Re: scanimage works, but not xscanimage or xsane

From: J Sloan (jjs@toyota.com)
Date: Tue Feb 13 2001 - 13:56:21 PST

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    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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