Hi, On Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 09:37:34PM +1200, Adam Bogacki wrote: > Henning, I'm an admirer of 'sane-troubleshoot'. > > Working through it helped me isolate and work through problems > to the point where sane-find-scanner and scanimage -L > work - as root and user - and I can 'scanimage>image.pnm' > successfully ... but xsane tells me 'no devices available'.
Probably beacuse youhave two installations of SANE on your system. One is used by xsane and one by scanimage. > One thing I'm not sure of is the correct place to put > the epson backend directory. 'sane-troubleshoot' > told me that the previous backend was old so I > downloaded the latest one from > http://www.khk.net/sane > untarred it in /home/adam and moved > it to /usr/local/lib/backend but 'sane-troubleshoot' > only found the one in /etc/sane.d/dll.conf > and could not find the scanner (which it had before > I 'updated' the backend). Those backend files need to be copied into the source code of SANE and the source code must be built after that. I guess it's easier to use a current CVS snapshot that already contains the newest backend. bye, Henning
