Finally got it going. I done a make distclean, ./configure, make and make install again for Xsane 0.84. Version now comes up with the with GIMP support, compiled with GIMP-1.2.2 in xsane but not xscanimage. I put a link in the ~/.gimp-1.2/plug-ins for Xsane in addition to the xscanimage that was already there. Now I get the scanner under FILE acquire. Tested it and it now works, although there are two devices in addition to Screen Shot shown, XSane: Device dialog and Xsane: avision:'dev'scanner.
Documentation for all of this is spread all over and some of it is flat out wrong, especially for these versions. Of course SuSE does not help either. There should be one place for some howtos on installing scanners to work with Xsane and Gimp. I will try to reconstruct my steps and send in. Maybe someone can pretty it up and post it so some else does not have to go through all of these headaches. Every hardware installation takes anywhere from 4 days to two weeks. Hopefully the Linux community and the hardware manufactures get their act together, otherwise, Linux will never be on the home desktop except for some linux gurus and a few technical people. So far installation of any hardware including that that is already on the computer has been a nightmare. Have almost give up a few time. Still don't have what I would call a useable system for what I want. Still have some more to go, and this after 4 months already. Sometime you install one thing and it breaks something else. Art -----Original Message----- From: Henning Meier-Geinitz [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 12:43 PM To: SANE devel Subject: Re: [sane-devel] Sane is definately not Scanner Access Now Easy Hi, On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 12:06:24PM -0800, Art Fore wrote: > Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate loadable module in module-path: > "libpixmap.so" 16 times. Looks like a problem with your GTK installation. I don't think it's related to SANE. > xsane-0.84 (c) 1988-2002 Oliver Rauch > Email: [email protected] > package xsane-0.84 > compiled with GTK-1.2.10 > XSane output formats: jpeg, png, pnm, ps, raw, tiff XSane isn't compiled with gimp support. > done the stuff at http://www.mostang.com/sane/man/xscanimage.1.html Running Stop! Now you are talking about xscanimage, a different program. > under Gimp. Still cannot see plugin when I open gimp. Xscanimage shows up > when I do a ls /home/afore/.gimp-1.2/plug-ins And xscanimage is compiled with gimp support (configure talks about this)? You looked at the menu "Xtns->acqire image" for xscanimage? > It does not have the gimp support, Are you still talking about xscanimage? From what do you know that it hasn't gimp support? You can check this with "ldd /usr/local/bin/xscanimage". There should be a line like: libgimp-1.2.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgimp-1.2.so.0 (0x40020000) If you get different results with xsane/xscanimage and scanimage concerning the detection of your scanner: You may have kept you old installation of SANE in /usr, while the new is in /usr/local, so the graphical frontends use the old one. Just a guess... Bye, Henning _______________________________________________ Sane-devel mailing list [email protected] http://www.mostang.com/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel
