But hey, I'm a developer, so I might as well give it a shot. My C is kind of rusty, and I haven't done any serious development under Linux before, and nothing with device drivers, so I'm not sure how far I'll get. But I still need to know what I should do about the urpmi vs. compiled-from-source issue. -- Ron ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net Opinions expressed here are all mine.
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