--- Christopher Marshall <[email protected]> wrote: > I had it working great through libusb on three different linux machines (all > running slackware > 9.0) for a week or so and now, all of a sudden, it either gives me black > scans (vertical bands > of > black and white), or it makes a hideous noise (as if it is trying to move the > motor in the wrong > direction). > > I wondered if perhaps I did something to get the scanner in a wierd state, so > I did a scan on a > windows machine (using the software that came with the scanner) and it worked > normally. Then I > put it back on the nearest linux machine and got the same hideous noise. > > I'm crushed :-( > > Any ideas? >
I figured it out. I was not copying my plustek.conf file to the proper place (in my case /usr/local/etc/sane.d/plustek.conf). However, since I was working in the same directory I had written the correct plustek.conf file in, scanimage was working there. When I would go to another directory, it would stop working. That's because the plustek backend looks in the current directory and if it finds a plustek.conf file there, uses it instead of the one in /etc or /usr/local/etc. That really threw me for a loop. The man page for sane-plustek doesn't mention that it looks in the current directory for plustek.conf. Chris Marshall __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus
