Bob van der Poel wrote:
> Hope this makes sense... I just used to have a scaner in the scsi dept.
> Recently added an ide-cdburner which needs the fake-scsi stuff to run.
>
> Due to this I had to change the scanner scsi device from sga to sgb.
> Now, I have:
>
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Jul 13 13:13 scanner -> sgb
> crw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 21, 0 May 5 1998 sga
> crw-rw---- 1 root scanner 21, 1 May 5 1998 sgb
>
> and all works fine. Only problem is that when xsane starts up it lists 2
> scanners and I have to pick one of them. The 2 it lists are
>
> microtek:/dev/scanner
> microtek:/dev/sgb
>
> These are the same devices! Besides, when I had dev/scanner-->sga it
> never was a problem. Can someone tell me what's going on?
>
> Also, find-scanner reports:
>
> find-scanner: found scanner " Scanner 1.80" at device /dev/scanner
> find-scanner: found scanner " Scanner 1.80" at device /dev/sg1
> find-scanner: found scanner " Scanner 1.80" at device /dev/sgb
>
> I'm not sure what the sg[0-9] entries are for, but they are links to
> sg[a-h].
xsane looks for all devices listed in the config file of the backend.
The backend normally looks for /dev/sg* and /dev/scanner
If you set a link from /dev/sgb to /dev/scanner xsane _must_ find
a scanner at /dev/sgb and /dev/scanner.
Simply remove /dev/scanner
Bye
Oliver
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