Re: nikon coolscan III not detected

From: John Wright (johnmw@netway.com)
Date: Tue Mar 28 2000 - 17:44:47 PST

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    Hi, Thanks for the suggestion, I realized that I have no idea how/where
    to do this. Can you point me to a README? I'm a Windows 'expert'
    (whatever that means!) converting...

    -John

    Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
    >
    > [John Wright]
    > > The hardware is detected during boot. I see both my SCSI zip and
    > > Nikon Coolscan detected. My Zip drive works fine in Linux. I'm using
    > > Mandrake 6.1. The SCSI card is an AIC7850; came with the scanner.
    >
    > Try to turn on debugging to see what is going on:
    >
    > % SANE_DEBUG_DLL=128 SANE_DEBUG_COOLSCAN=128 scanimage -L
    >
    > This should print all debug info available from the dll and the
    > coolscan backend.
    >
    > My initial guess is that the backend do not recognize the SCSI name
    > returned from the scanner. The next guess is problems finding the
    > SCSI device, but if this is running on Linux, it should work out of
    > the box. :-)
    >
    > The Gtk error is a result of xscanimage not finding any devices. If
    > anyone know why this error message gets printed when this happends,
    > and even better - know how to get rid of it, please send us patches.
    > It is very confusing for new users. :-)
    > --
    > ##> Petter Reinholdtsen <## | pere@td.org.uit.no
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