On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 10:02:21AM -0700, Robert N. Eaton wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I am by no means a developer, or even a coder. I'm not exactly a Linux
> newbie, either: I've been playing around with various distributions for
> the past three years. My current distribution is Caldera Open Desktop
> 2.4, using the 2.2.14 kernel, sane-1.0.1, gimp-1.1, and
> gtk+-devel-1.2.6.
>
> My computer is a generic PII 233Mh, 64M RAM, dual-boot with Win95 in
> hda1 and Linux on hdb1. I replaced my parallel port scanner recently
> when I saw on sale a UMAX Astra 1220s for $49.95. (And probably worth
> every penny!) According to Mostang's documentation it is fully supported
> without comment. Since I read that the UMAX scsi controller cards might
> not be supported under Linux, I purchased an Adaptec 2906 controller
> card. The scanner and card work well under Win95.
>
> Nevertheless, I'm beginning to think that Scanner Access Now Easy is a
> cruel joke. Easy for whom? I know that the Linux side of the computer
> recognizes the scanner and card, because when I open System Information
> (K-> Settings-> Information-> SCSI) it states:
>
> Attached Devices:
> Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 04 Lun: 00
> Vendor: UMAX Model: Astra 1221s Rev: V1.3
> Type: Scanner ANSI SCSI revision: 02
>
> But from there I don't know how to get sane up and running and talking
> to the scanner.
Perhaps you could explain more what you are trying to do?
How far along have you gotten?
Is SANE installed?
The most common initial problem would be with permissions. Are you able
to access your scanner when logged in as root?
Cheers,
Rod
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