Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote:
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.
is the problem the software, or the configuration?
I have an "unsupported" USB acer (now benq) scanner that I have long
been able to get working by editing the correct files in /etc/sane.d/
(in my case snapscan.conf) to point to the windows firmware file that
the computer would use if it was in windows
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