Hello Philipp, Thanks for the response!
On Sunday 13 June 2004 14:20, root wrote: > > [ ... ] > > The big secret was that I had to build sane/sane > > backends with: > > > > USE="usb" emerge sane-backends > > try the '--verbose' option of emerge. this can help a > lot. and sometimes you can see a description of the > use-flags with 'etcat uses <package-name>'. Thanks for that pointer. Love gentoo but there is indeed a bit to learn :-). Now if I can get it working as other than root, we'll be there. xsane insists on picking up that tv tuner card no matter what. I even copied over the AGFA:SNAPSCAN.drc over to my .sane directory and it is roundly ignored :-). Thanks & take care, V. -- Victoria Welch, WV9K/7. "If we knew what we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?" --Albert Einstein "Engineering is the art of making what you want from things you can get."- Jerry Avins
