On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 02:13:07AM +0200, Sigurd Stordal wrote: > On Monday 30 April 2007 21:34:15 Y P wrote: > > but xsane seems to find his Logitech QuickCam and doesn't give him the > > choice to tell that's his intensions are to scan, not to webcam
> 1. Check the config file for the scanner, and see if the /dev/sg0 entry has > been uncommented. Where is this config file you are talking about supposed to be? he started xsane where he saw his webcam instead of his scanner; I personally use a script under commandline. > 2. Check if you need firmware. How can he know he needd such firmware? scanner is a scsi Agfa snapscan 1236? The doc at the sane archive doesn't talk about it he said. > 3. Check that you are a member of the scanner group (if he types "groups" in > terminal it will show the groups he are members of, if he is not a member of > the scanner group then he had to add this group to his user. This all was ok, I simply add to my information that under /dev there is a link sg0 with the ownership root scanner YP
