Hi, On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 06:42:58AM -0600, Trevor Cordes wrote: > Hi, I'm new to the list. I just bought an Epson 3490 as it looked > possible to make it work with linux and it got good reviews.
In addition to what Oliver wrote: > 5. *** THE BIG PAIN *** I'm not sure if anyone knows why this happened: It > might be FC3 specific. The problem was something in the system (I still > don't know what) makes a symlink from /usr/local/lib/sane/libsane.so.1 -> > libsane-v4l.so.1.0.16. That's totally bogus. If I rm the symlink it just IIRC this is caused by the libtool --finish call in backend/Makefile. In CVS there is a workaround that removes these links. At least it should... > instantly pops back into existence!! Weird! This wouldn't have been a > problem, but my /etc/ld.so.conf had /usr/local/lib/sane listed BEFORE "/usr/local/lib/sane" should NEVER be listed in /etc/ld.so.conf. This has been obsolete for five (?) years now. Don't do that. If your distribution does that, tell the maintainers to stop it immediately. "/usr/local/lib/" may be necessary, however. > /usr/local/lib and so this bogus libsane.so was being used instead of the > real one in /usr/local/lib! Reversing the order in ld.so.conf solved the > problem. Scanner works great now. Just remove the entry from ld.so.conf. Bye, henning
