Hi, On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 09:02:00AM -0700, Dr. Jones wrote: > Herr Meier-Geinitz:
Sorry for starting a rant just at the beginning, it's not directed to you only: 1) This is a mailing list. I'm not the only one who answers. Please do not direct mails to me. If I can, I will answer. But most of the time there are other developers or users who are qualified better. 2) Start a new thread when you don't respond to an existing message. If you want to ask about a different topic, do not reply to an existing message but write a new one. I nearly missed your message because it was inside this thread. Now for your questions: > I am having trouble getting sane and xsane set up on my system. I > have an HP ScanJet 4c with the symbios SCSI card. It worked fine > under windows and I notice in the sane docs that it should work with > linux. > My problems may lie in the initial set up of sane, xsane and > sane-frontends in my debian linux system. For most scanners, it's not necessary to set up any part of SANE at all. > I read that I could run 'sane-find-scanner' and yet even after > reinstalling sane and xsane, I could not run that command. You mean that that file is not found? So you didn't install it. Which version of SANE do you use? In very old versions sane-find-scanner was not installed. > If I run 'locate sane' I get a host of directories where various sane > files and folders exist. I am wishing I could purge everything > related to sane from my system and then start afresh with a clean new > setup of sane. If you use RPMs, just uninstall all the sane packages from your system by using your package management tool or rpm directly. As for your scanner: First load the SCSI driver for your symbios scsi card and make sure it is detected (cat /proc/scsi/scsi). Bye, Henning
