On Monday 03 October 2005 17:19, Anastas Giokov wrote: > In README.linux, there is the following advice: > > "Gentoo users: If your USB scanner is not detected at all check that > USE=usb is set when emerging." > > I'm using Debian sid and trying to compile sane-backends from source, > but after successfull compilation and installation, I could not detect > the scanner at all. I suspect that the above applies to my problem, > but I could not figure out where/when to set USE=usb?
AFAIK, this IS gentoo only. Gentoo employs a USE-variable to determine which features/applications to add to the distro or to compile into applications. Most likely this won't apply for debian. More info on USE at: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2&chap=2 Regards Daniel - Happy Gentoo User
