You can start xscanimage <device> and you proabbly have seen that on the manpage
but that won't help in gimp.
If you get an answer to this then I am interested as well :)
Rgds,
Douglas
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> I've got sane installed on a Linux box and everything seems to work
> correctly.
> My scsi card and the scanner (UMAX Vista S12) get recognized correctly as
> reported by
> /proc/scsi/scsi and /var/adm/syslog.
> In my umax.conf file I've added the required lines as well as a symbolic
> link in /dev/ pointing to sg0 which is only accessible by the scanner group
> (and I've put myself in that group).
>
> The problem is though, that when I run xscanimage, I only get to choose
> between pnm:0 and pnm:1 for a device name.
> Xscanimage's man page describes only vaguely how it should be used. It
> descibes the options but while it says the you can specify a devicename, it
> doesn't not say what form this devicname should take.
> So, I've been invoking it by just typing:
> % xscanimage
> It gives me a dialog box to choose between pnm:0 and pnm:1 then it opens the
> xscanimage window.
> Near the bottom of the window I have:
> Invalid parameters
> and if I click on the scan button I get an error message:
> Failed to start scanner: Invalid argument
>
> Any ideas/help is appreciated. Thanks.
>
> P.S.: I tried running it as a gimp plug-in with the same results.
> P.P.S: I got the following directories/files when I ran xscanimage:
> ~/.sane/
> ~/.sane/xscanimage/
> ~/.sane/xscanimage/pnm.rc
> ~/.sane/xscanimage/pnm:0.rc
> ~/.sane/xscanimage/xscanimage.rc
>
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