Hi, On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 07:01:51AM +0100, Major A wrote: > > >I don't have any scanner or camera. Since it's stated in Sane > > > documents that i don't have > > >to own a scanner or camera to play with sane. I did follow the > > > instruction to fetch and unpack the > > >compressed tar file, then follow the instructions in README. But > > > when i try to execute this command > > > > > >scanimage --list-devices but the no Sane device found. > > > > As you stated, you don't have any sane compatible devices. Like > > Tiger and the commercial, "you were expecting Igor?" :-) > > Actually, the SANE documentation refers to the PNM backend here. It > allows you to test any SANE frontend without actually having a > scanner. It is, however, disabled by default, for security > reasons. You have to supply the "--enable-pnm-backend" switch to > ./configure when you build the backends in order to enable it.
Hey, everyone forgets about the test backend :-) No need to recompile. Try "scanimage -d test --help" or "xsane test". If you want it to be listed in scanimage -L, edit dll.conf and enable the "test" line by removing the "#". Bye, Henning
