Hi, I'm cc'ing to the sane-devel list again. I'm not a plustek expert so please direct yout answers to the list. Maybe someone with more plustek experience knows what's going on better :-)
On Sat, Jun 07, 2003 at 06:36:52PM +0000, Michael Rasile wrote: > Thanks for the reply. I tried everything you suggested but alas, no > go. I have the scanner and usb stuff compiled into the kernel, so I > am not using modules. I am using Gentoo and I know the version of > xsane is not the latest 0.86. I don't know if this has anything to do > with anything. I know the scanner works because I was using Mandrake > 9.1 previously and the scanner setup was all done automatically. The > kernel finds the scanner at boot time and sane-find-scanner finds the > scanner. Please show us the output of "sane-find-scanner -q". > Why won't xsane see the scanner. I'm so frustrated because I > can't figure this thing out even with the docs. :-) I checked the > website for the driver, but do I need to recompile sane-frontend and > back-end or what? If you have recent versions of sane-backends, no you don't need to recompile anything (I guess). Which version of sane-backends do you use (scanimage --version)? > I know this is all very simple for you, but I have > run into a brick wall. I have placed everything(I think) in > /etc/sane.d/dll.conf and plustek.conf but alas, no go. Any further > suggestions as to what I might do or where I might go to help myself > figure this out. Well, I told you how to enable debugging. Did you do that? What happened? I didn't tell you to send us the debug output explicitely, but that was my intention :-) So Please show us the ouput of SANE_DEBUG_PLUSTEK=255 scanimage -L You can save it into a file like this: SANE_DEBUG_PLUSTEK=255 scanimage -L 2>file.txt If there is no output (but the "No scanner found"), the plustek backend is not loaded at all (nor in dll.conf?) In this case, please also try: SANE_DEBUG_DLL=255 scanimage -L 2>file2.txt > I do appreciate your help and also your patience for > reading the ramblings of a nearly insane.(no pun intended) No problem. That's one of the aims of this mailing list :-) > :-))I've > checked the Gentoo forums and see people having the same problem with > xsane, but I haven't found anything yet that helps me. I will keep > searching. You know, if Mandrake is able to configure my scanner, > shouldn't just about every distro be able to do the same thing? (no > response needed here. :-)) Well, the response should be given by your distributor :-) Bye, Henning
