SCC wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Try specifying the exact path. Mine is /usr/local/bin/xsane Your distro is
> probably being picked up first. Remove the sane rpm from the distro.
With the help of Herr Rauch, I was able to get everything
up and running by changing a line in /etc/ld.so.conf from
"/usr/local/lib/sane" to "/usr/local/lib" - after that, all progs
built, installed and ran perfectly.
Greetings,
jjs
>
>
> Steve.
>
> On Fri, 09 Feb 2001, you wrote:
> > I have an HP 5200C usb scanner, which I'm trying to use in Linux.
> >
> > I installed sane-backends 1.0.4 and sane-frontends 1.0.4, and the scanner
> > is recognized by the kernel - usbview shows it, and "scanimage -L" says:
> >
> > device `hp:/dev/usb/scanner0' is a Hewlett-Packard MODELx flatbed scanner
> > default device is `hp:/dev/usb/scanner0'
> >
> > I can scan an image from the command line with scanimage, but I was really
> > hoping for something a bit more convenient. I can't use xscanimage or
> > xsane, since they don't appear to recognize the scanner, even though
> > scanimage does.
> >
> > When I run "xscanimage", it says:
> >
> > [xscanimage] No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something
> > different, check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and
> > detected by the find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please read
> > the documentation which came with this software (README, FAQ,
> > manpages).
> >
> > When I run "xscanimage hp:/dev/usb/scanner0" the dialog box says:
> >
> > "Failed to open "hp:/dev/usb/scanner0": Device Busy"
> >
> > I get similar results from xsane-0.71.
> >
> > However, I found an alpha release of something called "quiteinsane",
> > which, though it has some rough edges, happily detects and uses the
> > scanner.
> >
> > I'd love to know what's wrong with xscanimage and xsane, however.
> >
> > Any clues?
> >
> > jjs
> >
> >
> >
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