Hi, Thomas Gieseler told me about an entry in the SuSE support database (http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/pohletz_xsane_noscanner.html) that is about what to do when XSane doesn't find a scanner even if it's definitely there. SuSE writes that a segfault in umax causes this problem. They propose two solutions:
1: Add "/dev/scanner" in v4l.conf. Yes, that's right, in the configuration file for the Video for Linux backend. Any idea what's the reason for this? If /dev/scanner points to a SCSI device, the v4l ioctl will simply fail, won't it? 2: The socond solution is to diable umax in dll.conf, which would be more appropriate if the source of the problem were correct. I don't know of any such problem and the 1. solution seems to be quiete starnge for me. Has nay of the developers contacted SuSE about this? Bye, Henning
